Latest Fact-Checks In Coronavirus

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Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on October 4, 2020 a Facebook post
“Wisconsin Republicans have not passed a single bill in 6 months.”
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By Eric Litke • October 7, 2020
Chris Larson
Chris Larson
stated on September 23, 2020 a tweet
“(Republicans) have the power to overturn the (state of emergency) order by joint resolution and they refuse to do it.”
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By Eric Litke • September 25, 2020
Caleb Rowden
Caleb Rowden
stated on September 4, 2020 a post on Medium
“Over three months after receiving CARES Act relief funds from the state, the county has still not made those dollars available to help struggling Mid-Missourians.”
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By Paul Schloesser • September 18, 2020
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on July 30, 2020 an interview
Says the U.S. Senate is “dominated by millionaires” and that he is “not one of them.”
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By Jessica Calefati • August 13, 2020
M.J. Hegar
M.J. Hegar
stated on July 22, 2020 a speech
Says 1 in 5 Texans did not have health insurance coverage before the pandemic, and now “nearly 1 in 3 Texans under the age of 65 don’t have access to health care insurance.”
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By Madlin Mekelburg • July 30, 2020
Public Citizen
Public Citizen
stated on June 29, 2020 a tweet
“Taxpayers spent $70,000,000 to develop this drug ( remdesivir)."
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By Madeline Heim • July 23, 2020
Chris Hayes
Chris Hayes
stated on July 7, 2020 a TV segment
"Higher education is one of America's strongest export sectors. Over 1 million international students studied at American universities, (in the) 2018-19 school year. They contributed over $40 billion to the economy.”
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By Bill McCarthy • July 10, 2020
Dan Forest
Dan Forest
stated on June 22, 2020 a tweet
"North Carolina is one of four states" that hasn't opened gyms.
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By Paul Specht • June 25, 2020
Priorities USA Action
Priorities USA Action
stated on June 22, 2020 a digital ad
Says President Trump said coronavirus testing makes the U.S. look bad, "so I said to my people, ‘Slow the testing down.’"
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By Eric Litke • June 24, 2020
Monica Wallace
Monica Wallace
stated on June 8, 2020 a newspaper interview
Significantly more people died of Covid-19 in two months than died of overdoses all of last year or the year before.
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By John Pullano • June 18, 2020
Desiree Rogers
Desiree Rogers
stated on June 10, 2020 an interview on CNN
In COVID-19 crisis, “only 20% of African Americans had jobs where they could work from home.”
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By Jon Greenberg • June 16, 2020
George Borrello
George Borrello
stated on May 11, 2020 a press release
“Infection rates in Allegany, Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties have consistently been among the lowest in the state.”
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By Michael Hogan, Sean Mickey • June 12, 2020
Glenn Grothman
Glenn Grothman
stated on May 21, 2020 news release
“Research illustrates a clear correlation between vitamin D deficiencies and (higher) COVID-19 mortality rates.”
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By Haley BeMiller • June 8, 2020
Darren Jackson
Darren Jackson
stated on May 27, 2020 a tweet
“Two-thirds of Americans disapprove of Donald Trump not wearing a face mask in public.”
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By Paul Specht • June 1, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 5, 2020 a Facebook post
Says gloves shouldn’t be worn in public because “if you are wearing the same set of gloves all over town you are only spreading germs everywhere you go.”
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By Eric Litke • May 13, 2020
Jamie Nadler
Jamie Nadler
stated on April 14, 2020 a newspaper interview
“Small trials” to test convalescent plasma therapy for coronavirus patients “seem to have had some degree of success.”
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By Julia Schneider • April 29, 2020
Veronica Escobar
Veronica Escobar
stated on April 22, 2020 an interview
Says Texas “either is near the bottom or at the very bottom when it comes to testing per capita.”
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By Madlin Mekelburg • April 24, 2020
Jay Chaudhuri
Jay Chaudhuri
stated on April 10, 2020 an op-ed
North Carolina is "in the small minority of states that requires an absentee ballot to be signed by two witnesses or a notary public."
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By Paul Specht • April 23, 2020
Levar Stoney
Levar Stoney
stated on April 10, 2020 a radio interview.
Virginia has “lagged behind other states when it comes to (covid-19) testing.”
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By Warren Fiske • April 22, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on April 15, 2020 comments at a virtual town hall meeting
“Until this week, they [OSHA] weren’t even enforcing these guidelines [for coronavirus]. Still today, OSHA is not specifying which rules employees must follow or how to keep their workers safe and healthy.”
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By Victoria Knight • April 22, 2020
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