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Josh Mandel, Ohio politician

“The federal government spent over $500k trying to force fish to exercise on treadmills, an additional $150k to see if gingerbread houses are earthquake proof.”

PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False

PolitiFact says: Washington spent about $3,400, not on testing gingerbread houses, but on a workshop about earthquake resistant design. The fish experiment was about the emergence of life on land millions of years ago.

Checked by FactCheck.org21 May 2021United StatesHealth
The Gateway Pundit, Website

“CDC Director Finally Admits that COVID Cases were Over-Counted in Hospitals - Just as Gateway Pundit and Donald Trump Reported in August.”

FactCheck.org rated this: False

FactCheck.org says: The CDC director said the agency knew of 223 breakthrough fatalities among fully vaccinated individuals, but “not all … died of COVID.” She did not say “many, many hospitals” previously “overcounted” COVID-19 deaths.

Checked by Noticias Telemundo20 May 2021United StatesSpanish
Anne Schuchat, directora adjunta principal de los CDC

“Los datos sobre la seguridad de las vacunas del COVID-19 para las mujeres embarazadas son tranquilizadores”

Noticias Telemundo rated this: Verdadero

Noticias Telemundo says: La evidencia más reciente indica que la vacuna del COVID-19 durante el embarazo es segura, explicó a Noticias Telemundo la epidemióloga Sandra Albrecht, profesora de la Universidad de Columbia en Nueva York.