“People defying stay-at-home order fill Arizona beaches.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
PolitiFact says: It's a joke. Arizona is landlocked, with unexceptional surfing.
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“The government must have planned the coronavirus pandemic because the coronavirus relief bill had been introduced three years earlier.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
PolitiFact says: The introduction date of the legislation that ultimately became the CARES Act doesn’t signify anything about when the government knew about the coronavirus pandemic. It's a legislative quirk.
“A banner with a swastika, “Trump” and “Pence” is from a Michigan coronavirus protest.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: A protest against stay-at-home orders in Michigan was held April 15 at the capitol in downtown Lansing. The photo of the banner dates back at least to March 2 and appears to have been taken at a park in Boise, Idaho.
“And then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you’re going to test that too.”
PolitiFact rated this: Not part of study
PolitiFact says: The study which is not yet published or peer-reviewed looks at the impact of COVID-19 on certain surfaces and the air, and not in the body.
“Doctors could "apply light and heat" to treat COVID-19 patients.”
PolitiFact rated this: No evidence
PolitiFact says: We found no evidence that sun or ultraviolet light could help treat COVID-19 patients. Experts said certain amounts of UV light would be dangerous.
“During the 1918 flu pandemic, San Francisco residents formed the “Anti-Mask League.” San Francisco “was ultimately one of the cities that suffered the most with a high death rate.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
PolitiFact says: Residents angry about the reinstatement of a mask order did form the Anti-Mask League in January 1919.
“Even with no shutdown, Sweden has a lower COVID-19 infection rate than UK, Italy and Spain.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: The COVID-19 infection rate in Sweden is lower than in Italy, Spain and the UK. But the epidemiologist credited with developing Sweden’s strategy said infection rate is not a reliable indicator of how a nation is doing.
“Governor Gretchen Whitmer spent the past weekend at her VACATION COTTAGE at Birch Lake. Violating her own EXECUTIVE ORDER.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“I said from the beginning that no American who needs a ventilator would be denied a ventilator and we have kept that promise all over the United States.”
PolitiFact rated this: So far, it looks like it
PolitiFact says: Over 30 states said they're not aware of any COVID-19 patients needing a ventilator and not getting one. Experts said that's due to mitigation efforts to slow the spread, but things could change.
“In 1986, the founder of the Times Square Church prophesied that he saw “a plague coming on the world and the bars and church and government will shut down,” with New York City especially hard hit.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: The Times Square Church, where David Wilkerson was founder, stated that there was no record of him ever predicting this in any of his sermons, books or speeches.
“President Trump has banned welfare for illegal immigrants which will save $57.4 billion a year.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Long before Trump became president, immigrants living in the country illegally were generally ineligible for federal public benefits.
“Says the April 22 jump in COVID-19 cases was related to the election.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Jump in new Wisconsin cases was actually due in large part to an outbreak at Brown County meatpacking plants.
“The Confederacy was more about states’ rights than slavery.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
“Trump said ‘hundreds’ of governors are calling him…& we only have 50.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“We are currently using only around 20% of our testing capacity.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
“Even President Trump’s own EPA has admitted that this rule (on air pollutants) threatens to cause serious health problems including brain damage and death and to inflict billions of dollars of economic damage on our struggling economy.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: An EPA science advisory board raised issues with the EPA’s approach and recommended doing a new assessment, but that recommendation wasn’t binding.
“Face masks being manufactured in China, for example, went to domestic consumption and their own fight against the virus” while the U.S. was “largely unable to import supplies from China.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
PolitiFact says: China did have a greater need for its domestically manufactured masks in February as the virus ravaged the country, but Rubio greatly overstates the situation. Imports dropped, but they did continue.
“Hundreds and hundreds of labs are ready, willing, and able.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
PolitiFact says: There are untapped labs, but they aren't set up for COVID-19 testing. And getting them to that point takes work.
“Photo shows packed beach of re-opened Jacksonville Beach on CNN.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
PolitiFact says: The photo isn’t from Florida in the spring of coronavirus. It was taken in Brazil in 2013 during a visit from Pope Francis.
“Racial comparisons on coronavirus statistics in Monroe County, N.Y., show that the impact on minorities is “basically on par, a little bit up, from the population numbers,” meaning that “we don’t see that disparity as much here.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: She's right for deaths, but African Americans has a disproportionate share of ICU and non-ICU hospitalizations in Monroe County, and Hispanics had a disproportionate share of non-ICU hospitalizations.