“The Trump administration is selling coronavirus commemorative coins.”
The Dispatch Fact Check rated this: False
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“Alcohol Kills Coronavirus”
THIP Media rated this: Half True
“Claimed Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was saying in late February of the coronavirus: “This is no problem. This is going to blow — this is going to blow over.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: Fauci said that "right now at this moment" the risk was "low" and there was "no need" for people "to change anything that you're doing on a day-by-day basis." But he added this could develop into a "major outbreak."
“Small trials” to test convalescent plasma therapy for coronavirus patients “seem to have had some degree of success.”
PolitiFact rated this: True
PolitiFact says: At least two Chinese studies have found initial success with convalescent plasma therapy, in which antibodies from recovered coronavirus patients are given to seriously ill patients.
“Claim: Al Quran read in front of Trump to stop Covid 19”
Fact Crescendo rated this: Partly False
“88 Percent of Intubated Coronavirus Patients in New York Have Died”
The Dispatch Fact Check rated this: Misleading headlines created confusion.
“Professor Dr Tasuku Honjo in a media interaction said that coronavirus is not natural and was manufactured in China”
The Quint rated this: FALSE
“The government must have planned the coronavirus pandemic because the coronavirus relief bill had been introduced three years earlier.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
PolitiFact says: The introduction date of the legislation that ultimately became the CARES Act doesn’t signify anything about when the government knew about the coronavirus pandemic. It's a legislative quirk.
“Did the Kennedy Center donate coronavirus stimulus aid to Democrats?”
USA TODAY rated this: False
“Disinfectant and Sunlight can kill the novel coronavirus”
The Quint rated this: FALSE
“Drinking water mixed with salt kills the novel coronavirus”
Vera Files rated this: False
“Japan’s Nobel Prize winning Professor of Medicine, Professor Dr Tasuku Honjo has claimed that the Coronavirus is not natural and that China manufactured it”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
“Woman in the picture pregnant with novel coronavirus and the doctor says that she will not survive it”
The Quint rated this: 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.
“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.
“The United States arrested Charles Lieber, the "man behind COVID-19," for manufacturing and selling the coronavirus to China”
Vera Files rated this: False
“Hand sanitizer destroys the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19.”
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine rated this: Likely true
“Racial comparisons on coronavirus statistics in Monroe County, N.Y., show that the impact on minorities is “basically on par, a little bit up, from the population numbers,” meaning that “we don’t see that disparity as much here.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: She's right for deaths, but African Americans has a disproportionate share of ICU and non-ICU hospitalizations in Monroe County, and Hispanics had a disproportionate share of non-ICU hospitalizations.
“The Gates Foundation "has the patent for this coronavirus.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: The Gates Foundation has not been assigned any patents related to the novel coronavirus.
“Until this week, they [OSHA] weren’t even enforcing these guidelines [for coronavirus]. Still today, OSHA is not specifying which rules employees must follow or how to keep their workers safe and healthy.”
PolitiFact rated this: True
PolitiFact says: OSHA did not release any COVID-19 enforcement instructions for its inspectors until April 13, however it told inspectors to focus on its existing general safety standards, not recommendations geared toward the outbreak.