“I wish they [China] told us three months sooner that this [the coronavirus] was a problem. We didn’t know about it. They knew about it and they should have told us.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Exaggerates
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“Nobody knew there’d be a pandemic or an epidemic of this proportion.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Experts Have Issued Warnings
“The Obama-Biden Administration set up the White House National Security Council Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense to prepare for future pandemics like covid-19. Donald Trump eliminated it — and now we’re paying the price.”
Washington Post rated this: Not the Whole Story
“The World Health Organization test for the new coronavirus "was a bad test.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
“A screenshot purports to show a tweet from President Donald Trump that says, before the U.S. issues financial assistance to individuals to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, "we will go through your social media history from the last 4 years and search for any post with #NotMyPresident in it.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
“Chloroquine has "gone through the approval process; it's been approved. And [the FDA] took it down from many, many months to immediate. So we're going to be able to make that drug available by prescription.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Misleading
“Says that “over a 45-minute period that we had the press conference” on the coronavirus on March 13, 2020, the stock market set "an all-time record.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
“I think the 3.4% is really a false number," referring to the World Health Organization saying 3.4% of reported COVID-19 patients worldwide have died.”
FactCheck.org rated this: We Explain the Number
“I've always known this is a real, this is a pandemic. I've felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
“Says Donald Trump “cut funding to the CDC,” “fired the Pandemic Response Team,” “refused WHO tests” and “wasted two weeks calling this outbreak a ‘Democrat hoax.’”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
“The WHO coronavirus test “was a bad test.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Video of American President Donald Trump announcing that Roche Medical Company will launch the vaccine for COVID-19 next Sunday”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
“Video shows President Donald Trump saying COVID-19 is Democrats’ “new hoax.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“During the 2009 swine flu outbreak, Biden made reckless comments unsupported by science & the experts. The Obama Admin had to clean up his mess & apologize for his ineptitude.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
“I met with the leaders of health insurance industry, who have agreed to waive all co-payments for coronavirus treatments.”
Washington Post rated this: Wrong
“The health insurance industry has “agreed to waive all co-payments for coronavirus treatments.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Anybody that wants a test (for the coronavirus) can get a test.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
“Anybody that wants a test [for COVID-19] can get a test. That’s what the bottom line is. ... Anybody right now and yesterday — anybody that needs a test gets a test. We — they’re there. They have the tests. And the tests are beautiful. Anybody that needs a test gets a test.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Exaggerates
“Donald Trump tweeted, “Corona vaccine from Israel! Stock market up! Economy even stronger now! Besides US, Israel best at inventions: Judaism, olives. Wonderful vaccine, will stop Corona DEAD around world. Can’t make vaccines when being bombed, not have been possible without peace I created in Israel!”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“The Obama administration made a decision on testing that turned out to be very detrimental to what we’re doing” on the coronavirus.”
PolitiFact rated this: False