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Latest Fact-Checks In Public Health

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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 23, 2020 a tweet
COVID-19 cases are “up only because of our big number testing.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 24, 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.’"
True
By Eric Litke • June 24, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 17, 2020 a Facebook post
Police officer is “the occupation with the highest suicide rate of any profession.”
False
June 24, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 18, 2020 a Facebook post
Gov. Gavin Newsom “has no legal authority” to make wearing face coverings mandatory in California.
False
By Chris Nichols • June 24, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 14, 2020 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.”
False
June 22, 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.
True
By John Pullano • June 18, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 11, 2020 a social media post
“The CDC just confirmed a 0.2% death-rate for COVID19.”
Mostly False
By Chris Nichols • June 16, 2020
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on June 15, 2020 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."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 16, 2020
Rashida Tlaib
Rashida Tlaib
stated on June 4, 2020 a tweet
“Detroit spent $294 million on police last year, and $9 million on health.”
Mostly True
By Clara Hendrickson • June 16, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 4, 2020 a Facebook post
“N95 masks block few, if any” COVID-19 particles due to their size.
Pants on Fire!
By Eric Litke • June 15, 2020
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on May 20, 2020 a news conference
“Why did the state do that with COVID patients in nursing homes? It’s because the state followed President Trump’s CDC guidance.”
Mostly False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • June 13, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 8, 2020 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.”
False
June 12, 2020
League of Conservation Voters
League of Conservation Voters
stated on May 18, 2020 TV ad
Says Donald Trump has opposed plans to clean up “Toxic chemicals that cause cancer (that) are in the water …. (and) put Wisconsin at risk.”
Half-True
By Laura Schulte • June 12, 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.”
True
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.”
True
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.”
True
By Paul Specht • June 1, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 21, 2020 a statement
Says President Donald Trump “took more than a month to allocate Congress’ emergency funding to tribes — and only did so after tribes sued.”
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • June 1, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 21, 2020 a Facebook post
Says researchers found a “fabric that kills coronaviruses”
Mostly True
By Eric Litke • May 30, 2020
Joe Kernen
Joe Kernen
stated on May 27, 2020 an episode of CNBC's "Squawk Box"
“We’re down near the low end of per capita deaths ... Most places are at 60 deaths per 100,000. We're at 29.”
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • May 28, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 26, 2020 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.”
False
By Emily Venezky • May 28, 2020
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