Fact Check Posts – Page 20

Facebook posts
stated on May 12, 2020 in a headline in a Facebook post:

“Beachgoers trash Florida beaches with 13,000 pounds of litter after beaches reopen.”

By Amy Sherman • May 18, 2020

Republican National Committee
stated on May 8, 2020 in a video:

Says Joe Biden said voting by mail is a way to “fundamentally change this country,” contradicting past statements by Barack Obama and Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

By Amy Sherman • May 14, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on May 7, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“The CDC has recommended mail in voting. That’s what this whole pandemic is about: the election!”

By Amy Sherman • May 12, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on April 29, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp “mandates restaurants reopen”

By Amy Sherman • May 8, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on May 5, 2020 in an interview on ABC:

Models projecting COVID-19 deaths “are talking about without mitigation.”

By Amy Sherman • May 6, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on April 18, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“The flu killed 80,000 people in the U.S. last year”

By Amy Sherman • May 6, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on April 22, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“Pelosi was in (Wuhan) China 6 days after the impeachment HOAX failed.”

By Amy Sherman • April 30, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on April 22, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Mosquitoes can transfer COVID-19 “from person to person”

By Amy Sherman • April 27, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on April 22, 2020 in 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.”

By Amy Sherman • April 24, 2020

Marco Rubio
stated on April 20, 2020 in a New York Times op-ed:

“Face masks being manufactured in China, for example, went to domestic consumption and their own fight against the virus” while the U.S. was “largely unable to import supplies from China.”

By Amy Sherman • April 23, 2020

Joe Biden
stated on April 21, 2020 in a tweet:

“The Trump Administration promised 27 million tests by the end of March. As of now, only 4 million have been completed.”

By Amy Sherman • April 23, 2020

Gretchen Whitmer
stated on April 15, 2020 in 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.”

By Amy Sherman • April 17, 2020

Ron DeSantis
stated on April 14, 2020 in an April 14, 2020 press briefing:

“Obesity is, like, the No. 1 factor in whether you really get hit hard by COVID-19.”

By Amy Sherman • April 17, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on April 13, 2020 in in a White House briefing:

Says as president he has “total” authority to re-open states amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

By Amy Sherman • April 14, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on April 13, 2020 in a tweet:

"It is the decision of the President," not governors, to "open up the states."

By Amy Sherman • April 13, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on April 6, 2020 in a White House briefing:

The Obama administration left Trump with a “stockpile with a cupboard that was bare.”

By Amy Sherman • April 8, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on April 1, 2020 in in a White House briefing:

“Now, they’re doing tests on airlines — very strong tests — for getting on, getting off. They’re doing tests on trains — getting on, getting off.”

By Amy Sherman • April 6, 2020

Marco Rubio
stated on March 19, 2020 in a tweet:

For coronavirus cases “in the U.S. 38% of those hospitalized are under 35.”

By Amy Sherman • March 20, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on March 13, 2020 in a Facebook post:

In South Florida “all children and adults must remain in their homes” due to coronavirus.

By Amy Sherman • March 17, 2020

Occupy Democrats
stated on March 12, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Says Rep. Matt Gaetz and Sen. Ted Cruz took two weeks paid sick leave to self-quarantine. Gaetz “voted in 2013 to make it illegal for any city in Florida to enact paid sick leave,” and Cruz “voted in 2015 in the U.S. Senate against paid sick leave.”

By Amy Sherman • March 17, 2020

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