Latest Fact-Checks In Coronavirus

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Kevin Brady
Kevin Brady
stated on December 8, 2022 a statement
Joe Biden’s $36 billion for a union pension fund is “the largest private pension bailout in American history.”
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December 14, 2022
Kathy Hochul
Kathy Hochul
stated on February 27, 2022 a news conference
“We are No. 1 among all large states in having fully vaccinated teenagers. We are No. 2 in all large states for having fully vaccinated five- to 11- year-olds.”
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By Jill Terreri Ramos • March 11, 2022
Roger Williams
Roger Williams
stated on December 2, 2021 an email
"The number of COVID-19 deaths recorded so far in 2021 has surpassed the total for 2020."
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By Nusaiba Mizan • January 18, 2022
Jen Psaki
Jen Psaki
stated on January 10, 2022 a White House press briefing
“You are 17 times more likely to go to the hospital if you’re not vaccinated, 20 times more likely to die.”
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By Madison Czopek • January 12, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on October 13, 2021 a Facebook post
"Southwest Airlines announce they will no longer terminate employees over the mandate."
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By Andy Nguyen • October 22, 2021
Kathryn Moffett Bradford
Kathryn Moffett Bradford
stated on September 1, 2021 comments at a WVU faculty meeting
“If you look at the hospitalizations at Ruby Memorial in West Virginia, and around the country, 90% to 95% of those hospitalized are unvaccinated.”
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By Abigail Mulhern, Emma Copley • October 5, 2021
Viral image
Viral image
stated on August 18, 2021 in a photo in a reddit thread
A photo shows two COVID-19 patients lying on the floor awaiting treatment in Florida.
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By Amy Sherman • August 20, 2021
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on May 18, 2021 an interview
“We now have more job openings than we do people who are on unemployment. We have 60% more job openings today than we did the month before the pandemic hit the state of Texas.”
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By Brandon Mulder • May 21, 2021
Zach Wahls
Zach Wahls
stated on April 8, 2021 a weekly newsletter
“The federal American Rescue Plan will purchase more food from farmers for distribution."
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April 22, 2021
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on March 14, 2021 TV interview
“There’s still (only) a handful of school districts" doing no in-person instruction.
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By Madeline Heim • March 29, 2021
Gordon Hintz
Gordon Hintz
stated on February 5, 2021 TV interview
“We know mask mandates work. There’s enough evidence out there between counties that have done it and counties that haven’t."
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By Haley BeMiller • February 12, 2021
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 22, 2021 a tweet
Says Joe Biden “has issued more executive fiats than anyone in such a short period of time, ever, more than Obama, more than Trump, more than anyone.”
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By Miriam Valverde • January 27, 2021
Pat Toomey
Pat Toomey
stated on January 19, 2021 a hearing
“There will be several thousand dollars in payments going to families with six-figure incomes who’ve had no income interruption whatsoever.”
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By Jessica Calefati • January 21, 2021
Kirk Cox
Kirk Cox
stated on January 13, 2021 a speech.
Virginia ranks “in the bottom third of states” in administering the COVID-19 vaccine.
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By Warren Fiske • January 20, 2021
Pat Toomey
Pat Toomey
stated on December 27, 2020 an interview
“In my state, as in many other states, we have governors who are closing down businesses again.”
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By Jessica Calefati • December 30, 2020
Mike Gallagher
Mike Gallagher
stated on December 7, 2020 a tweet
"New data shows in-person learning isn't driving spikes in cases."
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By Eric Litke • December 18, 2020
JB Pritzker
JB Pritzker
stated on November 17, 2020 remarks at a news conference
“Republican elected officials, a network of propaganda publications in the state and some radio shock jocks” were spreading “a lie” about his daughter breaking COVID-19 restrictions.
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By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • December 6, 2020
Mandy Cohen
Mandy Cohen
stated on December 1, 2020 a press conference
Says COVID-19 has killed more North Carolinians in a year than the flu has in 10 years.
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By Paul Specht • December 4, 2020
Roy Cooper
Roy Cooper
stated on October 14, 2020 a debate
Says Dan Forest has “missed almost half of the Board of Education meetings during the pandemic."
True
By Paul Specht • October 30, 2020
Roy Cooper
Roy Cooper
stated on October 14, 2020 a debate
Georgia has “almost 100,000 more (COVID-19) cases, almost twice as many deaths and almost 600 more nursing home deaths than North Carolina.”
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By Paul Specht • October 15, 2020
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