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Latest Fact-Checks In Coronavirus

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stated on June 23, 2020 a viral image
If you are licensed to carry a concealed weapon, wearing a face covering for coronavirus "removes your conceal carry ability."
False
June 29, 2020
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Viral image
stated on June 11, 2020 a Facebook post
Says Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted, “It’s ‘odd’ that the ANTIFA insurgency happened just as COVID-19 loses steam It’s ‘odd’ that COVID-19 happened the moment impeachment failed. It’s ‘odd’ that impeachment happened the moment Russian hoax failed. The Russian hoax happened because Hillary lost? Notice the pattern?”
False
June 29, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 23, 2020 a Facebook post
In North Carolina, “you can be charged with a class H felony for wearing a mask and concealed carrying.”
False
By Paul Specht • June 26, 2020
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on June 23, 2020 an image
A “face mask exempt card” allows you to cite the ADA and not wear a mask.
False
By Daniel Funke • June 26, 2020
Lloyd Doggett
Lloyd Doggett
stated on June 22, 2020 a tweet
Hays County in Central Texas has seen an “incredible 845% increase in (COVID-19) cases since June 7.”
Mostly True
By Madlin Mekelburg • June 26, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 24, 2020 an image
Google and Apple “put a covid tracker on every phone.”
Half-True
By Daniel Funke • June 25, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 18, 2020 a Facebook post
“OSHA says masks don't work” to reduce COVID-19 transmission “and violate OSHA oxygen levels.”
False
June 25, 2020
Dan Forest
Dan Forest
stated on June 22, 2020 a tweet
"North Carolina is one of four states" that hasn't opened gyms.
True
By Paul Specht • June 25, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 23, 2020 a tweet
As of June 23, the COVID-19 death rate is “way down.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 24, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 23, 2020 a tweet
COVID-19 cases are “up only because of our big number testing.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 24, 2020
Priorities USA Action
Priorities USA Action
stated on June 22, 2020 a digital ad
Says President Trump said coronavirus testing makes the U.S. look bad, "so I said to my people, ‘Slow the testing down.’"
True
By Eric Litke • June 24, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 18, 2020 a Facebook post
Gov. Gavin Newsom “has no legal authority” to make wearing face coverings mandatory in California.
False
By Chris Nichols • June 24, 2020
Viral image
Viral image
stated on June 23, 2020 a Facebook post
Says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, “It’s vital that Governors maintain restrictions on businesses until after the November Elections because economic recovery will help Trump be re-elected. A few business closures or job losses is a small price to pay to be free from his presidency. #KeepUsClosed.”
Pants on Fire!
June 23, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 20, 2020 a campaign rally
“Joe Biden and the Democrats want to prosecute Americans for going to church, but not for burning a church.”
False
By Sophie Austin • June 23, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 14, 2020 a Facebook post
“Six months before the COVID ‘plandemic,’ Bill Gates had negotiated a $100 billion contact tracing deal with (the) Democratic congressman sponsor of bill.”
False
June 22, 2020
Monica Wallace
Monica Wallace
stated on June 8, 2020 a newspaper interview
Significantly more people died of Covid-19 in two months than died of overdoses all of last year or the year before.
True
By John Pullano • June 18, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 15, 2020 remarks during a roundtable discussion
“If we stopped testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any.”
Pants on Fire!
By Shefali Luthra, Shefali Luthra • June 17, 2020
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on June 5, 2020 a tweet
There are state workers who are "idle" at home during the coronavirus pandemic.
Half-True
By Lawrence Andrea • June 17, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 15, 2020 a Facebook post
Says news stories referencing 322 and COVID-19 are proof cases are being “synchronized”
Pants on Fire!
By Eric Litke • June 16, 2020
Desiree Rogers
Desiree Rogers
stated on June 10, 2020 an interview on CNN
In COVID-19 crisis, “only 20% of African Americans had jobs where they could work from home.”
True
By Jon Greenberg • June 16, 2020
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