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“The deaths of six people during its clinical trials were the effect of Pfizer Inc.'s COVID-19 vaccine.”
“Masks will kill quite a few people, it’s well known that they reduce blood oxygen levels and those with respiratory and cardiac disorders will die.”
PolitiFact says: We found no credible reports of people dying because they used masks to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
“But just the other day they came out with a statement that 85% of the people that wear masks catch" the coronavirus.”
FactCheck.org says: The CDC released a tweet directly contradicting the president’s claim, saying, “the interpretation that more mask-wearers are getting infected compared to non-mask wearers is incorrect.”
“We had set up in our administration a pandemic office within the White House. There were 44 people on the ground [in China]. ... All those 44 people came home, never got replaced.”
FactCheck.org says: Reuters, citing CDC documents, wrote that CDC’s Beijing office “has shrunk to around 14 staffers, down from approximately 47 people since President Donald Trump took office in January 2017.”
“If the vaccine came out tomorrow, how in the heck would we get it to people? There is no game plan.”
PolitiFact says: The CDC and the National Academies of Sciences are working on recommendations for vaccine distribution. Four states and a city are involved in a pilot to create a model of recommendations.
“A patient discharge document proves that “The WHO and CDC do NOT recommend that healthy people wear masks.”
“People carrying guns can’t wear face masks to protect against the coronavirus because it’s a “class 4 felony.”
PolitiFact says: There is no nationwide law that bans carrying a concealed weapon while wearing a mask. We couldn’t find any state where wearing a protective mask while carrying a concealed weapon is currently banned.
“COVID-19’s “contagion probability” between two people is 70% if the carrier is not masked, 5% if the carrier is masked, and 1.5% if both parties are.”
PolitiFact says: Epidemiologists seem to agree that the scientific studies necessary to quantify the exact percentage of contagion risk have not been done — making numbers advanced by this image are questionable.
“Fewer than 100 people have died directly from Covid-19 in Ireland”
“If we shut it down a month earlier, we’d have probably another 45,000 to 60,000 people be alive instead of dead because he didn’t listen to — and I’m going to say something outrageous. He did not listen to guys like me back in January saying we have a problem, a pandemic is on the way.”
Washington Post says: Biden leaves the impression he had offered more specific plans to combat the virus. He did not say back in January that it was a pandemic, only that it was a possibility, and he did not advocate social distancing.
“Columbia University "pointed out that if [Trump] had listened to me and others and acted just one week earlier to deal with this virus, there’d be 36,000 fewer people dead.”
FactCheck.org says: Biden falsely suggested that he called for implementing nationwide social distancing restrictions prior to March 8, which Columbia University researchers said could have prevented nearly 36,000 U.S. death.
“People who serve the public 8 hours a day wearing masks are counterproductive because they are unknowingly intoxicating themselves.”
“Amit Shah tweeted that he has been suffering from bone cancer in the back of his throat for the past few days, and requested the people of Muslim community to pray for his health during the good months of Ramzan”
“Campaign TV ad suggests CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta agreed 2 million people would have died from the novel coronavirus were it not for President Donald Trump's China travel restrictions.”
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.
“The CDC recommends that only people with COVID-19 symptoms should wear masks.”
PolitiFact says: To guard against the spread of the coronavirus, the CDC recommends nearly everyone wear a face covering when out in public and where social distancing is more difficult. That's a change from its previous advice.
“Viral post shows same picture with different headlines on COVID-19 stories, asking, "That's weird the exact same people who visited the beach in Florida are now at the beaches in California?”
FactCheck.org says: Posts compare screenshots from two news sites to falsely claim that using the same image of people at the beach during the COVID-19 pandemic shows media deception. Both reports correctly identify the picture’s location.
“Italy was “hit hard” by the coronavirus pandemic because “a lot of the people that didn’t come in here went to Italy" when the U.S. imposed travel restrictions on China.”
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.