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Donald Trump, President of the United States

“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 rated this: False

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.

Donald Trump, President

“It [AIDS] was a death certificate. And then, all of a sudden, they came up with some kind of — and now we have — we will be AIDS-free within eight years. We started 10 years. Should have started in the previous administration. They did nothing.”

Washington Post rated this: False

Washington Post says: Trump's plans for fighting AIDS was built on Obama's plans, though with a more ambitious goal; both presidents spent about the same amount of money each year.

Checked by FactCheck.org29 Apr 2020United StatesHealth
Donald Trump, President of the United States

“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."

Checked by PolitiFact29 Apr 2020United StatesHealth
Donald Trump, President of the United States

“We’re also using a sterilization process ― some great equipment that will sterilize masks up to 20 times per mask. So that’s like ordering 20 times more masks.”

PolitiFact rated this: Half True

PolitiFact says: The FDA granted emergency authorization to new technology that can sterilize respirator masks up to 20 times. In many cases, normal wear and tear means N95 respirators cannot be sanitized and reused safely.

Checked by FactCheck.org24 Apr 2020United StatesHealth
Donald Trump, President of the United States

“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.

Checked by FactCheck.org22 Apr 2020United StatesHealth
Donald Trump, President of the United States

“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 rated this: No Evidence

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.