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Search results for "Hospitalization rates for illnesses like COVID, flu have doubled since pre-pandemic"

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Fact-checks (25953)

Instagram posts stated on December 06, 2022 in a video:
There are a record high cases of flu in the U.S. this year, and “last year there were none.”
By Jeff Cercone• December 15, 2022
Dan Forest stated on September 02, 2020 in an interview:
"All evidence points to the fact that our kids are 17 times more likely to have ill effects from the seasonal flu than they are from the coronavirus.”
By Paul Specht• September 14, 2020
Facebook posts stated on November 10, 2021 in a Facebook post:
"Italy drastically reduced the country’s official COV1D-19 death count by over 97%. This means Covid killed fewer people than an average seasonal flu.”
By Samantha Putterman, Luiz Romero• November 10, 2021
Instagram posts stated on March 02, 2024 in an Instagram post:
“The CDC officially agrees with ‘conspiracy theorists’ from 2020” who wanted to treat COVID-19 like the flu.
By Jeff Cercone• March 8, 2024
Ron DeSantis stated on August 10, 2020 in during a televised roundtable discussion on education:
“The fact is that in terms of the risk to schoolkids, this is lower risk than seasonal influenza.”
By Phil Galewitz• August 20, 2020
Facebook posts stated on April 27, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Hospitals get paid $750 for patients who die from the flu, $17,500 for COVID-19.
By Tom Kertscher• May 18, 2020
Facebook posts stated on April 18, 2020 in a Facebook post:
“The flu killed 80,000 people in the U.S. last year”
By Amy Sherman• May 6, 2020
Dr. Drew Pinsky stated on February 03, 2020 in a Daily Blast Live segment:
“You’re more likely to die of influenza right now” than the 2019 coronavirus.
By Daniel Funke• March 10, 2020
Bloggers stated on September 27, 2021 in Articles:
Norway decided “that (the coronavirus) should be treated like other respiratory diseases, such as the flu or cold, because… it is no more dangerous than those mentioned.”
By Noah Y. Kim• September 30, 2021
Facebook posts stated on May 21, 2022 in a Facebook post:
They passed the flu off as COVID-19, and “they’re going to do the same thing with monkeypox and shingles.”
By Jeff Cercone• May 26, 2022
Facebook posts stated on April 01, 2022 in in a post:
2004 video shows Anthony Fauci is ignoring science on natural immunity with regard to COVID-19.
By Jeff Cercone• April 8, 2022
Ron Johnson stated on August 13, 2020 in radio interview:
For younger people, seasonal flu is “in many cases” a deadlier virus than COVID-19
By Madeline Heim• September 8, 2020
Facebook posts stated on May 18, 2023 in a Facebook post:
"The NEXT pandemic is here and children are the target, says Bill Gates.”
By Jeff Cercone• May 25, 2023
Rush Limbaugh stated on February 24, 2020 in an episode of his radio show:
“The coronavirus is the common cold, folks.”
By Bill McCarthy• February 27, 2020
Facebook posts stated on April 06, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Says the Asian, Hong Kong, swine and bird flus each “killed more people than coronavirus.”
By Tom Kertscher• April 14, 2020
Candace Owens stated on April 06, 2020 in a tweet:
“Everyone is only dying of coronavirus now.”
By Jon Greenberg• April 14, 2020
TikTok posts stated on November 30, 2023 in a TikTok video:
“Mysterious pneumonia” from China is now in Ohio.
By Jeff Cercone• December 8, 2023
Alex Berenson stated on October 19, 2021 in an article:
In the United Kingdom, “70-plus percent of the people who die now from COVID are fully vaccinated.”
By Tom Kertscher• October 29, 2021
Facebook posts stated on February 02, 2022 in a post:
Turkey, Brazil, Britain, Sweden, Spain, Czech Republic, Mexico, El Salvador, Japan and Singapore canceled all COVID-19 quarantine procedures, testing and compulsory vaccination and are considering COVID-19 “just a seasonal flu.”
By Monique Curet• February 7, 2022
Facebook posts stated on March 28, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Pictures and reports of “empty hospitals” prove COVID-19 spread is “fake crisis for real government planned agendas.”
By Tom Kertscher• April 3, 2020

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