Sam Whitehead
KFF Health News southern correspondent
2
Stories Published
1
Fact-Checks Published
Sam Whitehead is a correspondent for Kaiser Health News, a partner of PolitiFact. He covers the South for KHN from his base just outside Atlanta. He previously worked as a health care reporter for WABE, where he chronicled the covid-19 pandemic as host of the award-winning podcast “Did You Wash Your Hands?” Before that, he was a general assignment reporter and fill-in radio host at Georgia Public Broadcasting. He co-founded a long-running nightly news program on WRFI Community Radio in Ithaca, New York. He’s a graduate of Emory University.
Areas of Expertise
Latest Fact-Checks by Sam Whitehead
- JD Vance wrongly blames rural hospital closures on immigrants in the country illegally October 23, 2024
Latest Stories by Sam Whitehead
- Fact-check: Is replacing Joe Biden on the ticket ‘unlawful’? Election law experts say it’s not July 22, 2024
- United Facts of America: Experts say facts alone won’t bridge the partisan divide September 27, 2022
- Would Tom Hanks have qualified for a coronavirus test in the US? March 12, 2020
- Fact-checking Donald Trump’s 2020 State of the Union address February 5, 2020
- What we know about Shadow, Acronym and the Iowa caucuses February 4, 2020
- A new look for the PolitiFact website February 2, 2020
- PolitiFact answers the Senate’s impeachment questions January 31, 2020
- Florida health officials warn against vaccine boosters. Scientists call it political scaremongering. September 23, 2024
- Ruling on mask mandate highlights limits of CDC’s power April 22, 2022