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Latest Fact-Checks In Public Health

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Michael Dougherty
Michael Dougherty
stated on March 12, 2020 in a tweet:
“Some states are only getting 50 tests per day, and the Utah Jazz got 58.”
True
By Bill McCarthy • March 13, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 12, 2020 in 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.”
Mostly True
By Samantha Putterman • March 13, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 7, 2020 in a Facebook post:
“U.S. hospitals are preparing for 96 million coronavirus infections and nearly half a million deaths, leaked documents reveal.”
False
By Tom Kertscher • March 13, 2020
Ainsley Earhardt
Ainsley Earhardt
stated on March 13, 2020 in the Fox & Friends show:
“It’s actually the safest time to fly.”
False
By Daniel Funke • March 13, 2020
Viral image
Viral image
stated on February 27, 2020 in 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
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on March 12, 2020 in a press conference:
Of the Trump administration’s European travel restrictions that exempt the U.K.: “Well, you can just get into the Chunnel, and you’ll be in the U.K.”
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • March 12, 2020
Joy Behar
Joy Behar
stated on March 9, 2020 in 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
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 6, 2020 in remarks to reporters:
“Anybody that wants a test (for the coronavirus) can get a test.”
Pants on Fire!
By Miriam Valverde • March 11, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 6, 2020 in 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
Chris Larson
Chris Larson
stated on March 11, 2020 in a news release:
“The coronavirus has officially reached Milwaukee County.”
False
By Eric Litke • March 11, 2020
Dr. Drew Pinsky
Dr. Drew Pinsky
stated on February 3, 2020 in a Daily Blast Live segment:
“You’re more likely to die of influenza right now” than the 2019 coronavirus.
Half-True
By Daniel Funke • March 10, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 9, 2020 in a Facebook post:
“President Trump has come into contact with a potential coronavirus sufferer!”
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • March 10, 2020
YouTube videos
YouTube videos
stated on February 19, 2020 in a YouTube post:
“The coronavirus was invented and patented in the USA and then planted in China.”
False
By Tom Kertscher • March 10, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 22, 2020 in a Facebook post:
“People Of Color May Be Immune To The Coronavirus Because Of Melanin.”
False
By Tom Kertscher • March 10, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 1, 2020 in a Facebook post:
The coronavirus is “simply the common cold.”
False
By Tom Kertscher • March 9, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 2, 2020 in a Facebook post:
“Coronavirus Hoax: Fake Virus Pandemic Fabricated to Cover-Up Global Outbreak of 5G Syndrome.”
False
By Tom Kertscher • March 9, 2020
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on February 29, 2020 in a press conference:
Speaking of an HIV outbreak in Indiana during his time as governor, says “we immediately deployed health resources.”
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • March 5, 2020
Lou Dobbs
Lou Dobbs
stated on March 2, 2020 in a TV interview:
The United States is “actually screening fewer people (for the coronavirus than other countries) because we don't have appropriate testing."
Mostly True
By Bill McCarthy • March 4, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 4, 2020 in a post on Facebook:
“Man visited Albany, N.Y. days before dying from coronavirus.”
False
By Madison Czopek • March 4, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 29, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Says President Barack Obama “waited six months to call swine flu an emergency after thousands died.”
False
By Tom Kertscher • March 4, 2020
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