“A Facebook post from January 27, 2020 claims coronavirus has contaminated a list of food products and that several Sydney train stations "have shown positive readings to the virus".”
AAP FactCheck rated this: False
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“BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION & OTHERS PREDICTED UP TO 65 MILLION DEATHS VIA CORONAVIRUS — IN SIMULATION RAN 3 MONTHS AGO!”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
“A husband and wife Chinese spy team were recently removed from a Level 4 Infectious Disease facility in Canada for sending pathogens to the Wuhan facility.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
“[A]uthorities have identified that the international chemical-warfare terrorist ‘Samuel Whitcomb Hyde’ is behind the deadly China ‘coronavirus.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
“CORONAVIRUS: Reports of 10,000 DEAD in Wuhan, China.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
“The new fad disease called the ‘coronavirus’ is sweeping headlines. Funny enough, there was a patent for the coronavirus was filed in 2015 and granted in 2018.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
“U.S. Cancer Death Rate Lowest In Recorded History! A lot of good news coming out of this Administration.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Takes Undue Credit
“The Trump family was disallowed from operating ANY charity in the State of New York because they stole from a kids cancer charity.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
“More people are coming home from Iraq with brain cancer than ever before, than any other war.”
FactCheck.org rated this: No Evidence
“After cutting $1.4 trillion in taxes for the super rich, Republicans just admitted they will not be funding the Children's Health Insurance Program, which provides care for 9 million children.”
FactCheck.org rated this: CHIP is funded through 2023
“The previous administration spent no money on [ending the AIDS epidemic] and we’re spending a lot.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Distorts the Facts
“In 2018, over 1,100 people died from reactions to the [flu] shot, and some children that received the shot were diagnosed with polio.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
“91% of the world’s population are exposed to air pollution above the World Health Organization’s suggested level. NONE ARE IN THE U.S.A.!”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
“[U]nder the last administration, VA hospitals were removing Bibles and even banning Christmas carols in an effort to be politically correct.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Exaggerates
“Since abortion was decriminalised in Victoria in 2008, post 20 week abortions have increased by 39 per cent.”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Wrong
“Childhood chronic illnesses have risen from “something like 12%” before 1986's vaccine protection law to "54% now.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Misleading
“If you're in a public hospital at the moment, all of your cancer treatment is free.”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: More to the story
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: There is more to the story. Public hospitals provide free treatment to cancer patients who are formally admitted as public inpatients. However, public patients may need to pay for other cancer services. In some states a…
“Shadow Finance Minister Jim Chalmers claims Labor’s $500 million pledge to upgrade hospital emergency departments is desperately needed to improve wait times.”
AAP FactCheck rated this: False - The checkable claim is false.
“Labor health spokesperson Catherine King claims one in five senior Australians have none of their own teeth and one in two suffers from moderate to severe gum disease.”
AAP FactCheck rated this: True - The checkable claims are all true.
“GP bulk-billing is up nearly 4 per cent from 82.2 per cent under Labor to a record 86.1 per cent under the Coalition Government — meaning that more patients are seeing their local GP without having to pay out-of-pocket costs.”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Half-baked
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Hunt's claim is half-baked. He has the numbers right, but it does not necessarily follow that an increase in bulk-billing means fewer patients face out-of-pocket costs when seeing their GP. Department of Health stati…