Victoria Knight
KHN Reporter
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Stories Published
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Fact-Checks Published
Victoria Knight was a Kaiser Health News reporter who recently graduated with her master’s in health journalism from the University of Georgia. While at Georgia she served as the graduate assistant for the Athens NPR station, WUGA, and reported on local health issues, with a focus on HIV/AIDS. Prior to becoming a reporter at KHN, she interned with CNN Health, the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University and KHN. Her stories have been featured in Georgia Health News, CNN.com and The Daily Beast. She has a bachelor’s degree in microbiology from the University of Tennessee.
Areas of Expertise
Latest Fact-Checks by Victoria Knight
- Ad targeting Manchin, AARP misses on Medicare drug price negotiations July 25, 2022
- Gaetz’s diagnosis of what’s driving insulin costs misses the root cause April 21, 2022
- Biden’s blanket statement — ‘No more surprise billing’ — doesn’t quite cover it March 1, 2022
- An ad’s charge that drug price haggling would ‘swipe $500 billion from Medicare’ is incorrect September 28, 2021
- DeSantis’ executive order misleads about the lack of scientific support for masking in schools August 10, 2021
- CDC test can’t differentiate between COVID and the flu? That’s wrong. July 30, 2021
- The WHO did not reverse its position on kids and COVID-19 vaccines June 24, 2021
- Biden boasts about equitable senior COVID-19 vaccination rate by race without data to back it up May 11, 2021
- Biden’s criticism of Trump administration vaccine contracts too broad to be accurate March 5, 2021
- Becerra’s a longtime single-payer supporter. That doesn’t mean it will happen if he’s HHS secretary. March 1, 2021
Latest Stories by Victoria Knight
- 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
- Gun safety ‘wrapped in a mental health bill’: A look at health provisions in the new law July 6, 2022
- Five things to know now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade June 27, 2022
- Explaining a post-Roe legal landscape for medication abortion May 27, 2022
- Should you worry about data from your period-tracking app being used against you? May 12, 2022
- Ask KHN-Politifact: Is my cloth mask good enough? The 2022 edition January 12, 2022
- Events within and beyond Joe Biden’s control stymied progress on COVID-19 in his first year December 20, 2021
- When it comes to COVID-19, is it time to change the definition of ‘fully vaccinated’? December 6, 2021
- Licensed doctors who spread COVID-19 disinformation face no consequences, report shows September 22, 2021
- New research finds J&J vaccine has muscle against COVID’s delta variant July 6, 2021
- Explaining what Rand Paul said about vaccines for people who had COVID-19 June 17, 2021