Latest Fact-Checks By Victoria Knight

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Manchin at Capitol

Ad targeting Manchin, AARP misses on Medicare drug price negotiations

July 25, 2022

Sen. Joe Manchin and AARP “support government price-setting schemes” to divert money from Medicare to “unrelated government programs or pad big insurers’ profits.”

Biden speaking Feb. 10, 2022, art

Biden’s blanket statement — ‘No more surprise billing’ — doesn’t quite cover it

March 1, 2022

“Millions of hardworking Americans will no longer have to worry about unexpected medical bills.”

Nancy Pelosi 2019 speaks about HR3

An ad’s charge that drug price haggling would ‘swipe $500 billion from Medicare’ is incorrect

September 28, 2021

Insurance companies and Washington bureaucrats “are working together to swipe $500 billion from Medicare to pay for Pelosi and Schumer’s out-of-control spending spree.”

Ron DeSantis at ALEC Salt Lake City 7-28-21

DeSantis’ executive order misleads about the lack of scientific support for masking in schools

August 10, 2021

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recent guidance on students and masking “lacks a well-grounded scientific justification.”

CDC coronavirus test art

CDC test can’t differentiate between COVID and the flu? That’s wrong.

July 30, 2021

CDC "will revoke the emergency use authorization" of the PCR COVID tests because those tests don't differentiate between COVID and flu viruses. "Translation: They've been…

The WHO did not reverse its position on kids and COVID-19 vaccines

June 24, 2021

“The WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION recently reversed its stance on children getting the Covid vaccine.”

Joe Biden 100 Days Speech JointCongress - speaking

Biden boasts about equitable senior COVID-19 vaccination rate by race without data to back it up

May 11, 2021

For vaccine rates among Americans 65 and older, “there’s virtually no difference between white, Black, Hispanic, Asian American.”

Biden’s criticism of Trump administration vaccine contracts too broad to be accurate

March 5, 2021

“When I came into office, the prior administration had contracted for not nearly enough vaccine to cover adults in America.”

Becerra’s a longtime single-payer supporter. That doesn’t mean it will happen if he’s HHS secretary.

March 1, 2021

“Becerra supports Bernie’s government takeover of your health care, eliminating your employer-provided coverage.”

Conservative talk show host falsely claims ‘science’ supports a return to normal now

February 19, 2021

The science says “open the schools, stop wearing masks outside, and everyone at low risk should start living normal lives."

Scalise’s claim that unauthorized immigrants are getting priority for vaccination misses the point

February 8, 2021

“Now (Biden) is saying that people who came here illegally can jump ahead of other Americans who have been waiting to get the vaccine.”

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