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Jessica Calefati is the PolitiFact Pennsylvania staff writer and a staff writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Featured Statements

Brian Fitzpatrick
stated on May 5, 2020 in a radio interview:

“For the World Health Organization, the international entity whose sole responsibility it is to alert the world of global pandemics like this, to miss this, is a huge problem.”

By Jessica Calefati • May 30, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on May 25, 2020 in a tweet:

“[U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb] said he would NOT vote for [Nancy Pelosi] for Speaker, and did.”

By Jessica Calefati • May 27, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on May 11, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“Gov. Wolf is not allowing companies that distribute U.S. flags to ship out orders to be placed at veteran’s graves for Memorial Day.”

By Jessica Calefati • May 19, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on May 14, 2020 in a speech:

“You have areas of Pennsylvania that are barely affected and [the governor wants] to keep them closed.”

By Jessica Calefati • May 18, 2020
Mike Turzai
stated on May 9, 2020 in a video:

“Guess what, [children are] not at risk unless they have an underlying medical issue.”

By Jessica Calefati • May 14, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on March 18, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“The poor are, ironically, the most likely to be employed in the industries deemed ‘essential’ while their upper-class peers are freed to bunker down for weeks until the first death wave passes.”

By Jessica Calefati • April 21, 2020
Pat Toomey
stated on April 15, 2020 in a Politico interview:

“In a matter of days, and in some cases the moment may even have passed, that we’ve reached the peak of the rate of infections.”

By Jessica Calefati • April 16, 2020
Rick Santorum
stated on April 13, 2020 in on CNN:

"The president looks like he was ahead of the curve – as you know, he talks about this all the time – on shutting down travel from China."

By Jessica Calefati • April 14, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on March 16, 2020 in a Facebook post:

The government is closing businesses to stop the spread of coronavirus even though "the numbers are nothing compared to H1N1 or Ebola. Everyone needs to realize our government is up to something ...”

By Jessica Calefati • April 6, 2020
Brian Fitzpatrick
stated on March 23, 2020 in comments he made on the radio:

“We’ve got to give the American public a rough estimate of how long we think this is going to take, based mostly on the South Korean model, which seems to be the trajectory that we are on, thankfully, and not the Italian model.”

By Jessica Calefati • April 1, 2020