Mannequins or Covid-19 patients?
By France24
17 February 2022 |
12:03 pm
Social media users are claiming that hospitals are using extremely realistic human dummies passing as fake Covid-19 patients. Their intention would be to show an increase in Covid-related hospitalisations. We sort the fact from the fake.
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