“Virus shutout necklaces can protect you from coronavirus”
First Check rated this: False
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“Says Kelly Loeffler is "for getting rid of health care in the middle of a pandemic.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: Warnock's wording offered no specifics on Loeffler's health care policies or positions. Loeffler voted to allow the Trump administration to proceed with supporting a lawsuit that seeks to overturn Obamacare.
“The patented dye Luciferase produced by MIT will help countries to check on who has been vaccinated”
FACTLY rated this: MISLEADING
FACTLY says: In 2019, Massachusetts Institute of Technology did develop a novel way to record patient’s MMR vaccine history using the luciferase enzyme. However, the same has not been approved for COVID-19 vaccine
“Naturally acquired COVID-19 99.9982% percent effective.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Misleading
FactCheck.org says: It’s not known how immunity from vaccines compares to natural immunity -- and the entire point of a vaccine is to offer immunity without the risk of getting sick.
“Quotes Sen. David Perdue saying, "the risk of this virus ... still remains low.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Said on March 11
FactCheck.org says: To put these comments in the context of the moment, the day before the interview, there were about 1,500 COVID-19 cases in the U.S., with about 37 deaths.
“Sen. Kelly Loeffler “immediately” began “dumping stocks” after a January Senate briefing about the coronavirus.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Disputed
FactCheck.org says: Loeffler said the decision to sell those stocks was made independently by third-party advisers overseeing her and her husband's investments — not her.
“Ticketmaster is planning mandatory COVID vaccine identification for concert attendance.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Vaccines “will remove parts of your DNA and replace it with GENETIC CODING (TECHNOLOGY)” that will “cause people to HAVE to cooperate with the New World Order.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
“Joe Biden’s Covid-19 taskforce member recommends withholding food stamps and rent assistance from those who refuse coronavirus vaccines.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
“Video of French police assaulting Muslims for not wearing the Mask and spitting on other passengers”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: This incident took place in Romania, not in France. Romanian police arrested a group of violent football team supporters on charges of assaulting the police personnel. Romanian police also seized illegal weapons from th…
“The 17, 727 COVID recoveries reported on Nov. 1 alone was "national record-shattering.”
Vera Files rated this: Needs context
Vera Files says: The 17,727 recoveries reported on Nov. 1 resulted from a week-long data reconciliation under the Department of Health's Oplan Recovery.
“A member of Joe Biden’s COVID-19 task force recommends “withholding food stamps and rent assistance from those who refuse coronavirus vaccines.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
“New Zealand contact traced COVID back to a trash can lid and an elevator button”
MediaWise rated this: Legit
MediaWise says: Trusted local reporting and public health authorities have confirmed that New Zealand did contact trace coronavirus transmission back to a trash can lid and an elevator button.
“@Pfizer and the others would only announce a Vaccine after the Election, because they didn’t have the courage to do it before. Likewise, the @US_FDA should have announced it earlier, not for political purposes”
FactCheck.org rated this: No Evidence
FactCheck.org says: Pfizer has said the timing of its announcement was not politically motivated and was dictated only by science. The FDA hasn’t commented on the vaccine.
“Mitt Romney has been asked to lead Health and Human Services in Biden administration.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“By wearing masks daily, your major organs can get too much carbon dioxide and not enough oxygen which can lead to organ damage and failure”
Vera Files rated this: False
“WHO Doctors taking a U-turn on quarantine and social distancing norms during the COVID-19 pandemic”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: The speakers in the video are not WHO doctors. It is a group of doctors alliance who are spreading false news about the COVID-19 pandemic on how social distancing, quarantine, or isolation are not required to combat the…
“Doctors are profiting by declaring "everybody dies of COVID”
The Dispatch Fact Check rated this: False
“His chief of staff last week said, ‘We’re going to do nothing about the virus. It’s here.’”
FactCheck.org rated this: Exaggerates
FactCheck.org says: White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows actually said, “We are not going to control the pandemic. We are going to control the fact that we get vaccines, therapeutics and other mitigation areas.”
“Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ government-run health care plan… could lead to hospitals being closed, put Medicare coverage at risk, and give benefits to illegal immigrants.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
PolitiFact says: Joe Biden’s health care plan includes an option for people to buy into government managed health care, but that would not be the only option.