“The number of COVID-19 cases in the United States "are going very substantially down, not up.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Spins the Facts
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“With Ebola, we were talking about it before, you disintegrated. If you got Ebola, that was it. [Coronavirus] is like a flu, and this is a much different situation than Ebola.”
Washington Post rated this: False
“Coronavirus patients are being "cremated alive" in China.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“High levels of sulfur dioxide in Wuhan “may be a sign of mass cremations of victims of the coronavirus.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
“Says the CDC recommends men shave their beards to protect against coronavirus.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“The coronavirus is the common cold, folks.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“The Simpsons” predicted the coronavirus.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
“(A recent study) said ‘Medicare for All’ will lower health care costs in this country by $450 billion a year and save the lives of 68,000 people who would otherwise have died.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
“Ninety pounds of cocaine was found on a boat owned by Mitch McConnell's family and that they are “financing his Senate campaigns with their cocaine drug profits.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
“Says Bernie Sanders has said “things like women get cancer from having too many orgasms, or toddlers should run around naked and touch each others' genitals to insulate themselves from porn … He's written about women's rape fantasies.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
“The 2008 book “End of Days” predicted the current coronavirus outbreak.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“20 million Chinese converted to Islam after it’s proven that the coronavirus doesn’t affect Muslims.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
“Breaking: UK Prepares For Full Lockdown After Hundreds Of New Cases — Wuhan Super Virus Updates.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Claim: Medical advice for snake bite”
Fact Crescendo rated this: FALSE
“Claim: Vaccines impact your health”
Fact Crescendo rated this: FALSE
“Says “black babies die at rates twice as high as white babies because of a lack of access to affordable health care.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
“Amy, I looked online at your (health care) plan. It’s two paragraphs.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Bernie Sanders wants free health care for all and was asked how he would pay for it. His answer was raise taxes to 52% on anybody making over $29,000 per year.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Sen. Bernie Sanders said at a debate that his solution for paying for "free health care for all" was to "raise taxes to 52% on anybody making over $29,000 per year.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
“Social media posts imply that Harvard professor Charles Lieber was arrested in connection with the new coronavirus.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False