Coronavirus cases reported in Rome, Georgia.
The claim originated from a post (archived here) published by Kim Dean on February 11, 2020. It opened:, Users on social media saw this:, , The Facebook post has been fabricated. Dean repeatedly claimed in the comments section that a nurse stopped her son at the door and refused to let anyone inside the urgent care facility in Rome, Georgia., However, Redmond Urgent Care posted this note on Facebook denying that there were any cases of the coronavirus at their facilities:, , Redmond Regional Medical Center operates six locations in the Rome area, which is about 70 miles north of Atlanta., On February 10, 2020, the Rome News-Tribune reported that a local man who had been working in China had placed himself in voluntary self-quarantine. However, he showed no symptoms of the coronavirus, which has killed at least 1,113 people as of February 12, 2020, according to The New York Times., , See who is sharing it (it might even be your friends...) and leave the link in the comments.:, Lead Stories is working with the CoronaVirusFacts/DatosCoronaVirus Alliance, a coalition of more than 100 fact-checkers who are fighting misinformation related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn more about the alliance here., "Ryan Cooper, a staff writer and fact-checker for Lead Stories, is the former Director of Programming at CNN International, where he helped shape the networks daily newscasts broadcast to more than 280 million households around the world. He was based at the networks Los Angeles Bureau. There, he managed the team responsible for a three-hour nightly program,\xa0Newsroom LA.", "Formerly, he worked at the headquarters in Atlanta, and he spent four years at the London bureau. An award-winning producer, Cooper oversaw the networks Emmy Award-winning coverage of the uprising in Egypt in 2011. He also served as a supervising producer during much of the networks live reporting on the Israel-Hezbollah conflict in 2006, for which CNN received an Edward R. Murrow Award.", Lead Stories is a fact checking website that is always looking for the latest false, deceptive or\n      inaccurate stories (or media) making the rounds on the internet.\n      \n      Spotted something? Let us know!., Lead Stories is a fact checking website that is always looking for the latest false, deceptive or\n        inaccurate stories (or media) making the rounds on the internet.\n        \n        Spotted something? Let us know!.
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