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Latest Fact-Checks In Public Health

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Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 22, 2020 a Facebook post:
The existence of a canine coronavirus vaccine casts doubt on statements that there isn’t one for humans.
False
By Samantha Putterman • May 1, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 27, 2020 a Facebook post:
The CDC recommends that only people with COVID-19 symptoms should wear masks.
False
By Tom Kertscher • May 1, 2020
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on April 22, 2020 a post on Facebook:
“President Trump just announced that the ‘biological’ lab in Wuhan where the COVID-19 virus was created was ‘funded’ by President Barak (sp) Hussein Obama in 2015 to the tune of $3,800,000 American dollars!”
False
By Jon Greenberg • April 30, 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.”
Mostly True
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.”
Mostly True
By Meghan Hall, Hannah Roesch • April 29, 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.”
True
By Julia Schneider, Jaren Holmes • April 29, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 24, 2020 an image:
“Ultraviolet Radiation is administered into the body as a disinfectant to kill bacteria and viruses and this has been used for a while now.”
False
By Daniel Funke • April 28, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 19, 2020 a Facebook post:
“Sweden has zero lockdown” and “is in no worse shape than Denmark or Norway,” which are in lockdown.
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • April 28, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 22, 2020 a Facebook post:
Mosquitoes can transfer COVID-19 “from person to person”
False
By Amy Sherman • April 27, 2020
Chris Larson
Chris Larson
stated on April 23, 2020 a Facebook post:
Says the April 22 jump in COVID-19 cases was related to the election.
False
By Eric Litke • April 24, 2020
Franklin Graham
Franklin Graham
stated on April 17, 2020 a Facebook post:
Even with no shutdown, Sweden has a lower COVID-19 infection rate than UK, Italy and Spain.
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • April 24, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 13, 2020 a text post:
The Gates Foundation "tested a polio vax in India between 2000 & 2017 and paralysed 496,000 children."
False
By Daniel Funke • April 23, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 10, 2020 posts on the Internet:
“The Democrats are pushing for an implanted microchip in humans, and everyone to be vaccinated.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 23, 2020
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on April 16, 2020 a statement:
“Even President Trump’s own EPA has admitted that this rule (on air pollutants) threatens to cause serious health problems including brain damage and death and to inflict billions of dollars of economic damage on our struggling economy.”
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • April 23, 2020
Lovely Warren
Lovely Warren
stated on April 8, 2020 a press conference:
Racial comparisons on coronavirus statistics in Monroe County, N.Y., show that the impact on minorities is “basically on par, a little bit up, from the population numbers,” meaning that “we don’t see that disparity as much here.”
Half-True
By Michael Hogan, Sean Mickey • April 23, 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.”
Mostly True
By Haley BeMiller • April 22, 2020
Mandy Cohen
Mandy Cohen
stated on April 20, 2020 a press conference:
"Covid-19 is now the leading cause of death in the United States."
Half-True
By Paul Specht • April 22, 2020
Wisconsin Republican Legislative leaders
Wisconsin Republican Legislative leaders
stated on April 21, 2020 a joint statement:
Wisconsin is “clearly seeing a decline in COVID infections”
Mostly False
By Eric Litke • April 21, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 10, 2020 a Facebook post:
Herd immunity is probably why California has far fewer COVID-19 deaths than New York.
False
By Tom Kertscher • April 21, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 10, 2020 a Facebook post:
Hospitals get paid more to list patients as COVID-19.
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • April 21, 2020
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