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“Trump’s New Idea To Profit: ‘$100 COVID-19 Commemorative Coins’”

FactCheck.org says: The coin referenced is being sold by the White House Gift Shop, which is a private company based in Pennsylvania.

“Claimed Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was saying in late February of the coronavirus: “This is no problem. This is going to blow — this is going to blow over.”

FactCheck.org says: Fauci said that "right now at this moment" the risk was "low" and there was "no need" for people "to change anything that you're doing on a day-by-day basis." But he added this could develop into a "major outbreak."

“Republican Kris Kobach’s U.S. Senate campaign in Kansas "is being bankrolled by an anti-Trump D.C. special interest group.”

FactCheck.org says: It’s true that Club for Growth backed Sen. Ted Cruz in the 2016 Republican presidential primary. But it has had a change of heart toward President Trump, and supports his administration and his policies.

“We’ve tested more than every country combined," referring to COVID-19 diagnostic testing.”

FactCheck.org says: Russia, Germany and Italy combined have done more testing than the U.S., according to Worldometer, which tracks global testing for COVID-19. Overall, 173 non-U.S. countries have been performed nearly 25 million tests.

“House Speaker Nancy "Pelosi Promises to Resign if Trump is Re-Elected”

FactCheck.org says: The claim originated on a website that calls its work satire.

“A new Pentagon study shows that people who had a flu shot are 36% more likely to get COVID-19.”

“Antibody tests will "support our efforts to get Americans back to work by showing us who might have developed the wonderful, beautiful immunity" to the novel coronavirus.”

FactCheck.org says: The tests do have the potential to relay valuable information about who might already have immunity and how widely COVID-19 has spread. But so far, the tests are not widely available and many are unreliable.

“Said of his comments about injections of disinfectant: "I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you, just to see what would happen.”

FactCheck.org says: There’s no clear indication in his remarks that Trump was joking, either in his initial comment or when he returned to the topic later in the briefing. But we’ll leave it for readers to judge.

“Trump never got a CDC team on the ground in China.”

FactCheck.org says: The ad is misleading in that it fails to mention that two U.S. health officials were admitted to China in mid-February as part of a World Health Organization team.

“Trump "shipped China 17 tons of American masks and medical supplies -- our masks and supplies. Supplies we need now.”

FactCheck.org says: The ad leaves the misleading impression that medical equipment donated by U.S.-based organizations and businesses to China early in the global coronavirus outbreak came from the Trump administration.

“Viral post shows same picture with different headlines on COVID-19 stories, asking, "That's weird the exact same people who visited the beach in Florida are now at the beaches in California?”

FactCheck.org says: Posts compare screenshots from two news sites to falsely claim that using the same image of people at the beach during the COVID-19 pandemic shows media deception. Both reports correctly identify the picture’s location.

“A picture of a journalist in Lebanon reporting on the novel coronavirus is circulating with this claim: "Reporter in full bio gear... think the media hypes this thing a little?”

FactCheck.org says: A picture of a reporter in protective gear has fueled claims in the U.S. that the media "hypes" the COVID-19 pandemic. The photo actually shows a team in Lebanon reporting on a local factory that makes protective suits.

“A viral image suggests a "Canine Coronavirus Vaccine" means a vaccine for the novel coronavirus already exists.”

FactCheck.org says: The vaccine in the viral photo is for canine coronavirus. That virus and the novel coronavirus are not the same.

“Italy was “hit hard” by the coronavirus pandemic because “a lot of the people that didn’t come in here went to Italy" when the U.S. imposed travel restrictions on China.”

FactCheck.org says: We could find no evidence to support President Trump’s claim. In fact, Italy cut off air travel to and from China two days before the U.S. enacted its travel restrictions.

“They asked for a quarter of a trillion dollars in 48 hours. I said, well, I don’t think so,” quoting Nancy Pelosi about the second round of funding for the Paycheck Protection Program.”

FactCheck.org says: The video cherry-picks quotes from Pelosi to leave the false impression that she opposes more funding for the Paycheck Protection Program. She was negotiating more money to “open this [program] up to many more people”

“Collecting a stimulus payment means, "[n]ext year, you’re automatically going to owe $1,200 come tax season.”

FactCheck.org says: False claims say COVID-19 stimulus money could reduce taxpayers' future refunds. But the IRS says the payment "will not reduce your refund or increase the amount you owe when you file your 2020 tax return next year."

“The United States has achieved a significant lower [COVID-19] mortality rate than almost all other countries.”

FactCheck.org says: As of April 16, there were at least 90 countries with a lower case fatality rate than the U.S., according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

“Alex Trebek died today" and "left behind his estate to the Trump campaign.”

“By the way, I did that very early [imposed travel restrictions on China], while Nancy Pelosi was trying to have, in San Francisco, parties in Chinatown. Because they — she thought it would be great. She wanted to show that this thing doesn’t exist.”

FactCheck.org says: During her visit to Chinatown, Pelosi never suggested that the coronavirus didn’t exist. She stressed the need for “prevention, prevention, prevention” — urging people to be “concerned and vigilant,” but not “afraid.”

“The WHO pushed China’s misinformation about the virus, saying it was not communicable.”