IPhoto shows people falling dead on Italian streets from COVID-19.
At least one other picture in the collage in a Facebook post was also stolen. But there is no relation between these pictures and COVID-19, the formal name for the novel coronavirus., The claim is made in a post (archived here) published on Facebook on March 22, 2020. Above the collage was this alarming description and dire warning:, "This is whats happening in Italy, People are lying outside the hospital on the streets due to shortage of beds and hospital staff.Army is transporting bodies to the graveyards.", We need to really think are we doing enough in the US and are people taking the necessary precautions., , Users on social media saw this:, , There is no truth to the top picture being related to the coronavirus, as an alert poster pointed out. Rather, it was part of a remembrance project shown in the media, including The Baltimore Sun newspaper. Under the real picture in the Sun, a caption read:, People lay down in a pedestrian zone as part of an art project in remembrance of the 528 victims of the "Katzbach" Nazi concentration camp, in Frankfurt, March 24, 2014. The inmates of the Katzbach concentration camp, a part of the former Adler industrial factory, were forced into a death march to the concentration camps of Buchenwald and Dachau on March 24th 1945. Some 528 victims of Katzbach are buried at Frankfurt\s central cemetery. (Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters), This report came from the German outlet Focus Online on April 11, 2009, about the hundreds that perished in the quake and aftermath:, During the earthquake in central Italy, some buildings had collapsed like houses of cards, although they were supposed to be earthquake-proof. Now it is examined whether construction companies have botched., The public prosecutor\s office in L\Aquila has launched an investigation. It should be checked whether the applicable building regulations were complied with or whether the building was less stable due to greed. "We have an obligation to check whether some buildings were actually made of sand or steel, as several witnesses reported," said chief prosecutor Alfredo Rossini, as the La Repubblica newspaper reported on the Internet on Saturday., Numerous facilities, including a student residence and a wing of the hospital in the provincial capital LAquila, collapsed after the 6.3 magnitude earthquake on Monday . Engineers and geologists assume that buildings built according to regulations will not collapse in an earthquake of this magnitude., Firefighters had told RAI television on Friday that some of the pillars of the cleanup had collapsed as if the cement had been mixed with sand during construction., This is not to downplay the seriousness of the situation in Italy with the coronavirus. Some 59,000 cases of COVID-19 have been identified in Italy - the hardest hit country in terms of cases outside of China - and the country with the most deaths attributed to the virus with at least 5,476 fatalities so far., Here is a chart from worldometers.info showing the Italian toll as of 10 a.m. ET on March 23, 2020:, , In the United States, also as of March 23, there had been some 35,000 cases and at least 458 deaths, according to worldometers.info., There has been a great deal of false information surrounding COVID-19 on the internet since the outbreak began. We have debunked a good number of them; here are some of our debunks:, , 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., Managing Editor Eric\xa0Ferkenhoff has been a reporter, editor and professor for 27 years, working chiefly out of the Midwest and now the South. Focusing on the criminal and juvenile justice systems, education and politics, Ferkenhoff has won several journalistic and academic awards and helped start a fact-checking project at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he continues to teach advanced reporting. Ferkenhoff also writes and edits for the juvenile justice site\xa0JJIE.org., , 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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