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Joy Behar stated on March 09, 2020 in an episode of ABC's "The View":

“(Barack Obama) set up anti-pandemic programs in 47 vulnerable countries as a way to protect against something like the coronavirus, exactly. Do you know that Trump closed 37 of them?”

By Bill McCarthy• March 12, 2020

Lucy McBath stated on September 28, 2020 in an ad:

Says Karen Handel "slashed the Centers for Disease Control's ability to fight diseases, cutting millions in research funding."

By Tom Kertscher• October 23, 2020

TikTok posts stated on April 26, 2023 in a TikTok post:

Fauci, DOD and CDC funded deadly pathogen research at Sudan lab

By Jill Terreri Ramos• May 8, 2023

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated on November 17, 2025 in remarks at George Washington University:

“We’re not cutting science. We’re not cutting research.”

By Madison Czopek• November 20, 2025

X posts stated on May 06, 2026 in an X post:

An American passenger on the cruise ship involved in the hantavirus outbreak is a "crisis actor."

By Maria Briceño• May 14, 2026

Facebook posts stated on December 14, 2021 in a Facebook post:

The COVID-19 vaccines cause AIDS.

By Samantha Putterman• December 15, 2021

TikTok posts stated on May 08, 2026 in una publicación en TikTok:

Imágenes muestran a personas “infectadas con Hantavirus”.

By Maria Briceño• May 13, 2026

Nick Seymour stated on January 07, 2017 in an op-ed:

Tuberculosis recently passed "HIV/AIDS as the leading infectious killer globally."

By Jon Greenberg• January 11, 2017

Matthew Rosendale stated on November 01, 2023 in a fundraising ad:

“It’s been revealed that Fauci brought COVID to the Montana one year before COVID broke out in the U.S.!”

By Katheryn Houghton• February 5, 2024

Joe Biden stated on May 14, 2020 in an interview on MSNBC:

The U.S. had 44 CDC staffers “in China to observe what was going on. (President Trump) brought home the vast majority of them, I think left only four in place.”

By Jon Greenberg• May 21, 2020

Rudy Giuliani stated on April 26, 2020 in a tweet:

"Why did the US (NIH) in 2017 give $3.7m to the Wuhan Lab in China? Such grants were prohibited in 2014. Did Pres. Obama grant an exception?"

By Jon Greenberg• May 1, 2020

Instagram posts stated on October 17, 2022 in an Instagram post:

“Boston University CREATES a new COVID strain that has an 80% kill rate.”

By Jeff Cercone• October 20, 2022

Bloggers stated on July 28, 2014 in a blog post:

Says George Soros and Bill Gates are funding a bioweapons lab in Sierra Leone that caused the Ebola outbreak.

By Katie Sanders• August 11, 2014

Public Citizen stated on June 29, 2020 in a tweet:

“Taxpayers spent $70,000,000 to develop this drug ( remdesivir)."

By Madeline Heim• July 23, 2020

Jimmy Kimmel stated on May 01, 2017 in a monologue on his show:

"President Trump last month proposed a $6 billion cut in funding to the National Institutes of Health. And thank God our congressmen made a deal last night to not go along with that. They actually increased funding by $2 billion."

By Louis Jacobson• May 3, 2017

Brett Giroir stated on August 02, 2020 in an interview on NBC's Meet the Press:

“There have been five randomized controlled, placebo controlled trials that do not show any benefit to hydroxychloroquine.”

By Jon Greenberg• August 5, 2020

Facebook posts stated on December 08, 2020 in a Facebook post:

"If all goes 'well' it'll become federal law to get the (COVID-19) vaccine."

By Miriam Valverde• December 11, 2020

JD Vance stated on September 10, 2024 in an interview:

“Communicable diseases like HIV and TB (tuberculosis) have skyrocketed” after Haitian migrants came to Springfield, Ohio.

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• September 26, 2024

James Rockall stated on May 09, 2017 in a tweet:

"More (people) die from indoor air pollution than from malaria, HIV/AIDS and TB combined."

By Smitha Rajan• May 18, 2017

George Will stated on October 19, 2014 in comments on "Fox News Sunday":

Some doctors say Ebola can be transmitted through the air by "a sneeze or some cough."

By Jon Greenberg• October 19, 2014

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