Social media posts
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Social media posts featuring a photo of a vial of canine coronavirus vaccine is legitimate, but the vaccine is for a gastrointestinal issue in dogs and has nothing to do with COVID-19.
Rudy Giuliani, Personal lawyer for President Donald Trump
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: The lab got about $600,000. U.S. policy specifically allowed the kind of work it was doing for the project.
Social media posts
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
PolitiFact says: Pelosi last visited China in November 2015.
Social media posts
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: The best evidence so far says the virus was not created in a lab. The lab in Wuhan got about $600,000 over a five year period.
Social media posts
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
PolitiFact says: The video is manipulated. It’s an example of “doctoring.”
Andrew Cuomo, Governor of New York
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: New York state law does permit the governor to seize school-closing powers in a declared emergency, but Cuomo hasn’t seized those particular powers.
Social media posts
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
Donald Trump, U.S. president
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
PolitiFact says: There is no reasonable way to conclude that the American system has run more diagnostics than "all other major countries combined." Just by adding up a few other nations’ totals, Trump’s claim quickly falls apart.
Social media posts
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
PolitiFact says: Experts say it’s too early to say for sure, but it’s eradicating COVID-19 will be a difficult undertaking — even after a vaccine. Many expect it to remain in the environment and ebb and flow like the seasonal flu
Social media posts
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
Jamie Nadler, medical director at Buffalo General Medical Center
PolitiFact rated this: True
PolitiFact says: At least two Chinese studies have found initial success with convalescent plasma therapy, in which antibodies from recovered coronavirus patients are given to seriously ill patients.
Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
PolitiFact says: Cuomo is basically right, though he addressed only one segment of the stimulus aid, and he glossed over the distinction between aid to states and aid to health care providers within those states.
Social media posts
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
PolitiFact says: Not all Americans married to immigrants are barred from getting a stimulus check. That applies to couples that filed a joint tax return, one using a Social Security number and the other using an ITIN.
Donald Trump, President of the United States
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: The FDA granted emergency authorization to new technology that can sterilize respirator masks up to 20 times. In many cases, normal wear and tear means N95 respirators cannot be sanitized and reused safely.
Social media posts
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
Social media posts
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
Robin Vos, State Assembly Speaker
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
Social media posts
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Health experts say there is no evidence that injecting ultraviolet light into the body would kill viruses like the novel coronavirus.
Social media posts
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
PolitiFact says: The rate of confirmed coronavirus cases is rising faster in Sweden than in Norway and Denmark, and Sweden has a higher death rate.
Social media posts
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: The World Health Organization and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said there is no evidence that COVID-19 is transmitted by mosquitoes.