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Latest Fact-Checks In Coronavirus

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Sherill Sellman
Sherill Sellman
stated on February 12, 2020 remarks on the Jim Bakker show
Silver Solution used on strains of coronavirus "totally eliminate it. Kills it. Deactivates it.”
Pants on Fire!
By Julia Garlich • March 17, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on March 15, 2020 a Democratic primary debate
The World Health Organization offered the testing kits that they have available and to give it to us now. We refused them. We did not want to buy them.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg, Victoria Knight • March 16, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 9, 2020 a Facebook post
“Coronavirus — 22. Clintons — 39.”
Pants on Fire!
By Bill McCarthy • March 16, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 12, 2020 a Facebook post
Says COVID-19 came to the United States in 2019.
False
March 16, 2020
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on March 12, 2020 a post on the internet
“The CDC can detain anyone with a fever — indefinitely. … Vaccination (is) a way people could get out of detention.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 16, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 12, 2020 a Facebook post
“‘The Simpsons' predicted Tom Hanks getting coronavirus in 2007.”
False
March 16, 2020
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on March 12, 2020 a story
Says Nancy Pelosi was “caught trying to include abortion funding in bill to combat coronavirus.”
False
By Samantha Putterman • March 16, 2020
Viral image
Viral image
stated on March 13, 2020 a viral image
Drinking “water a lot and gargling with warm water & salt or vinegar eliminates” the coronavirus.
False
March 16, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on March 3, 2020 a tweeted video
Video shows President Donald Trump saying COVID-19 is Democrats’ “new hoax.”
False
By Daniel Funke • March 15, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 12, 2020 a tweet
Says Joe Biden “was in charge of the H1N1 Swine Flu epidemic which killed thousands of people. The response was one of the worst on record. Our response is one of the best, with fast action of border closings & a 78% Approval Rating, the highest on record. His was lowest!"
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • March 15, 2020
Michael Dougherty
Michael Dougherty
stated on March 12, 2020 a tweet
“Some states are only getting 50 tests per day, and the Utah Jazz got 58.”
True
By Bill McCarthy • March 13, 2020
Viral image
Viral image
stated on March 9, 2020 a chart
Says 80% of novel coronavirus cases are "mild."
Mostly True
By Paul Specht • March 13, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 12, 2020 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
Viral image
Viral image
stated on March 10, 2020 a Facebook post
Says you can monitor yourself for COVID-19 with a breath test.
False
March 13, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 7, 2020 a Facebook post
“U.S. hospitals are preparing for 96 million coronavirus infections and nearly half a million deaths, leaked documents reveal.”
False
March 13, 2020
Ainsley Earhardt
Ainsley Earhardt
stated on March 13, 2020 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 March 12, 2020 a Facebook post
Says if you donate blood, “they HAVE to test you” for coronavirus.
False
March 13, 2020
Viral image
Viral image
stated on February 27, 2020 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 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 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
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