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FactCheck.org says: The information needed to make the claim that Disney Plus was losing subscribers in a matter of days is not publicly available and the company's stock has only faced a 2% decline in a month.
FactCheck.org says: The unvaccinated are more prone to serious illness from COVID-19 and are dying at higher rates than those who are vaccinated, but partisan social media accounts continue to suggest the vaccines are unnecessary.
FactCheck.org says: Georgia officials are investigating claims of illegal “ballot harvesting” during the 2020 elections and the January 2021 runoffs. That's not evidence that "harvesting" elected Georgia's two Democratic U. S. senators.
FactCheck.org says: An Emerson College/The Hill poll indicates Kemp would beat Abrams by 2 percentage points more than Perdue would. But side-by-side graphics in the tweet make the difference appear larger.
FactCheck.org says: Remdesivir es el único medicamento antiviral aprobado por la FDA para tratar el COVID-19. Ensayos clínicos no encuentran aumento en mortalidad entre pacientes con COVID-19 tratados con remdesivir.
FactCheck.org says: Trump signed into law a bill in December 2019 that included sanctions against companies building Nord Stream 2. But the pipeline was about 90% complete at the time, and construction started up again in December 2020.
FactCheck.org says: The Mandel campaign denied the claim and provided the media with a copy of the original image.
FactCheck.org says: The Tennessee bill initially omitted a minimum age, but was amended on April 6 to say individuals must be at least 18 years old.
FactCheck.org says: A conspiracy theory circulating online, falsely attributed to a “Pentagon official,” claims that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is the cousin of billionaire philanthropist George Soros.
FactCheck.org says: Those Americans could only be denied coverage on the individual market. Employer-based plans, the largest source of insurance in the U.S., couldn't deny an insurance plan to employees before the ACA.
FactCheck.org says: Los proveedores de atención médica sí están obligados a notificar determinados eventos adversos tras la vacunación contra el COVID-19 al VAERS.
FactCheck.org says: A retired chiropractor misleadingly claimed that remdesivir used to treat COVID-19 is “killing people.” But tudies have shown that remdesivir can lead to faster recovery times for hospitalized patients.
FactCheck.org says: The NPR story cited in the Penn Progress TV ad now carries a correction that says, “This story wrongly states that Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman is a ‘self-described democratic socialist.’ He is not.”
FactCheck.org says: Weekly rates of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths by vaccination status are published monthly by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on its website.
FactCheck.org says: When Trump took office as president in January 2017, the reserve held 695.1 million barrels of crude oil. The last full week before he left office in January 2021, it held 638.1 million barrels, or about 8% less.
FactCheck.org says: A statement signed by more than 300 historians who study genocide, Nazism and World War II said Putin’s rhetoric about de-Nazifying fascists among Ukraine’s elected leadership is “propaganda.”
FactCheck.org says: The footage was shot in Ukraine. The Edmonton jacket seen in the footage was donated by a Canadian organization.
FactCheck.org says: A CDC report found that side effects following a booster of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines were less frequent than after the second dose. But a Facebook video misrepresents that report’s findings.
FactCheck.org says: Bankruptcy claims could leave the wrong impression. Government trustees project that certain Medicare and Social Security trust funds would become depleted by then, but payments would continue, albeit at a reduced rate.
FactCheck.org says: The Facebook post says Judge Janice Rogers Brown was the first Black woman nominated to SCOTUS. Republicans did not nominate former Judge Janice Rogers Brown to the U.S. Supreme Court.