4,075 claims on this topic checked by other fact-checking organisations. Topics are sorted by the words in each claim and cover English-language checks.
FactCheck.org says: A picture of a reporter in protective gear has fueled claims in the U.S. that the media "hypes" the COVID-19 pandemic. The photo actually shows a team in Lebanon reporting on a local factory that makes protective suits.
FactCheck.org says: The vaccine in the viral photo is for canine coronavirus. That virus and the novel coronavirus are not the same.
PolitiFact says: There’s no evidence herd immunity has limited coronavirus deaths in California, which adopted stay-at-home measures before New York did.
FactCheck.org says: We could find no evidence to support President Trump’s claim. In fact, Italy cut off air travel to and from China two days before the U.S. enacted its travel restrictions.
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.
Washington Post says: These were donations by private charities and public companies; all the State Department did was supply planes that would have been empty anyway.
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