Latest Fact-Checks In Public Health

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Facebook posts
stated on May 21, 2020 a Facebook post
Says researchers found a “fabric that kills coronaviruses”
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By Eric Litke • May 30, 2020
Coalition for the Homeless
Coalition for the Homeless
stated on April 8, 2020 a newspaper interview
New York City could pay to house its homeless population in hotel rooms currently sitting vacant, but Mayor Bill de Blasio “has absolutely to this point refused to do that.”
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By Rachel Kimmel, Julia Schneider • May 13, 2020
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on April 21, 2020 a Facebook post
Says Wisconsin measures have "prevented the death of at least 300 Wisconsinites, and perhaps as many as 1,400 lives."
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By Eric Litke • May 1, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 26, 2020 a Facebook post
COVID-19 is “here to stay” and “we need to accept that and be prepared to deal with COVID long term.”
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By Eric Litke • April 29, 2020
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on April 12, 2020 a tweet
“Some states, like Montana and Nebraska, are getting more than $300,000 in federal stimulus money per reported COVID-19 case. New York is the hardest-hit state and yet we are getting only about $12,000 per case.”
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By Meghan Hall, Hannah Roesch • April 29, 2020
Tom Tiffany
Tom Tiffany
stated on April 20, 2020 a public forum
Says Department of Health Services Secretary Andrea Palm is a “career bureaucrat with no past ties to Wisconsin.”
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By Haley BeMiller • April 22, 2020
Jay Inslee
Jay Inslee
stated on April 19, 2020 an interview on ABC's "This Week"
Stay-at-home orders “actually are the law of these states.”
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By Louis Jacobson • April 21, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 19, 2020 a Facebook post
“Wisconsin is the only state where all Republicans voted against protecting its citizens.”
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By Eric Litke • March 20, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 18, 2020 an infographic
2019 coronavirus can live for "up to 3 hours in the air, up to 4 hours on copper, up to 24 hours on cardboard up to 3 days on plastic and stainless steel.”
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By Daniel Funke • March 20, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 12, 2020 a tweet
“During the 2009 swine flu outbreak, Biden made reckless comments unsupported by science & the experts. The Obama Admin had to clean up his mess & apologize for his ineptitude.”
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By Samantha Putterman • March 13, 2020
Lou Dobbs
Lou Dobbs
stated on March 2, 2020 a TV interview
The United States is “actually screening fewer people (for the coronavirus than other countries) because we don't have appropriate testing."
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By Bill McCarthy • March 4, 2020
Eric Schmitt
Eric Schmitt
stated on November 25, 2019 a roundtable
"You have literally 140 people dying every day of opioid-related overdoses."
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By Madison Czopek • December 31, 2019
Woody Thrasher
Woody Thrasher
stated on August 21, 2019 a tweet
"West Virginia is sixth overall in the average number of at-risk youth."
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By Alayna Degenhardt, Farrah Frattaroli • December 6, 2019
Mark Pocan
Mark Pocan
stated on August 19, 2019 a tweet
"In WI, over 79% of Title X patients rely on Planned Parenthood for their basic health care."
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By Mica Soellner • November 8, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 12, 2019 a speech at George Washington University
"In 2014 ... in McDowell County, W.Va., one of the poorest counties in the nation, life expectancy for men was 64 years. In Fairfax County, Va., a wealthy county, just 350 miles away, life expectancy was nearly 82 years, an 18 year differential. The life expectancy gap for women in the two counties was 12 years."
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By Kristen Uppercue, Patrick Orsagos • July 18, 2019
Creigh Deeds
Creigh Deeds
stated on June 11, 2019 radio interview.
Red-flag laws have been "shown to reduce the number of suicides by firearms."  
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By Warren Fiske • June 19, 2019
Amy Klobuchar
Amy Klobuchar
stated on June 7, 2019 a tweet
"Millions of Americans need mental health care. Yet in Iowa, there are just 64 public mental health care beds. And you see similar numbers across the country."
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By Sophie Austin • June 13, 2019
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on May 29, 2019 a radio interview.
"The e-cigarette vaping phenomenon has wiped out all the progress we’ve made on reducing youth smoking."
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By Warren Fiske • June 12, 2019
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on April 29, 2019 climate change plan
"Race is the No. 1 indicator for where toxic and polluting facilities are today."
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By Miriam Valverde • May 14, 2019
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on April 29, 2019 a cable TV news interview.
"We now have longitudinal data that shows that children born around Superfund sites have dramatically higher rates of birth defects, dramatically higher rates of autism." 
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By Shefali Luthra, Shefali Luthra • May 1, 2019
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