PolitiFact is a United States fact-checking site run by the Poynter Institute. It rates claims by politicians and viral posts on its Truth-O-Meter, from True to Pants on Fire.
PolitiFact says: There’s no evidence Bill O’Reilly wrote a lengthy essay that pushes a debunked conspiracy theory about the origins of the coronavirus.
PolitiFact says: There’s no evidence that implanted microchips are being contemplated in a serious way to fight the coronavirus. Meanwhile, the claim on mandatory vaccinations is exaggerated.
PolitiFact says: The Gates Foundation has not been assigned any patents related to the novel coronavirus.
PolitiFact says: The Gates Foundation has long supported polio vaccination efforts in India. But there is no evidence that 496,000 children were paralyzed due to a polio vaccine.
PolitiFact says: Biden conflated two different metrics: the number of projected available tests in the market and the number of people in the U.S. actually tested.
PolitiFact says: OSHA did not release any COVID-19 enforcement instructions for its inspectors until April 13, however it told inspectors to focus on its existing general safety standards, not recommendations geared toward the outbreak.
PolitiFact says: Large majorities of Americans, and even sizable majorities of Republicans, remain concerned that lifting stay-at-home orders could accelerate the spread of coronavirus.
PolitiFact says: There’s no evidence herd immunity has limited coronavirus deaths in California, which adopted stay-at-home measures before New York did.
PolitiFact says: Both Kennedy and PBS are nonprofits that are prohibited by law from making political donations. Federal election records show they have not made any such donations.
PolitiFact says: There are a lot of ways to slice coronavirus data, but this overreaches. Most metrics showed the state infection rate was flat at the time of this statement.
PolitiFact says: It’s standard for Medicare to pay a hospital roughly three times as much for a patient who goes on a ventilator, as for one who doesn’t. Medicare is paying a 20% add-on to its regular hospital payments for the treatment
PolitiFact says: A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel photo showed one protester carrying two flags, including the Confederate flag. Analyses show the photo was not doctored.
PolitiFact says: On this date, the CDC announced the investigation of a new disease in Wuhan. Two days later they announced that "the risk from the Novel Coronavirus 2019 to the American public is deemed to be low."