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Latest Fact-Checks In Coronavirus

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Wisconsin Republican Legislative leaders
Wisconsin Republican Legislative leaders
stated on April 21, 2020 a joint statement
Wisconsin is “clearly seeing a decline in COVID infections”
Mostly False
By Eric Litke • April 21, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 10, 2020 a Facebook post
Herd immunity is probably why California has far fewer COVID-19 deaths than New York.
False
April 21, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 16, 2020 a Facebook post
Says Democrats are on vacation until May 4 and “refuse to come back” to sign a bill to help small businesses.
False
By Samantha Putterman • April 21, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 10, 2020 a Facebook post
Hospitals get paid more to list patients as COVID-19.
Half-True
April 21, 2020
Viral image
Viral image
stated on April 19, 2020 a Facebook post
A photo taken by a journalist showing a beach in Jacksonville, Fla., isn't from after the government reopened the beach as news reports have claimed.
False
April 21, 2020
Viral image
Viral image
stated on April 19, 2020 a Facebook post
“My wife is suffering from coronavirus and she is pregnant. The doctor said she won’t survive it.”
Pants on Fire!
April 21, 2020
Jay Inslee
Jay Inslee
stated on April 19, 2020 an interview on ABC's "This Week"
Stay-at-home orders “actually are the law of these states.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 21, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 17, 2020 a Facebook post
Says Wisconsin’s in-person election has caused a “surge” in new coronavirus cases
False
By Eric Litke • April 21, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 18, 2020 a Facebook post
“The poor are, ironically, the most likely to be employed in the industries deemed ‘essential’ while their upper-class peers are freed to bunker down for weeks until the first death wave passes.”
True
By Jessica Calefati • April 21, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 19, 2020 an image
Says a photo shows the "SAME EXACT PEOPLE" at "two different beaches" in Los Angeles County and Jacksonville, Fla.
False
By Daniel Funke • April 20, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 19, 2020 a Facebook post
News photo from stay-at-home protest was doctored to add Confederate flag.
Pants on Fire!
April 20, 2020
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on April 14, 2020 a news conference
“Go look at other countries that went through exactly this, started to reopen, and then they saw the infection rate go back up again.”
True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • April 20, 2020
Phil McGraw
Phil McGraw
stated on April 16, 2020 a Fox News appearance
There are “360,000 (deaths) a year from swimming pools. But we don’t shut the country down for that.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • April 17, 2020
Gretchen Whitmer
Gretchen Whitmer
stated on April 15, 2020 an April 15, 2020 press conference
“During the flu pandemic of 1918, some cities lifted social distancing measures too fast, too soon, and created a second wave of pandemic.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • April 17, 2020
X posts
X posts
stated on April 10, 2020 a Twitter post
“Per order from @GovWhitmer, people in Michigan are now banned from purchasing a new baby car seat in stores.”
False
By Madison Czopek • April 17, 2020
Jeff Jackson
Jeff Jackson
stated on April 6, 2020 a tweet
NC liquor stores were deemed essential “because we have a lot of people who are chemically dependent on alcohol and if we suddenly cut off their access they would go into withdrawal and flood the emergency rooms.”
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • April 17, 2020
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on April 14, 2020 an April 14, 2020 press briefing
“Obesity is, like, the No. 1 factor in whether you really get hit hard by COVID-19.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • April 17, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 16, 2020 a tweet
Says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi deleted a video of her telling people to go to Chinatown.
False
By Miriam Valverde • April 16, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 16, 2020 a post on Facebook
“Africans living in China now being forced to sleep outside in the cold” as “Chinese nationals blame them for the rising number of new coronavirus cases in the country.”
True
April 16, 2020
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 14, 2020 his online video endorsement of Joe Biden for president
Republicans “have shown themselves willing to cut millions off their health insurance and eliminate preexisting condition protections for millions more, even in the middle of this public health crisis."
True
By Shefali Luthra, Shefali Luthra • April 16, 2020
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