The Latest Fact Checks from the International Fact Checking Network (IFCN) 03/29/2020

The code of principles of the International Fact-Checking Network IFCN at Poynter is a series of commitments organizations abide by to promote excellence in fact-checking. The following fact checks come from IFCN fact checkers. (D. Van Zandt)

	Claim by Facebook posts: Says the CDC now says that the coronavirus can survive on surfaces for up to 17 days. PolitiFact rating: False There’s no evidence COVID-19 can survive on surfaces up to 17 days
	Claim by LifeSite News: “If we want to protect ourselves from the coronavirus, we must back away from all the climate change efforts we’ve been making” Health Feedback rating: Flawed Reasoning Global warming and the COVID-19 pandemic are unrelated issues: one will not protect us from the other
	Claim via Social Media: Does a video show workers installing 5G, the fifth-generation wireless technology, at a school in Lindale, Texas? Lead Stories rating: False Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show 5G Installation At Texas School
	Claim via Social Media: Social media users have been sharing an image online that purports to be a screen grab of a news report claiming that the coronavirus has been found in crab legs. Reuters Fact Check rating: False False claim: Coronavirus has been found in crab legs
	Claim: Is the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention planning, in the next 10 days, to change guidance and advise Americans to wear masks in everyday life?  Lead Stories rating: False Fact Check: CDC Is NOT Scheduled To Recommend Masks For Everyday Life

International Fact Checks

	Claim by Multiple FB netizens: Photo shows army trucks in Italy carrying bodies of fatalities from coronavirus disease or COVID-19 Vera Files rating: False VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Posts showing ‘Italian army’ moving COVID-19 corpses FALSELY use photos from France
	Claim by Multiple sources: Drone shoots fireworks at Malaysians violating coronavirus lockdown AFP Fact Check rating: False This video has circulated online about a prank staged in Brazil in 2019
	Claim by Mzwandile Masina, mayor of Ekurhuleni: Interferon alpha-2b is a vaccine for the new coronavirus. Africa Check rating: Incorrect South African mayor incorrect about Covid-19 ‘vaccine’

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