“Herd immunity is probably why California has far fewer COVID-19 deaths than New York.”
PolitiFact says: There’s no evidence herd immunity has limited coronavirus deaths in California, which adopted stay-at-home measures before New York did.
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PolitiFact says: There’s no evidence herd immunity has limited coronavirus deaths in California, which adopted stay-at-home measures before New York did.
FactCheck.org says: We could find no evidence to support President Trump’s claim. In fact, Italy cut off air travel to and from China two days before the U.S. enacted its travel restrictions.
PolitiFact says: Both Kennedy and PBS are nonprofits that are prohibited by law from making political donations. Federal election records show they have not made any such donations.
Washington Post says: These were donations by private charities and public companies; all the State Department did was supply planes that would have been empty anyway.
PolitiFact says: There are a lot of ways to slice coronavirus data, but this overreaches. Most metrics showed the state infection rate was flat at the time of this statement.
Washington Post says: Contrary of Trump's claims, the Obama administration received high marks for its handling of the 2009 swine flu pandemic and fewer people died than originally estimated.
PolitiFact says: It’s standard for Medicare to pay a hospital roughly three times as much for a patient who goes on a ventilator, as for one who doesn’t. Medicare is paying a 20% add-on to its regular hospital payments for the treatment
PolitiFact says: A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel photo showed one protester carrying two flags, including the Confederate flag. Analyses show the photo was not doctored.
PolitiFact says: On this date, the CDC announced the investigation of a new disease in Wuhan. Two days later they announced that "the risk from the Novel Coronavirus 2019 to the American public is deemed to be low."
PolitiFact says: Both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives are in recess until May 4 to avoid transmitting the coronavirus. No political party has refused to come back.
PolitiFact says: An image appears to show a tweet issued by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. It’s fake, posted by a now-defunct fake-tweet generator.
PolitiFact says: The article is originally from a website that discloses that it does satire. The House speaker has wed only once, to Paul Pelosi. They have been married since 1963.
PolitiFact says: The article wrongly treated an unusually low number of cases on April 13 as a baseline. The increase in the following days was in fact connected to an increased number of tests.
PolitiFact says: Experts say executive orders, proclamations, and similar orders now being issued to curb the spread of coronavirus carry the same weight as conventional, legislature-passed laws.