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PolitiFact says: Stockton’s claim is not backed up by any scientific evidence. There have been no reports linking COVID-19 vaccines to deaths in athletes. Sports cardiologists said they haven’t seen athletes collapse after vaccination.
PolitiFact says: Determining the exact cost of illegal immigration is complex, but reports estimate that immigrants in the country illegally cost less than $155 billion annually.
PolitiFact says: It’s possible to have more raw votes and voter suppression at the same time. Nugent's statement ignores the facts of the unusual 2020 election and that we don't yet know the impact of new election restrictions.
PolitiFact says: Talks to resolve lawsuits over families separated at the border during the Trump administration included possible $450,000 payments. Biden rejected the amounts. The settlement talks eventually ended.
PolitiFact says: In recent years, experts say marijuana arrests have happened less frequently than once every 37 seconds. In 2020, there was one marijuana-related arrest every 90 seconds, and one possession arrest about every 99 seconds.
PolitiFact says: The voting rights legislation would not wipe out the role of local officials in administering elections.
PolitiFact says: The inflation rate was 7% over the past year. However, a 4.7% increase in wages has reduced the impact on the typical worker by about two-thirds, making Romney’s figure exaggerated.
PolitiFact says: Wages have gone up 4.7% but in the same time, inflation rose 7%.
PolitiFact says: The images of Greenland appear to show what could happen in hundreds of years, not in a 10-year span. The emaciated bear's condition might be due to factors other than climate change like disease, advanced age and injury
PolitiFact says: Multiple professional athletes like Kyrie Irving, Charlie Beljan and Caster Semenya have been banned, in one form or another, from competing in their sports for refusing to take medication or get the COVID-19 vaccine.
PolitiFact says: Global estimates of the polar bear population show either a modest decline or virtually no change. Whale populations are not close to recovering fully. Experts and scientific data show that koalas are vulnerable.
PolitiFact says: World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stumbled over his words, first mispronouncing the word “children” with “kil/cil.” He then corrected himself and pronounced the word “children.”
PolitiFact says: The bill would give federal money to state and local governments to improve data sharing they already do. It would not create a national vaccination database.