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Latest Fact-Checks In Coronavirus

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Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 22, 2020 a Facebook post
“Pelosi was in (Wuhan) China 6 days after the impeachment HOAX failed.”
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • April 30, 2020
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on April 22, 2020 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
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 27, 2020 comments made during a White House briefing
“We’ve tested more than every country combined.”
Pants on Fire!
By Shefali Luthra, Shefali Luthra • April 30, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 23, 2020 a Facebook post
“Trump and McConnell are blocking stimulus checks for Americans married to immigrants.”
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • April 29, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 26, 2020 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
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on April 27, 2020 a screenshot
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer “has just been stripped of her emergency coronavirus powers by her state legislature.”
Mostly False
By Daniel Funke • April 29, 2020
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on April 12, 2020 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
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 23, 2020 comments made during a White House media briefing on the coronavirus
“We’re also using a sterilization process ― some great equipment that will sterilize masks up to 20 times per mask. So that’s like ordering 20 times more masks.”
Half-True
By Shefali Luthra, Shefali Luthra • April 29, 2020
Jamie Nadler
Jamie Nadler
stated on April 14, 2020 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 • April 29, 2020
Steve Bannon
Steve Bannon
stated on April 14, 2020 a radio interview.
Dr. Anthony “Fauci told us there’s nothing to worry about. That’s his quote, ‘There’s nothing to worry about.’”
Half-True
By Warren Fiske • April 29, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 24, 2020 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 a Facebook post
“Sweden has zero lockdown” and “is in no worse shape than Denmark or Norway,” which are in lockdown.
Mostly False
April 28, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 26, 2020 on social media
The government must have planned the coronavirus pandemic because the coronavirus relief bill had been introduced three years earlier.
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • April 27, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 22, 2020 a Facebook post
Mosquitoes can transfer COVID-19 “from person to person”
False
By Amy Sherman • April 27, 2020
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on April 22, 2020 a post on Facebook
“People defying stay-at-home order fill Arizona beaches.”
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • April 27, 2020
Chris Larson
Chris Larson
stated on April 23, 2020 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 a Facebook post
Even with no shutdown, Sweden has a lower COVID-19 infection rate than UK, Italy and Spain.
Half-True
April 24, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 3, 2020 on social media
In 1986, the founder of the Times Square Church prophesied that he saw “a plague coming on the world and the bars and church and government will shut down,” with New York City especially hard hit.
False
By Patrick Orsagos • April 24, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 21, 2020 a Facebook post
“Trump said ‘hundreds’ of governors are calling him…& we only have 50.”
False
April 24, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 22, 2020 a Facebook post
During the 1918 flu pandemic, San Francisco residents formed the “Anti-Mask League.” San Francisco “was ultimately one of the cities that suffered the most with a high death rate.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • April 24, 2020
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