“Did the Kennedy Center donate coronavirus stimulus aid to Democrats?”
USA TODAY rated this: False
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“The second wave of the Spanish flu reportedly killed 20 million to 50 million people after the first wave killed 3 million to 5 million people”
USA TODAY rated this: Partly False
“A banner with a swastika, “Trump” and “Pence” is from a Michigan coronavirus protest.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: A protest against stay-at-home orders in Michigan was held April 15 at the capitol in downtown Lansing. The photo of the banner dates back at least to March 2 and appears to have been taken at a park in Boise, Idaho.
“And then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you’re going to test that too.”
PolitiFact rated this: Not part of study
PolitiFact says: The study which is not yet published or peer-reviewed looks at the impact of COVID-19 on certain surfaces and the air, and not in the body.
“Antibody tests will "support our efforts to get Americans back to work by showing us who might have developed the wonderful, beautiful immunity" to the novel coronavirus.”
FactCheck.org rated this: We Explain the Science
FactCheck.org says: The tests do have the potential to relay valuable information about who might already have immunity and how widely COVID-19 has spread. But so far, the tests are not widely available and many are unreliable.
“By the way, I did that very early, while Nancy Pelosi was trying to have, in San Francisco, parties in Chinatown. Because they — she thought it would be great. She wanted to show that this thing doesn’t exist.”
Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios
Washington Post says: Trump says Pelosi urged street fairs and parades, but that’s not true. She advocated patronage of Chinese businesses. She was not trying to show the virus did not exist.
“Doctors could "apply light and heat" to treat COVID-19 patients.”
PolitiFact rated this: No evidence
PolitiFact says: We found no evidence that sun or ultraviolet light could help treat COVID-19 patients. Experts said certain amounts of UV light would be dangerous.
“During the 1918 flu pandemic, San Francisco residents formed the “Anti-Mask League.” San Francisco “was ultimately one of the cities that suffered the most with a high death rate.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
PolitiFact says: Residents angry about the reinstatement of a mask order did form the Anti-Mask League in January 1919.
“Even with no shutdown, Sweden has a lower COVID-19 infection rate than UK, Italy and Spain.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: The COVID-19 infection rate in Sweden is lower than in Italy, Spain and the UK. But the epidemiologist credited with developing Sweden’s strategy said infection rate is not a reliable indicator of how a nation is doing.
“Governor Gretchen Whitmer spent the past weekend at her VACATION COTTAGE at Birch Lake. Violating her own EXECUTIVE ORDER.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Hospitals get paid more if patients listed as COVID-19, on ventilators”
USA TODAY rated this: True
“I said from the beginning that no American who needs a ventilator would be denied a ventilator and we have kept that promise all over the United States.”
PolitiFact rated this: So far, it looks like it
PolitiFact says: Over 30 states said they're not aware of any COVID-19 patients needing a ventilator and not getting one. Experts said that's due to mitigation efforts to slow the spread, but things could change.
“In 1986, the founder of the Times Square Church prophesied that he saw “a plague coming on the world and the bars and church and government will shut down,” with New York City especially hard hit.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: The Times Square Church, where David Wilkerson was founder, stated that there was no record of him ever predicting this in any of his sermons, books or speeches.
“President Trump has banned welfare for illegal immigrants which will save $57.4 billion a year.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Long before Trump became president, immigrants living in the country illegally were generally ineligible for federal public benefits.
“Said of his comments about injections of disinfectant: "I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you, just to see what would happen.”
FactCheck.org rated this: You Be the Judge
FactCheck.org says: There’s no clear indication in his remarks that Trump was joking, either in his initial comment or when he returned to the topic later in the briefing. But we’ll leave it for readers to judge.
“Says the April 22 jump in COVID-19 cases was related to the election.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Jump in new Wisconsin cases was actually due in large part to an outbreak at Brown County meatpacking plants.
“The Confederacy was more about states’ rights than slavery.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
“Trump said ‘hundreds’ of governors are calling him…& we only have 50.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“We are currently using only around 20% of our testing capacity.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
“Even President Trump’s own EPA has admitted that this rule (on air pollutants) threatens to cause serious health problems including brain damage and death and to inflict billions of dollars of economic damage on our struggling economy.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: An EPA science advisory board raised issues with the EPA’s approach and recommended doing a new assessment, but that recommendation wasn’t binding.