Lincoln Project, advocacy group
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Among the loans made with the first $350 billion of the Paycheck Protection Program, three-quarters of those loans were made in the smallest loan size category, one that would support a business of seven to 10 workers.
Dan Forest, North Carolina Lt. Governor
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: He compared diseases that started at different times, cherry-picked the worst-case US estimate, and ignored state numbers that don't support his claim.
Laura Ingraham, Fox News host
PolitiFact rated this: False
Social media posts
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine rated this: Very unlikely
Social media posts
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: There is no known treatment, cure or vaccine for the novel coronavirus or SARS.
Donald Trump, President
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: A draft federal government report drawing on preliminary work from Johns Hopkins projected 3,000 deaths per day by June 1. A University of Washington model predicts 134,000 deaths by early August. That model takes into a
Jay Chaudhuri, North Carolina State Senator
PolitiFact rated this: True
PolitiFact says: The National Conference of State Legislatures, a nonpartisan group that tracks state laws, confirms his claim is correct.
Donald Trump, U.S. president
PolitiFact rated this: Mitigation included
PolitiFact says: "We’ve never put forward a forecast that included no mitigation," the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation spokeswoman said.
Social media posts
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: Claims are spreading the falsehood that the CDC significantly lowered the COVID-19 death toll. There has been no such reduction. These claims confuse two different measures of the number of deaths.
Social media posts
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
PolitiFact says: The CDC’s estimate for seasonal flu deaths for the 2017-18 season was about 61,000. The CDC’s preliminary estimate for seasonal flu deaths for the 2018-19 season is about 34,200, but that’s not the final number.
Donald Trump, President of the United States
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: The IHME model reflects some relaxation of policies as states begin to reopen, but is still trying to capture the mitigation efforts that remain.
Scott Fitzgerald, Senate Majority Leader
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
Social media posts
PolitiFact rated this: False
Donald Trump, President
PolitiFact rated this: Needs context.
PolitiFact says: Trump’s ad mashes together his statements about the pandemic with comments or critical actions by Democrats and a journalist that are taken out of context. The ad cherry-picks praise of Trump by New York Gov. Andrew Cuom
Andrew Cuomo, Governor of New York
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: Cuomo was right on the numbers, wrong on the timeframe.
Donald Trump, President of the United States
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: A Trump campaign ad misleadingly edits a CNN interview to suggest 2 million people would have died from the novel coronavirus were it not for President Donald Trump’s China travel restrictions.
Larry Kudlow, White House economic adviser
FactCheck.org rated this: There Were Warnings
FactCheck.org says: There were several people who predicted the virus could or would spread to become a pandemic -- including members of Trump's administration.
Alice Kramer
USA TODAY rated this: Partly False
Social media posts
PolitiFact rated this: False
Ron DeSantis, Florida governor
PolitiFact rated this: Unproven with state data
PolitiFact says: The available data suggests that transmission has become well established in Florida with travel playing a minimal role, experts said.