A fake news alert is claiming that a student at Columbia Basin College in Pasco had contracted the coronavirus. With hundreds of people including the doctor who discovered the virus now dead, false rumors like this can only cause unnecessary panic. There are no cases of the virus in Benton or Franklin counties. If you see anything online stating otherwise, you are urged not to click on it as it is a phishing scam designed to get you to open a link.

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