Snopes.com - "Wolf Mountain," a vaccine-related blood clot, NY hospitals and unvaccinated parents, and a sobering COVID-19 statistic

​ THURSDAY EDITION Snopes Debunker 7 October 2021 Tonight: "Wolf Mountain," a vaccine-related blood clot, NY hospitals and unvaccinated parents, and a sobering COVID-19 statistic ​ Is the ‘Wolf Mountain’ in Norway Real? A picture supposedly showing a mountain range resembling a howling wolf is often circulated online as if it shows a real-world location in Norway.  Dan Evon reports. Read More URGENT: Save Our Snopes Dear Debunker readers, Four years ago, we launched a GoFundMe campaign to fight off legal threats, SLAPP lawsuits, and a takeover attempt by hostile shareholders. Many of you stood up and helped, and we cannot tell you how much we appreciate it. We thought we’d have good news to share with you by now, but that is unfortunately not the case. Although every major court ruling has been in our favor so far, the point of these lawsuits has been — always — to bleed Snopes dry. Now, on the verge of trial, the years of constant legal battles have your favorite fact-checkers in need of rescue. That’s why we’re launching one more campaign to Save Our Snopes. Will you help us? Contribute Fact Checks and Original Reporting Did Seattle Woman Die from Rare Blood Clotting Condition After COVID Vax? An obituary for Jessica Berg Wilson, who died after receiving the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, went viral online. Read Story. Are NY Hospitals Not Letting Unvaccinated Parents Take Their Newborn Babies Home? Current research says that the risk of a newborn getting COVID-19 from a parent is low. Read Story. Have More Americans Died from COVID-19 Than from All Foreign Conflicts? Another way to put 700,000 deaths into perspective: This is more than the population of Washington D.C. Read Story. View Latest Fact Checks Entertainment Rumors, legends, and lore about Hollywood, the entertainment industry, and its many stars. Read More News Tanzanian Abdulrazak Gurnah Awarded Nobel Literature Prize The Swedish Academy said the award was in recognition of Gurnah's “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.” Read More Taylor Hits Walk-Off HR, Dodgers Deck Cards 3-1 in WC Game One big swing by Chris Taylor sent the Los Angeles Dodgers soaring and the St. Louis Cardinals crashing. Read More 18 Ex-NBA Players Charged in $4M Health Care Fraud Scheme Eighteen former NBA players have been charged with defrauding the league’s health and welfare benefit plan out of about $4 million. Read More

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