Here is an explicit joint distribution, for 0<p<0.8: assign mass (1+p)e−p−p at (0,0), mass p(1−e−p) at (1,0), mass pe−p at (1,1), and mass e−ppk/k! at (0,k) for k≥2; all other masses are zero. These are nonnegative: the first is decreasing in p, and at p=0.8 it is still positive. Summing over rows and columns gives a Bernoulli distribution with mean p and a Poisson distribution with mean p, so the joint mass sums to one.
Only (1,1) contributes to the mixed first moment, giving E[XY]=pe−p and the covariance above. The strictly decreasing function e−p−p has a unique zero in (0,0.8), approximately 0.567143. At that parameter the variables are uncorrelated. They are nevertheless dependent, because P(X=1∣Y=1)=1 whereas P(X=1)=p<1. The Bernoulli independence from zero covariance result requires both variables to be Bernoulli and does not apply here.
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