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Latest Fact-Checks In Public Health

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David Jolly
David Jolly
stated on June 11, 2026 in a speech:
Florida is “49th in avoidable hospital costs.”
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By Samantha Putterman • June 24, 2026
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on May 5, 2024 in X, formerly Twitter:
“When I worked on the Affordable Care Act, I wrote the amendment that allows all young people to stay on their parents’ health insurance until they turn 26. Overnight, millions of young Americans got health care.”
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By Madeline Heim • May 17, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 22, 2024 in in a campaign reception:
If you went “anywhere in the world,” you could get a prescription filled for 40% to 60% less than it costs in the U.S.
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By Samantha Putterman • March 4, 2024
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on February 1, 2024 in Facebook post:
“Big drug companies charge as little as $7 for an inhaler overseas and nearly $500 for the exact same one here in the US.”
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By D.L. Davis • February 23, 2024
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 19, 2023 in a press release.:
“Tens of millions of Americans live in communities where they cannot find a doctor while others have to wait months to be seen.”
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By Michelle Andrews • July 28, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 27, 2023 in a speech on extreme heat:
“The No. 1 weather-related killer is heat. 600 people die annually from its effects, more than from floods, hurricanes and tornadoes in America combined.”
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By Louis Jacobson • July 28, 2023
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on April 5, 2023 in a tweet:
“Fentanyl is the leading cause of death for Americans 18-45.”
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By Aarón Torres • April 24, 2023
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on March 10, 2023 in a news release:
Sullivan County “has the highest opioid death rate in all of New York state” yet “it’s the only county in the Hudson Valley not included in the federal High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area” program.
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By Conor Amendola • April 4, 2023
Walgreens
Walgreens
stated on March 6, 2023 in a statement:
Walgreens’ position “has always been” to “dispense Mifepristone in any jurisdiction where it is legally permissible to do so.”
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By Samantha Putterman • March 15, 2023
Elise Stefanik
Elise Stefanik
stated on February 3, 2023 in a news release:
New York City Mayor Eric Adams proposes to “ban chocolate milk.”
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By Cameron Carr, Marnique O. Panepento • March 8, 2023
Robin Vos
Robin Vos
stated on January 19, 2023 in Speech:
In Wisconsin, even multimillionaires can be on BadgerCare "because we don't even ask people what their income level is to qualify for free health care."
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By Madeline Heim • February 9, 2023
Raphael Warnock
Raphael Warnock
stated on October 14, 2022 in a debate:
“Black women are 3 to 4 times more likely to die (from maternal mortality) even when they have the insurance and the income.”
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By Louis Jacobson • October 17, 2022
Sarah Godlewski
Sarah Godlewski
stated on May 8, 2022 in Newspaper opinion piece:
"Fifty-four percent of Wisconsinites live in a child care desert."
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By Alan Hovorka • July 20, 2022
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on May 25, 2022 in a floor speech:
“The leading cause of death among children is a firearm.”
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By Jill Terreri Ramos • June 4, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 18, 2022 in a Facebook post:
“The Red Cross sells your donated blood to hospitals for $150 and then that hospital charges you thousands for a blood transfusion.”
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By Madison Czopek • April 28, 2022
Pramila Jayapal
Pramila Jayapal
stated on August 30, 2021 in an Instagram post:
“The average hospital stay for a case of COVID-19 costs about $17,064. The vaccine is free.”
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By Miriam Valverde • September 2, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 12, 2021 in a Facebook post:
"100 Sailors at sea. All vaxxed. All with COVID (seven) weeks following deployment."
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By Andy Nguyen • August 19, 2021
Viral image
Viral image
stated on July 29, 2021 in a tweet:
“George Washington mandated smallpox vaccines for the Continental Army.”
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By Ciara O'Rourke • July 30, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 21, 2021 in a CNN town hall:
“Ten thousand people have recently died. 9,950 of them, thereabouts, are people who hadn’t been vaccinated."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 22, 2021
Jill Underly
Jill Underly
stated on April 11, 2021 in TV interview:
For mitigating COVID-19 spread, “masks (are) the number one way to do so."
Mostly True
By D.L. Davis • April 23, 2021
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