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FactCheck.org says: As of May 11, the U.S. had 24.66 deaths per 100,000 people — more than two times higher than Germany (9.24 deaths per 100,000), and the 11 highest rate out of the more than 140 countries.
FactCheck.org says: While the United States has done more total tests for COVID-19 than any other country, it doesn't lead when testing is measured by other metrics.
FactCheck.org says: The state is in the midst of a phased reopening. Restrictions have been eased although by no means eliminated in 24 counties, and will be relaxed in another 13 on May 15.
FactCheck.org says: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there’s an increased risk for workers in both professions, but there have been significantly more reported cases among health care employees.
FactCheck.org says: There were a number of snags and miscues that prevented robust, widespread early testing, including manufacturing problems.
FactCheck.org says: South Korea ramped up COVID-19 testing much earlier than the U.S. and has performed more tests per positive case, meaning the country has been able to do more testing relative to the size of its outbreak.
FactCheck.org says: Claims are spreading the falsehood that the CDC significantly lowered the COVID-19 death toll. There has been no such reduction. These claims confuse two different measures of the number of deaths.
FactCheck.org says: The IHME model reflects some relaxation of policies as states begin to reopen, but is still trying to capture the mitigation efforts that remain.
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.
FactCheck.org says: There were several people who predicted the virus could or would spread to become a pandemic -- including members of Trump's administration.
FactCheck.org says: Social media posts reference the deaths of three young people from COVID-19 in Europe. But the posts do not show that news outlets misused the same image of one boy to report the deaths of three children.
FactCheck.org says: Flight records show China did block international commercial flights out of Wuhan after Jan. 23, according to Flightradar24, a global flight tracking service.
FactCheck.org says: There’s no evidence of such a letter, and Biden’s campaign says it “never happened.”
FactCheck.org says: The former Republican congressman did not write a conspiracy-theory post circulating on Facebook that implies, without any proof, that the outbreak was planned to help Democrats in the 2020 election.
FactCheck.org says: Posts say the CARES Act was introduced Jan 24, 2019, fueling the falsehood that the COVID-19 pandemic was planned. It was introduced March 25 as a substitute amendment, replacing the language of an older, unrelated bill.
FactCheck.org says: In fact, on the question of whether Trump obstructed justice, special counsel Robert Mueller’s report pointedly said that the investigation “does not exonerate him.”
FactCheck.org says: There have been news reports across the U.S. of workers at all of those companies becoming infected or dying of the disease.
FactCheck.org says: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a 2017 article that there were roughly 9,000 ventilators in the federal stockpile as of at least 2010, and ventilators in the U.S. stockpile had never been used.
FactCheck.org says: A post claims that mosques have been allowed to stay open, while churches have not. But all places of worship are treated the same by state regulations prohibiting religious gatherings to slow the spread of COVID-19.