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20 checks for “Ron DeSantis”
PolitiFact says: Florida's abortion amendment doesn't mandate abortion until the moment of birth. The text says abortion could not be prohibited before fetal viability or when necessary to protect the pregnant woman's health.
PolitiFact says: Experts say there is no hard evidence that COVID-19 infection is greater in people who have had boosters.
PolitiFact says: A McKinsey study found that California test scores fell enough to lose an average of 9 weeks, compared with 12 for Florida. That put California slightly below the 12-week national average and Florida slightly above it.
Washington Post says: Newspaper accounts and interviews tell a different story
PolitiFact says: The clips of DeSantis are real, but the video omits context. Some of DeSantis’ statements came early in the pandemic, when virtually all governors oversaw lockdowns. And Trump praised DeSantis for his pandemic response.
FactCheck.org says: Such claims are unsupported and based on flawed analyses.
FactCheck.org says: DeSantis signed a law banning abortion, with limited exceptions, after 15 weeks of pregnancy. It’s not a ban in all cases.
PolitiFact says: Crist overstated the number of expired tests, it was up to 1 million, not “millions," and leaves the impression that the tests were no longer usable but the FDA approved extending their shelf life.
FactCheck.org says: Infectious disease experts say low vaccination rates, resistance to protective measures such as wearing a mask and the highly transmissible delta variant are driving the current surge of COVID-19 cases in the U.S.
PolitiFact says: Preliminary studies find surviving COVID-19 leaves people with robust immunity. But it's a high-risk strategy for getting protection from the virus.
FactCheck.org says: There is no evidence of adverse health effects from mask-wearing. “For many years, health care providers have worn masks for extended periods of time with no adverse health reactions,” the Mayo Clinic Health System notes
FactCheck.org says: Image has been manipulated.
Washington Post says: There is little evidence to support this claim. Undocumented immigrants found to be covid-positive are quarantined until they are well.
PolitiFact says: Illegal immigration may be a contributing factor to the coronavirus’ spread, but the available evidence suggests another explanation: low vaccination rates.
PolitiFact says: There is limited research on COVID-19 and schoolchildren so far. It is difficult to assess how much children may have spread the virus since schools shut down early in the pandemic.
PolitiFact says: DeSantis held multiple press conferences in May where reporters asked him many pandemic-related questions about unemployment, reopening plans, testing and outbreaks.
PolitiFact says: The available data suggests that transmission has become well established in Florida with travel playing a minimal role, experts said.
PolitiFact says: We did not find any study that showed that obesity is the No. 1 risk factor in hospitalization cases of COVID-19. Evidence so far shows age as the top factor but obesity is also a risk factor.