Latest Fact-Checks In Coronavirus

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Rob Astorino
Rob Astorino
stated on January 20, 2022 a tweet
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s “record” includes “firing” 34,000 health care workers.
Half-True
By Tom Gaughan, Caroline Paterno • April 6, 2022
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X posts
stated on April 2, 2022 a tweet
Pfizer paid “$2.8 million bribe payment” to the FDA for COVID-19 vaccine approval.
False
April 5, 2022
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Facebook posts
stated on March 27, 2022 a Facebook post
Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins died from a COVID-19 vaccine.
False
March 29, 2022
Rebecca Kleefisch
Rebecca Kleefisch
stated on March 9, 2022 Campaign email
Says Gov. Tony Evers gave $2.4 million in COVID relief money to Planned Parenthood affiliates throughout Wisconsin “to bail them out and fund abortions."
Mostly False
By Madeline Heim • March 25, 2022
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on March 14, 2022 an article
"Documents were published confirming Moderna created the COVID-19 Virus.”
False
March 24, 2022
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Facebook posts
stated on March 16, 2022 a Facebook post
A man was arrested “for wearing a T-shirt that says ‘We The People’ and has a picture of the ‘Statue of Liberty.’”
False
March 24, 2022
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Viral image
stated on March 20, 2022 a Facebook post
Joe Biden’s announcement that the Justice Department will name a chief prosecutor for pandemic fraud means “the government is going to investigate itself.”
False
March 23, 2022
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on March 1, 2022 a video
The drug labels for the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine “were blank when they should have contained all these diseases and adverse events" listed in a confidential report.
False
March 23, 2022
Marsha Blackburn
Marsha Blackburn
stated on March 21, 2022 a Senate judiciary committee hearing
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson advocated that “each and every criminal defendant in D.C. Corrections custody should be released.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • March 22, 2022
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Facebook posts
stated on March 9, 2022 a video
"People who have had cancer in the past, they get the COVID jab and now, they're getting cancer two to three, four months later and it's the same cancer they had except much worse."
False
By Monique Curet • March 11, 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.”
True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • March 11, 2022
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on March 6, 2022 a Facebook post
“Worldwide data has confirmed the vaccinated are developing COVID vaccine-induced Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.”
Pants on Fire!
March 8, 2022
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Facebook posts
stated on March 6, 2022 a Facebook post
Dr. Anthony Fauci has not spoken or appeared publicly for several weeks.
False
March 7, 2022
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Facebook posts
stated on March 5, 2022 a Facebook post
CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said she gets COVID-19 reports from CNN.
False
March 7, 2022
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on March 2, 2022 a press conference
Wearing masks is “COVID theater” and “not doing anything.”
False
By Yacob Reyes • March 4, 2022
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Facebook posts
stated on March 1, 2022 a Facebook post
“NEW: Biden Admin. instructs Americans to social distance and wear masks in the event of a Nuclear Fallout.”
Mostly False
By Madison Czopek • March 3, 2022
David Willis
David Willis
stated on February 17, 2022 a speech
There are now zero students, staff or anyone “related to the school system” in Union County” hospitalized with COVID-19, despite harsh criticism of school COVID policy.
Half-True
By Paul Specht • March 2, 2022
Mary Felzkowski
Mary Felzkowski
stated on February 15, 2022 Public statement
“Over-vaccination causes faster mutation of the (COVID-19) virus, which causes a super virus we may not have the ability to fight off.”
False
By Madeline Heim • March 1, 2022
Wisconsin Senate Republicans
Wisconsin Senate Republicans
stated on February 2, 2022 Twitter
Gov. Tony Evers has “only gotten one-third of the money meant for COVID relief out the door. He is sitting on $930 million in ARPA funds left unspent. In fact, he still has CARES Act money from two years ago.”
Mostly True
By Madeline Heim • February 25, 2022
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Facebook posts
stated on February 21, 2022 a Facebook post
“News report accidentally reveals doctors giving ‘banned’ COVID treatment to the Queen.”
False
By Madison Czopek • February 24, 2022
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