Latest Fact-Checks In Ebola

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Nicholas Kristof
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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