Ebola Scorecard true 0% 1 Checks mostly-true 0% 5 Checks Half True 0% 2 Checks mostly-false 0% 6 Checks false 0% 6 Checks Pants on Fire 0% 4 Checks For more details, see the Principles of PolitiFact All Fact-checks for Ebola Nicholas Kristof stated on October 22, 2014 in an op-ed in the "New York Times": "All of Liberia can produce less than one-third as much electricity as the Dallas Cowboys football stadium consumes at peak times." By Jon Greenberg • October 30, 2014 Barack Obama stated on October 18, 2014 in the president's weekly national address: "You cannot get (Ebola) from just riding on a plane or bus." By Steve Contorno • October 29, 2014 Doug Muder stated on October 20, 2014 in a post on the Weekly Sift blog: Says Sen. Rand Paul’s 2011 budget "included a big cut in the CDC." By Jon Greenberg • October 27, 2014 Rand Paul stated on October 16, 2014 in an interview with a New Hampshire radio station: Ebola is "incredibly contagious," "very transmissible" and "easy to catch." By Steve Contorno • October 27, 2014 Rand Paul stated on October 15, 2014 in a speech.: "$2.4 million of the NIH dollars was spent on ‘origami’ condoms." By Sean Gorman • October 27, 2014 Darrell Issa stated on October 26, 2014 in comments on CNN's "State of the Union": Says Thomas Eric Duncan came into the United States "with an elevated temperature." By Nai Issa, Lauren Carroll • October 26, 2014 Stephanie Cutter stated on October 19, 2014 in an episode of "Meet the Press": "Money towards the Ebola vaccine is basically cut in half to what it was. More cuts are coming under the congressional sequester." October 24, 2014 Ted Cruz stated on October 19, 2014 in an interview on CNN: "Obama, instead of nominating a health professional, he nominated someone who is an anti-gun activist (for surgeon general)." By Lauren Carroll • October 23, 2014 Allen West stated on October 20, 2014 in a tweet: "U.S. troops are getting only 4 hours of Ebola training before deployment to Liberia." By Jon Greenberg • October 23, 2014 Corey Hebert stated on October 20, 2014 in an interview on MSNBC's "All in with Chris Hayes": "We've had 27 (Ebola) outbreaks around the globe and they've never spread outside of the confines of the countries that were initially affected." By Jon Greenberg • October 22, 2014 Tim Murphy stated on October 19, 2014 in an interview on Fox News Sunday: Blocking travel from countries with Ebola should be possible because President Barack Obama "has sealed off Israel in the past." By Louis Jacobson • October 21, 2014 Cory Gardner stated on October 15, 2014 in a debate: The CDC is "spending money on things like jazzercise, urban gardening and massage therapy" that could be redirected to Ebola. By Louis Jacobson • October 20, 2014 Tavis Smiley stated on October 19, 2014 in comments on ABC's "This Week": "This (Ebola) is not as bad as SARS was in 2003." By Lauren Carroll • October 19, 2014 George Will stated on October 19, 2014 in comments on "Fox News Sunday": Some doctors say Ebola can be transmitted through the air by "a sneeze or some cough." By Jon Greenberg • October 19, 2014 Glenn Beck stated on October 15, 2014 in a broadcast of the "Glenn Beck Program": "Every time somebody new gets the Ebola virus, it mutates." By Jon Greenberg • October 16, 2014 John McCain stated on October 12, 2014 in comments on CNN's "State of the Union": "We were told there would never be a case of Ebola in the United States." By Lauren Carroll • October 12, 2014 Morgan Brittany stated on October 7, 2014 in an article on the WND website: "According to a government supplier of emergency products, the Disaster Assistance Response Team was told to be prepared to be activated in the month of October for an outbreak of Ebola." By Jon Greenberg • October 8, 2014 Brit Hume stated on September 21, 2014 in a broadcast of "Fox News Sunday": Says President Barack Obama is "sending a much larger (force) " to deal with Ebola "than ISIS is getting." By Jon Greenberg • September 23, 2014 Bloggers stated on September 15, 2014 in a post on InfoWars.com: "The U.S. State Department has ordered 160,000 Hazmat suits for Ebola, prompting concerns that the federal government is anticipating the rapid spread" of the virus. By Derek Tsang • September 19, 2014 Mark Pryor stated on August 25, 2014 in a campaign ad: Says Tom Cotton "voted against preparing America for pandemics like Ebola." By Lauren Carroll • August 28, 2014 Load More Latest Articles A look back at Lie of the Year, 2009 to 2019 • December 16, 2020 Latest promises about Ebola No promises to show. Latest promises about Ebola
