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Latest Fact-Checks In Coronavirus

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Kevin Brady
stated on December 8, 2022 in a statement:
Joe Biden’s $36 billion for a union pension fund is “the largest private pension bailout in American history.”
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By Tom Kertscher • December 14, 2022
Kathy Hochul
stated on February 27, 2022 in a news conference:
“We are No. 1 among all large states in having fully vaccinated teenagers. We are No. 2 in all large states for having fully vaccinated five- to 11- year-olds.”
True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • March 11, 2022
Roger Williams
stated on December 2, 2021 in an email:
“The number of COVID-19 deaths recorded so far in 2021 has surpassed the total for 2020.”
True
By Nusaiba Mizan • January 18, 2022
Jen Psaki
stated on January 10, 2022 in a White House press briefing:
“You are 17 times more likely to go to the hospital if you’re not vaccinated, 20 times more likely to die.”
True
By Madison Czopek • January 12, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on October 13, 2021 in a Facebook post:
“Southwest Airlines announce they will no longer terminate employees over the mandate.”
True
By Andy Nguyen • October 22, 2021
Kathryn Moffett Bradford
stated on September 1, 2021 in comments at a WVU faculty meeting:
“If you look at the hospitalizations at Ruby Memorial in West Virginia, and around the country, 90% to 95% of those hospitalized are unvaccinated.”
True
By Abigail Mulhern, Emma Copley • October 5, 2021
Viral image
stated on August 18, 2021 in in a photo in a reddit thread:
A photo shows two COVID-19 patients lying on the floor awaiting treatment in Florida.
True
By Amy Sherman • August 20, 2021
Greg Abbott
stated on May 18, 2021 in an interview:
“We now have more job openings than we do people who are on unemployment. We have 60% more job openings today than we did the month before the pandemic hit the state of Texas.”
True
By Brandon Mulder • May 21, 2021
Zach Wahls
stated on April 8, 2021 in a weekly newsletter:
“The federal American Rescue Plan will purchase more food from farmers for distribution.”
True
By Brian Grace • April 22, 2021
Tony Evers
stated on March 14, 2021 in TV interview:
“There’s still (only) a handful of school districts” doing no in-person instruction.
True
By Madeline Heim • March 29, 2021
Gordon Hintz
stated on February 5, 2021 in TV interview:
“We know mask mandates work. There’s enough evidence out there between counties that have done it and counties that haven’t.”
True
By Haley BeMiller • February 12, 2021
Marco Rubio
stated on January 22, 2021 in a tweet:
Says Joe Biden “has issued more executive fiats than anyone in such a short period of time, ever, more than Obama, more than Trump, more than anyone.”
True
By Miriam Valverde • January 27, 2021
Pat Toomey
stated on January 19, 2021 in a hearing:
“There will be several thousand dollars in payments going to families with six-figure incomes who’ve had no income interruption whatsoever.”
True
By Jessica Calefati • January 21, 2021
Kirk Cox
stated on January 13, 2021 in a speech.:
Virginia ranks “in the bottom third of states” in administering the COVID-19 vaccine.
True
By Warren Fiske • January 20, 2021
Pat Toomey
stated on December 27, 2020 in an interview:
“In my state, as in many other states, we have governors who are closing down businesses again.”
True
By Jessica Calefati • December 30, 2020
Mike Gallagher
stated on December 7, 2020 in a tweet:
“New data shows in-person learning isn’t driving spikes in cases.”
True
By Eric Litke • December 18, 2020
JB Pritzker
stated on November 17, 2020 in remarks at a news conference:
“Republican elected officials, a network of propaganda publications in the state and some radio shock jocks” were spreading “a lie” about his daughter breaking COVID-19 restrictions.
True
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • December 6, 2020
Mandy Cohen
stated on December 1, 2020 in a press conference:
Says COVID-19 has killed more North Carolinians in a year than the flu has in 10 years.
True
By Paul Specht • December 4, 2020
Roy Cooper
stated on October 14, 2020 in a debate:
Says Dan Forest has “missed almost half of the Board of Education meetings during the pandemic.”
True
By Paul Specht • October 30, 2020
Roy Cooper
stated on October 14, 2020 in a debate:
Georgia has “almost 100,000 more (COVID-19) cases, almost twice as many deaths and almost 600 more nursing home deaths than North Carolina.”
True
By Paul Specht • October 15, 2020
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