“This says that New York Governor Cuomo rejected buying recommended 16,000 ventilators in 2015 for the pandemic — for a pandemic; established death panels and lotteries instead.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Misleading
Donald Trump
President of the United States. 1,168 claims checked by other fact-checking organisations, from 2018 to 2026. The ratings are theirs, in their own words.
“We had other administrations, not just the last one, they built up a platform, they built up a test but the test was no good. It didn’t handle large numbers of people.”
Washington Post rated this: False
“You have suicides over things like this when you have terrible economies. You have death. Probably — and I mean definitely — would be in far greater numbers than the numbers that we’re talking about with regard to the virus.”
The New York Times rated this: This lacks evidence.
“Andrew Cuomo refused to buy 16,000 ventilators in 2015 for pandemic preparedness”
The Dispatch Fact Check rated this: Mixed
“Says N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo “rejected buying recommended 16,000 ventilators in 2015 for the pandemic, for a pandemic, established death panels and lotteries instead. So, he had a chance to buy, in 2015, 16,000 ventilators at a very low price, and he turned it down.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic "was a flu where if you got it you had a 50/50 chance, or very close, of dying.”
FactCheck.org rated this: No Evidence
“There’s been some tremendous signs that this could work. Now, again, you know, some doctors think it should go for years in testing. But, you know, this has been something that’s been around for many years. It’s been phenomenal — a strong, powerful drug for malaria. But we think it might work on this [COVID-19], based on evidence — based on very strong evidence.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Evidence Is Slim
“We've done more tests in eight days than South Korea has done in eight weeks.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“I wish they [China] told us three months sooner that this [the coronavirus] was a problem. We didn’t know about it. They knew about it and they should have told us.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Exaggerates
“Nobody knew there’d be a pandemic or an epidemic of this proportion.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Experts Have Issued Warnings
“The World Health Organization test for the new coronavirus "was a bad test.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
“Chloroquine has "gone through the approval process; it's been approved. And [the FDA] took it down from many, many months to immediate. So we're going to be able to make that drug available by prescription.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Misleading
“Says that “over a 45-minute period that we had the press conference” on the coronavirus on March 13, 2020, the stock market set "an all-time record.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
“I think the 3.4% is really a false number," referring to the World Health Organization saying 3.4% of reported COVID-19 patients worldwide have died.”
FactCheck.org rated this: We Explain the Number
“I've always known this is a real, this is a pandemic. I've felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
“The WHO coronavirus test “was a bad test.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Google is helping to develop a website. It’s going to be very quickly done, unlike websites of the past, to determine whether a test is warranted and to facilitate testing at a nearby convenient location. We have many, many locations behind us, by the way. We cover the — this country in large part.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Distorts the Facts
“Says Joe Biden “was in charge of the H1N1 Swine Flu epidemic which killed thousands of people. The response was one of the worst on record. Our response is one of the best, with fast action of border closings & a 78% Approval Rating, the highest on record. His was lowest!”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
“If you go back and look at the swine flu, and what happened with the swine flu ... and how actually nothing was done for such a long period of time, as people were dying all over the place.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
“During the 2009 swine flu outbreak, Biden made reckless comments unsupported by science & the experts. The Obama Admin had to clean up his mess & apologize for his ineptitude.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True