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stated on April 21, 2020 in Facebook post:
Homeless people are immune to COVID-19
Pants on Fire!
By Laura Schulte • May 1, 2020
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on April 21, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Says Wisconsin measures have "prevented the death of at least 300 Wisconsinites, and perhaps as many as 1,400 lives."
Mostly True
By Eric Litke • May 1, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 22, 2020 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in a joint statement:
Wisconsin is “clearly seeing a decline in COVID infections”
Mostly False
By Eric Litke • April 21, 2020
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