Checked elsewhere

Checks published by other fact-checking organisations. We did not do these checks. Each one names who did, shows their rating in their own words, and links to their full article.

Checked by Topic Language Country

Checked by FactCheck.org6 Apr 2020United States Health

Donald Trump, President of the United States

“Banning dangerous foreign travel" from China on Jan. 31 was one of the actions the Trump administration took to combat the coronavirus “far earlier than anyone would have thought and way ahead of anybody else.”

FactCheck.org rated this: Spins the Facts

Checked by FactCheck.org6 Apr 2020United States Health

Donald Trump, President of the United States

“There’s a study out that people with lupus aren’t catching this horrible virus.”

FactCheck.org rated this: False

Checked by FactCheck.org3 Apr 2020United States Health

Donald Trump, President of the United States

“We started off with an empty shelf. We didn’t have very much in terms of medical product [in the Strategic National Stockpile] … and we built something really good.”

FactCheck.org rated this: False

Checked by PolitiFact1 Apr 2020United States Health

Social media posts

“Says President Donald Trump will announce that a scientist "finally found vaccine to cure corona virus.”

PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire

Checked by FactCheck.org1 Apr 2020United States Health

Donald Trump, President

“[T]his administration inherited a broken system, a system [for coronavirus testing] that was obsolete, a system that didn’t work. It was okay for a tiny, small group of people, but once you got beyond that, it didn’t work.”

FactCheck.org rated this: Misleading

Checked by FactCheck.org31 Mar 2020United States Health

Social media posts

“It took [President Barack] Obama ‘millions infected and over 1,000 deaths’ to declare the H1N1 flu a health emergency,” but President Donald Trump “declared a health emergency” before the first coronavirus death.”

FactCheck.org rated this: Misleading

Checked by Vera Files31 Mar 2020Philippines Health

Social media posts

“LeBron James said Rodrigo Duterte is better than Donald Trump in managing COVID-19 crisis”

Vera Files rated this: Fake

Checked by FactCheck.org31 Mar 2020United States Health

Donald Trump, President

“Said of the coronavirus outbreak: "I just want to reiterate, because a lot of people have been asking, 'Well, what would have happened if we did nothing? Did nothing — we just rode it out.' ... And I think we got our most accurate study today, or certainly most comprehensive. Think of the number: 2.2 — potentially 2.2 million people if we did nothing.”

FactCheck.org rated this: Estimate Known Since March 16

Checked by PolitiFact31 Mar 2020United States Health

Donald Trump, President of the United States

“We inherited a broken test” for COVID-19.”

PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire

Checked by FactCheck.org31 Mar 2020United States Health

Donald Trump, President of the United States

“Where are the masks going? Are they going out the back door? How do you go from 10,000 to 300,000?”

FactCheck.org rated this: No Evidence

Checked by PolitiFact30 Mar 2020United States Health

Donald Trump, President

“I didn’t say that” some of the medical equipment that governors are requesting, they don't actually need.”

PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire

Checked by PolitiFact27 Mar 2020United States Health

Priorities USA, Super PAC

“Says President Donald Trump made comments downplaying the coronavirus as the number of cases in the U.S. rose exponentially.”

PolitiFact rated this: Most comments came early

Checked by Vera Files26 Mar 2020Philippines Health

Social media posts

“Donald Trump announced that Roche Diagnostics will launch COVID-19 vaccine on Sunday”

Vera Files rated this: False

Checked by FactCheck.org26 Mar 2020United States Health

Donald Trump, President of the United States

“In eight days, we’re doing more [coronavirus] testing than they’ve done in eight weeks," referring to South Korea.”

FactCheck.org rated this: Misleading

Checked by FactCheck.org26 Mar 2020United States Health

Donald Trump, President of the United States

“This says that New York Governor Cuomo rejected buying recommended 16,000 ventilators in 2015 for the pandemic — for a pandemic; established death panels and lotteries instead.”

FactCheck.org rated this: Misleading

Checked by The New York Times26 Mar 2020United States Health

Donald Trump

“You have suicides over things like this when you have terrible economies. You have death. Probably — and I mean definitely — would be in far greater numbers than the numbers that we’re talking about with regard to the virus.”

The New York Times rated this: This lacks evidence.

Checked by The Dispatch Fact Check25 Mar 2020United States Health

Donald Trump

“Andrew Cuomo refused to buy 16,000 ventilators in 2015 for pandemic preparedness”

The Dispatch Fact Check rated this: Mixed

Checked by PolitiFact25 Mar 2020United States Health

Donald Trump, President of the United States

“Says N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo “rejected buying recommended 16,000 ventilators in 2015 for the pandemic, for a pandemic, established death panels and lotteries instead. So, he had a chance to buy, in 2015, 16,000 ventilators at a very low price, and he turned it down.”

PolitiFact rated this: False

Checked by FactCheck.org25 Mar 2020United States Health

Donald Trump, President

“The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic "was a flu where if you got it you had a 50/50 chance, or very close, of dying.”

FactCheck.org rated this: No Evidence

Checked by FactCheck.org25 Mar 2020United States Health

Donald Trump, President

“There’s been some tremendous signs that this could work. Now, again, you know, some doctors think it should go for years in testing. But, you know, this has been something that’s been around for many years. It’s been phenomenal — a strong, powerful drug for malaria. But we think it might work on this [COVID-19], based on evidence — based on very strong evidence.”

FactCheck.org rated this: Evidence Is Slim