Saint Louis schools will repeat grades k-12 due to covid-19
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A nurse at a drive up COVID-19 coronavirus testing station set up by the University of Washington Medical Center exits a tent while holding a bag containing a swab used to take a sample from the nose of a person in their car, Friday, March 13, 2020, in Seattle. UW Medicine is conducting drive-thru testing in a hospital parking garage and has screened hundreds of staff members, faculty and trainees for the COVID-19 coronavirus. U.S. hospitals are setting up triage tents, calling doctors out of retirement, guarding their supplies of face masks and making plans to cancel elective surgery as they brace for an expected onslaught of coronavirus patients. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
March 31, 2020 Thea Barrett
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Fact-Checking
During this wild time, we’re all in need of some good news. But what we’re in need of more than good news, is real good news.
So when I saw this post being shared around on my timeline, I wanted to fact check the claims in it before I shared it with my family and friends — we all have to be diligent that the information we are sharing right now is accurate because having the right information could make the difference as we fight against the coronavirus and try to stay as healthy and safe as possible.
1. China closing coronavirus hospital
The first claim is that China was able to close down its last emergency temporary coronavirus hospital as the number of new cases has diminished.
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I did a keyword search of “China closed coronavirus hospitals” to confirm this, and found this article from The Independent on March 14 — about 6 days before this post was published — stating that according to a state-run news source in China, officials there have now closed all of the temporary hospitals in Wuhan, which is where the virus originated. And this article from the New York Post states that all 16 hospitals have now been closed — all 16 received 13,000 total patients.
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This claim is legit. China has in fact closed down all of their temporary hospitals, including the ones in Wuhan. Here’s a video of doctors from that last hospital taking off their masks.
2. Coronavirus vaccine testing begins in Seattle
The post also claims that testing has begun in Seattle to develop a vaccine, “as healthy volunteer gets first shot”. There has been a lot of news going around about developing a possible vaccine for COVID-19, including a story we fact-checked here.
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