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Latest Fact-Checks In Coronavirus

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Chain message
stated on March 16, 2020 a text
Donald Trump is “announcing tomorrow that the US is going into quarantine for the next 14 days.”
False
By Daniel Funke • March 17, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 12, 2020 a Facebook post
Says COVID-19 came to the United States in 2019.
False
March 16, 2020
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on March 12, 2020 a post on the internet
“The CDC can detain anyone with a fever — indefinitely. … Vaccination (is) a way people could get out of detention.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 16, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 12, 2020 a Facebook post
“‘The Simpsons' predicted Tom Hanks getting coronavirus in 2007.”
False
March 16, 2020
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on March 12, 2020 a story
Says Nancy Pelosi was “caught trying to include abortion funding in bill to combat coronavirus.”
False
By Samantha Putterman • March 16, 2020
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Viral image
stated on March 13, 2020 a viral image
Drinking “water a lot and gargling with warm water & salt or vinegar eliminates” the coronavirus.
False
March 16, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on March 3, 2020 a tweeted video
Video shows President Donald Trump saying COVID-19 is Democrats’ “new hoax.”
False
By Daniel Funke • March 15, 2020
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Viral image
stated on March 10, 2020 a Facebook post
Says you can monitor yourself for COVID-19 with a breath test.
False
March 13, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 7, 2020 a Facebook post
“U.S. hospitals are preparing for 96 million coronavirus infections and nearly half a million deaths, leaked documents reveal.”
False
March 13, 2020
Ainsley Earhardt
Ainsley Earhardt
stated on March 13, 2020 the Fox & Friends show
“It’s actually the safest time to fly.”
False
By Daniel Funke • March 13, 2020
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Viral image
stated on March 12, 2020 a Facebook post
Says if you donate blood, “they HAVE to test you” for coronavirus.
False
March 13, 2020
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Viral image
stated on February 27, 2020 a Facebook post
"Akira’ is a 1988 movie about an apocalyptic event taking place months before Tokyo 2020 Olympics, showing the (World Health Organization) advising Japan to postpone the Olympics because of a pandemic risk"
False
By Madison Czopek • March 13, 2020
Joy Behar
Joy Behar
stated on March 9, 2020 an episode of ABC's "The View"
“(Barack Obama) set up anti-pandemic programs in 47 vulnerable countries as a way to protect against something like the coronavirus, exactly. Do you know that Trump closed 37 of them?”
False
By Bill McCarthy • March 12, 2020
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Viral image
stated on March 12, 2020 a Facebook post
Says Tom Hanks has a volleyball to keep him company while he’s quarantined.
False
March 12, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 11, 2020 a White House speech
The health insurance industry has “agreed to waive all co-payments for coronavirus treatments.”
False
By Amy Sherman, Shefali Luthra, Shefali Luthra • March 12, 2020
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on March 11, 2020 a blog post
“NYC man drops dead in middle of street — suspected coronavirus!”
False
March 12, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 6, 2020 an image
If the coronavirus gets in your mouth, "drinking water or other liquids will WASH them down through your esophagus and into the stomach. Once there in tummy ... your stomach ACID will kill all the virus."
False
By Daniel Funke • March 11, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 9, 2020 an image
"Being exposed to the sun for two hours" kills the 2019 coronavirus.
False
By Daniel Funke • March 11, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 28, 2020 posts on social media
“Every election year has a disease” ... SARS in 2004; avian flu in 2008; swine flu in 2010; MERS in 2012; Ebola in 2014 and 2018; Zika in 2016 and the coronavirus in 2020.
False
By Emily Venezky • March 11, 2020
YouTube videos
YouTube videos
stated on February 19, 2020 a YouTube post
“The coronavirus was invented and patented in the USA and then planted in China.”
False
March 10, 2020
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