You asked, we answered. Due to the widespread nature of the new coronavirus, readers are being bombarded with mixed messages. Good information about seasonality, immunity and transmission is hard to come by, and a lot is not known about many of the epidemiological facts of COVID-19. So we tapped into our network of medical experts […]
Staying informed about COVID-19 is important. Here at PolitiFact, we want to help. Do you have questions about the new coronavirus? Did you wonder about a claim you heard from a politician or a pundit on TV? We want to know. Fill out this form and help us answer your questions for a story. See Figure […]
In one hour on March 11, Sarah Palin rapped on “The Masked Singer,” the NBA suspended its season and President Donald Trump announced new travel restrictions in an effort to contain the spread of the 2019 coronavirus. But to many, the biggest news of the night was Tom Hanks. In a tweeted statement, Hanks and […]
GOP House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield is facing calls this week to apologize for and delete a tweet in which he called the novel coronavirus “the Chinese coronavirus,” a description some say is racist and xenaphobic. COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, was first identified in Wuhan, the capital of China’s […]
President Donald Trump announced a sweeping ban on travel from Europe as a way to keep new cases of the coronavirus disease “from entering our shores.” But details from the White House and a proclamation he signed showed that his March 11 primetime address included inaccuracies and significant omissions. RELATED: Trump wrongly said insurance companies will […]
Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders are the last two candidates standing in a months-long Democratic presidential primary race. And they have found plenty to argue about. Part of that is because they have about 77 years of legislative history and votes to mine between the two of them. Biden was first elected to the Senate […]
PolitiFact has fact-checked a lot of popular social media posts about the 2019 coronavirus, COVID-19. We’ve debunked fake coronavirus cures, false news reports and conspiracy theories about the spread, as well as out-of-context images, bogus maps and even a fabricated reference from “The Simpsons.” PolitiFact will keep fact-checking these hoaxes as they surface — but […]
The stock market took a major hit on March 9, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling more than 2,000 points and the S&P 500’s early-morning plunge triggering an automatic, 15-minute trading halt known as a circuit breaker. The market troubles came as traders, already on edge over the spreading coronavirus, reacted to escalating tensions […]
Joe Biden defends his record on Social Security in a new ad designed to push back against attacks by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders. “Super Tuesday: state after state after state called for Joe Biden. Bernie Sanders goes on the attack. PolitiFact has called the Sanders campaign’s attacks false. Joe Biden has always been a strong […]
At times, Bernie Sanders has made a bold claim — that if he’s elected president, he can legalize marijuana nationwide by executive order, a process that sidesteps Congress and the full regulatory process. How realistic is this approach?
President Donald Trump made a series of misleading statements about the coronavirus and his Democratic rivals at his first town hall event of 2020.
President Donald Trump disputed the official death rate the World Health Organization recently announced for reported cases of the new coronavirus. We explain why it's hard for scientists to estimate the death rate right now.