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Nicholas Kristof
stated on October 22, 2014 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."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • October 30, 2014

Barack Obama
stated on October 18, 2014 the president's weekly national address:

"You cannot get (Ebola) from just riding on a plane or bus."

Mostly True

By Steve Contorno • October 29, 2014

Doug Muder
stated on October 20, 2014 a post on the Weekly Sift blog:

Says Sen. Rand Paul’s 2011 budget "included a big cut in the CDC."

True

By Jon Greenberg • October 27, 2014

Rand Paul
stated on October 16, 2014 an interview with a New Hampshire radio station:

Ebola is "incredibly contagious," "very transmissible" and "easy to catch."

Mostly False

By Steve Contorno • October 27, 2014

Rand Paul
stated on October 15, 2014 a speech.:

"$2.4 million of the NIH dollars was spent on ‘origami’ condoms."

Mostly True

By Sean Gorman • October 27, 2014

Darrell Issa
stated on October 26, 2014 comments on CNN's "State of the Union":

Says Thomas Eric Duncan came into the United States "with an elevated temperature."

False

By Nai Issa, Lauren Carroll • October 26, 2014

Stephanie Cutter
stated on October 19, 2014 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."

Mostly True

By Katie Sanders • October 24, 2014

Ted Cruz
stated on October 19, 2014 an interview on CNN:

"Obama, instead of nominating a health professional, he nominated someone who is an anti-gun activist (for surgeon general)."

False

By Lauren Carroll • October 23, 2014

Allen West
stated on October 20, 2014 a tweet:

"U.S. troops are getting only 4 hours of Ebola training before deployment to Liberia."

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • October 23, 2014

Corey Hebert
stated on October 20, 2014 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."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • October 22, 2014

Tim Murphy
stated on October 19, 2014 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."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • October 21, 2014

Cory Gardner
stated on October 15, 2014 a debate:

The CDC is "spending money on things like jazzercise, urban gardening and massage therapy" that could be redirected to Ebola.

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • October 20, 2014

Tavis Smiley
stated on October 19, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week":

"This (Ebola) is not as bad as SARS was in 2003."

Mostly False

By Lauren Carroll • October 19, 2014

George Will
stated on October 19, 2014 comments on "Fox News Sunday":

Some doctors say Ebola can be transmitted through the air by "a sneeze or some cough."

False

By Jon Greenberg • October 19, 2014

Glenn Beck
stated on October 15, 2014 a broadcast of the "Glenn Beck Program":

"Every time somebody new gets the Ebola virus, it mutates."

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • October 16, 2014

John McCain
stated on October 12, 2014 comments on CNN's "State of the Union":

"We were told there would never be a case of Ebola in the United States."

False

By Lauren Carroll • October 12, 2014

Morgan Brittany
stated on October 7, 2014 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."

Pants on Fire!

By Jon Greenberg • October 8, 2014

Brit Hume
stated on September 21, 2014 a broadcast of "Fox News Sunday":

Says President Barack Obama is "sending a much larger (force) " to deal with Ebola "than ISIS is getting."

False

By Jon Greenberg • September 23, 2014

Bloggers
stated on September 15, 2014 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.

Half-True

By Derek Tsang • September 19, 2014

Mark Pryor
stated on August 25, 2014 a campaign ad:

Says Tom Cotton "voted against preparing America for pandemics like Ebola."

Mostly False

By Lauren Carroll • August 28, 2014

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