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Latest Fact-Checks In Coronavirus

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Laura Ingraham
Laura Ingraham
stated on December 8, 2020 a TV handoff
"You know what the biggest lie is, is that restaurants are spreaders of COVID. There's no science for that."
False
By Bill McCarthy • December 10, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on December 6, 2020 a Facebook post
“40 years of research, and no vaccine for HIV. At least 100 years of research and no vaccine for cancer. Ongoing research and no vaccine for the common cold. Now in less than a year, there's a vaccine for COVID-19?”
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • December 10, 2020
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on December 2, 2020 a blog post
“Head of Pfizer research: Covid vaccine is female sterilization.”
False
December 10, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on December 8, 2020 a Facebook post
Images that show a 90-year-old UK woman receiving the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine appeared online in a CNN news story in October.
False
By Samantha Putterman • December 9, 2020
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on December 6, 2020 an article on GreenMedInfo.com
"The FDA knows that rushed-to-market COVID-19 vaccines may cause a wide range of life-threatening side effects, including death."
Mostly False
By Daniel Funke • December 9, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on December 3, 2020 an interview with CNN
"People have lost faith in the ability of the vaccine to work. Already, the numbers are really staggeringly low."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • December 8, 2020
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Viral image
stated on December 3, 2020 a post on Instagram
“The first randomized controlled trial of more than 6,000 individuals to assess the effectiveness of surgical face masks against SARS-CoV-2 infection found masks did not statistically significantly reduce the incidence of infection."
Mostly False
By Madison Czopek • December 7, 2020
Duey Stroebel
Duey Stroebel
stated on December 3, 2020 Twitter
“CDC admits old ‘science’ was wrong” on COVID-19 quarantine guidance.
False
By Madeline Heim • December 7, 2020
JB Pritzker
JB Pritzker
stated on November 17, 2020 remarks at a news conference
“Republican elected officials, a network of propaganda publications in the state and some radio shock jocks” were spreading “a lie” about his daughter breaking COVID-19 restrictions.
True
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • December 6, 2020
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Viral image
stated on December 1, 2020 a Facebook post
China recovered from COVID-19 “without a vaccine.”
False
December 4, 2020
Mandy Cohen
Mandy Cohen
stated on December 1, 2020 a press conference
Says COVID-19 has killed more North Carolinians in a year than the flu has in 10 years.
True
By Paul Specht • December 4, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on November 30, 2020 a Facebook post
“Masks will kill quite a few people, it’s well known that they reduce blood oxygen levels and those with respiratory and cardiac disorders will die.”
False
By Miriam Valverde • December 3, 2020
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on October 16, 2020 a blog post
The coronavirus pandemic is “effectively over” in the United Kingdom and “there is absolutely no need for vaccines.”
Pants on Fire!
By Bill McCarthy • December 2, 2020
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on November 30, 2020 a press conference
“The states that are locked down are increasing at twice the rate we are” in Florida
Half-True
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • December 2, 2020
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on November 19, 2020 Twitter
“Americans are paying the highest price in the world for Remdesivir because the Trump administration is allowing Gilead Sciences to jack up the prices on this #COVID19 treatment.”
Half-True
By Laura Schulte • December 1, 2020
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Viral image
stated on November 28, 2020 a Facebook post
Says the Denver Broncos signed Colin Kaepernick.
False
November 30, 2020
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on November 19, 2020 a press conference
Says that shutdowns are “ineffective” and that we now know that COVID-19 is not commonly spread “by someone going to work.”
False
By Brandon Mulder • November 27, 2020
Robin Vos
Robin Vos
stated on November 22, 2020 Interview
“We passed one of the first (COVID-19) bills in the entire country, empowering Gov. Evers to act.”
False
By Haley BeMiller • November 25, 2020
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Viral image
stated on November 24, 2020 a Facebook post
“Pennsylvania just banned alcohol sales.”
Mostly False
November 24, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on November 22, 2020 a Facebook post
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s “daughter is having a big wedding today. 500 people. Then going to lock you down on Monday.”
False
November 23, 2020
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