Fact Check Posts – Page 2

National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on July 17, 2020 in a campaign ad:

“[Steve] Bullock’s health care plan will force rural hospitals to close. Medicare as we know it will change, replaced by a government-run program with fewer doctors and longer wait times.”

By Victoria Knight • August 17, 2020

Viral image
stated on April 23, 2020 in a widely-circulated social media post:

COVID-19’s “contagion probability” between two people is 70% if the carrier is not masked, 5% if the carrier is masked, and 1.5% if both parties are.

By Victoria Knight • July 1, 2020

Priorities USA Action
stated on May 19, 2020 in in a TV and digital ad:

Says President Donald Trump is trying to make $451 billion in Medicare cuts "in the middle of a deadly pandemic."

By Victoria Knight • May 29, 2020

Mitch McConnell
stated on May 11, 2020 in a Team Trump Facebook Live:

“Clearly, the Obama administration did not leave any kind of game plan for something like this.”

By Victoria Knight • May 14, 2020

Gary Kelly
stated on May 3, 2020 in an interview on CBS:

Regarding the risks of coronavirus transmission on an airplane, “It’s as safe as an environment as you’re going to find.”

By Victoria Knight • May 11, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on April 23, 2020 in a viral image circulating on social media attributing comments to Barack Obama:

Says President Barack Obama "signed the medical appliance tax bill that forced companies to outsource manufacturing of masks, gowns, gloves and ventilaors [sic] to China, Europe and Russia to avoid the tax.”

By Victoria Knight • May 1, 2020

Joe Biden
stated on April 15, 2020 in comments at a virtual town hall meeting:

“Until this week, they [OSHA] weren’t even enforcing these guidelines [for coronavirus]. Still today, OSHA is not specifying which rules employees must follow or how to keep their workers safe and healthy.”

By Victoria Knight • April 22, 2020

Instagram posts
stated on March 15, 2020 in a screenshot:

Says Donald Trump “cut funding to the CDC,” “fired the Pandemic Response Team,” “refused WHO tests” and “wasted two weeks calling this outbreak a ‘Democrat hoax.’”

By Daniel Funke, Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson, Victoria Knight • March 17, 2020

Joe Biden
stated on March 15, 2020 in 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.”

By Jon Greenberg, Victoria Knight • March 16, 2020

Chad Wolf
stated on February 25, 2020 in an exchange during a Senate appropriations subcommittee hearing:

The mortality rate for the flu is “right around” that of the new coronavirus: “It’s right around 2%.”

By Victoria Knight • March 2, 2020

Michael Bloomberg
stated on February 26, 2020 in a CNN town hall:

Says of President Donald Trump’s actions on the coronavirus: “No. 1, he fired the pandemic team two years ago. No. 2, he's been defunding the Centers for Disease Control.”

By Louis Jacobson, Victoria Knight • February 28, 2020

Joe Biden
stated on February 19, 2020 in comments during the February Democratic primary debate in Las Vegas:

“From the moment we passed that signature legislation, Mike (Bloomberg) called it a disgrace.”

By Shefali Luthra, Shefali Luthra, Victoria Knight • February 20, 2020

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 7, 2020 in campaign talking points issued days before the New Hampshire primary:

“Pete Buttigieg is a favorite candidate of Wall Street and the health care industry.”

By Victoria Knight • February 19, 2020

Elizabeth Warren
stated on January 26, 2020 in comments made while campaigning in Davenport, Iowa.:

"The president of the United States already has the legal authority to reduce the price of many commonly used prescription drugs."

By Shefali Luthra, Shefali Luthra, Victoria Knight • January 29, 2020

Better Future Michigan
stated on December 16, 2019 in a television advertisement.:

Says Gary Peters "supports ‘Medicare for All,’ siding with radical liberals."

By Victoria Knight • January 27, 2020

Andrew Yang
stated on December 19, 2019 in comments during the December Democratic presidential primary debate.:

"If you're a black woman, you're 320% more likely to die from complications in childbirth."

By Shefali Luthra, Shefali Luthra, Victoria Knight • December 20, 2019

Joe Biden
stated on November 20, 2019 in comments made during the November Democratic presidential primary debate.:

"The fact is that right now the vast majority of Democrats do not support Medicare for All."

By Victoria Knight • November 26, 2019

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