Coronavirus: Trump is selling coronavirus coins and other claims fact-checked
We're fact-checking the week's most popular dubious claims and bringing together the work of BBC journalists investigating coronavirus disinformation.A website called the White House Gift Shop has caused anger by selling coins"commemorating" the Covid-19 outbreak for $100 each.But the White House Gift Shop is a privately run online store with no direct connection to the White House or the Trump administration.The coins, however, do exist and are being sold by the store.
The video of a press conference, broadcast on a local TV station in California, was viewed millions of times on YouTube and Facebook. It was Tweeted by Elon Musk, who has 33 million followers and is becomingIn the video Dr Daniel Erickson and Dr Artin Messihi argue for an end to the lockdown based on the data they have collected from their private clinics. They draw sweeping conclusions from their unrepresentative sample, and claim the flu is similar in prevalence and death rates.
You certainly can't do it from the limited data you get from the people who were tested in a few clinics. On Monday, as the video garnered more views, two professional medical associations, the American College of Emergency Physicians and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine, issuedThe medical associations said the conclusions reached in the doctors' video were inconsistent with current science and epidemiology regarding Covid-19, adding:"It appears these two individuals are releasing biased, non-peer-reviewed data to advance their personal financial interests without regard for the...
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