Fact Check Posts – Page 22

Donald Trump
stated on July 19, 2020 in an interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace:

“We have one of the lowest mortality rates in the world” from COVID-19.

By Louis Jacobson • July 20, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on April 16, 2020 in a media website:

"New study: The flu vaccine is 'significantly associated' with an increased risk of coronavirus"

By Emily Venezky • July 16, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on July 14, 2020 in a Facebook post:

"Wrong" COVID-19 case count by Orlando Health "explains the 'outbreak' in Florida."

By Tom Kertscher • July 16, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on June 26, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“The Supreme Court ruled today NO VOTING BY MAIL !!!”

By Chris Nichols • July 15, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on July 9, 2020 in a post on Facebook:

“No other country” is having a “second wave” of COVID-19 “because they are not trying to unseat a President in November.”

By Tom Kertscher • July 14, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on July 9, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“The CDC may have to stop calling COVID-19 an ‘epidemic’ due to a remarkably low death rate.”

By Tom Kertscher • July 13, 2020

Melissa Melendez
stated on July 9, 2020 in a tweet:

“There is no science or data to suggest that kids are at risk from COVID.”

By Chris Nichols • July 10, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on July 2, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“People are starting to enter ERs with fungal lung infections from wearing masks!!"

By Chris Nichols • July 6, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on June 29, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“Oklahoma 100% coronavirus test rate after Trump Tulsa rally.”

By Tom Kertscher • July 2, 2020

Chris Kapenga
stated on June 29, 2020 in a TV interview:

“The (COVID-19) cases are going up, but it's because the testing is going up.”

By Eric Litke • July 2, 2020

Viral image
stated on June 17, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“Four kids who took the coronavirus vaccine died immediately.”

By Madison Czopek • July 1, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on June 18, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“OSHA says masks don't work” to reduce COVID-19 transmission “and violate OSHA oxygen levels.”

By Tom Kertscher • June 25, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on June 23, 2020 in a tweet:

COVID-19 cases are “up only because of our big number testing.”

By Louis Jacobson • June 24, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on June 17, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Police officer is “the occupation with the highest suicide rate of any profession.”

By Tom Kertscher • June 24, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on June 18, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Gov. Gavin Newsom “has no legal authority” to make wearing face coverings mandatory in California.

By Chris Nichols • June 24, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on June 14, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“Six months before the COVID ‘plandemic,’ Bill Gates had negotiated a $100 billion contact tracing deal with (the) Democratic congressman sponsor of bill.”

By Tom Kertscher • June 22, 2020

Mike Pence
stated on June 15, 2020 in remarks at the White House:

"In a very real sense, (Oklahoma has) flattened the curve. ... The number of cases in Oklahoma — it's declined precipitously."

By Louis Jacobson • June 16, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on June 8, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Wearing masks for the coronavirus “decreases oxygen intake, increases toxin inhalation, shuts down immune system, increases virus risk, scientifically inaccurate, effectiveness not studied.”

By Tom Kertscher • June 12, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on May 26, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Italy “went against the WHO's ‘law’” against COVID-19 autopsies and “discovered covid is not a virus, but a bacterium” that “clots the blood and reduces the oxygen saturation.”

By Emily Venezky • May 28, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on May 16, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Says a warning label on a box of disposable masks shows that they are ineffective at protecting against the spread of COVID-19.

By Samantha Putterman • May 21, 2020

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