“Claim: Tamil Nadu govt not approved Thanikasalam Siddha medicine for Covid 19”
Fact Crescendo rated this: False
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“Defended his late February statement that the U.S. had "contained" the virus, saying that the novel coronavirus "spread exponentially in ways that virtually no one could have predicted.”
FactCheck.org rated this: There Were Warnings
FactCheck.org says: There were several people who predicted the virus could or would spread to become a pandemic -- including members of Trump's administration.
“Does COVID-19 have a mortality rate of 1%-2%?”
USA TODAY rated this: Partly False
“First volunteer in UK coronavirus vaccine trial has died.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Florida's coronavirus outbreak "is mostly tied to New York City travel into the three Southern Florida (counties).”
PolitiFact rated this: Unproven with state data
PolitiFact says: The available data suggests that transmission has become well established in Florida with travel playing a minimal role, experts said.
“It [AIDS] was a death certificate. And then, all of a sudden, they came up with some kind of — and now we have — we will be AIDS-free within eight years. We started 10 years. Should have started in the previous administration. They did nothing.”
Washington Post rated this: False
Washington Post says: Trump's plans for fighting AIDS was built on Obama's plans, though with a more ambitious goal; both presidents spent about the same amount of money each year.
“Netizens reshare 2019 stories about President Rodrigo Duterte asking senior officials from the state health insurance agency to resign”
Vera Files rated this: Misleading
“News outlets are misusing a boy’s image to report the same child died of COVID-19 in three different countries.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: Social media posts reference the deaths of three young people from COVID-19 in Europe. But the posts do not show that news outlets misused the same image of one boy to report the deaths of three children.
“Semen, when ingested or used as a hand sanitizer, can kill and prevent the novel coronavirus.”
Vera Files rated this: False
“Walmart, Amazon, Kroger, Target and Costco “have not had any reported (coronavirus) cases in the news.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Women have gone out to shop despite the lockdown due to coronavirus”
The Quint rated this: FALSE
“China's 'plan' after coronavirus: Send contaminated sardines to PH”
FactRakers rated this: False
“Claim: Surat labour committed suicide due to covid 19 lockdown”
Fact Crescendo rated this: False
“Former Rep. Trey Gowdy wrote a viral post claiming the COVID-19 pandemic was planned and it "all seems rather convenient for the nations and opponents of our current President and economy 5 months before an election.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: The former Republican congressman did not write a conspiracy-theory post circulating on Facebook that implies, without any proof, that the outbreak was planned to help Democrats in the 2020 election.
“The CARES Act was "introduced over a year ago for a virus that allegedly did not get here until a few months ago," which proves the COVID-19 pandemic was planned.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: Posts say the CARES Act was introduced Jan 24, 2019, fueling the falsehood that the COVID-19 pandemic was planned. It was introduced March 25 as a substitute amendment, replacing the language of an older, unrelated bill.
“The (corona)virus just isn’t nearly as deadly as we thought it was.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
“Video of Alia Bhatt arriving at the hospital after Rishi Kapoor’s death”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
“WHO report – ‘No vegetarian in the world was found to have been infected with COVID-19’”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
“3-year-old girl has coronavirus”
FactRakers rated this: False
“Claim: This baby not died in Covid 19”
Fact Crescendo rated this: Partly False