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Reproductive Health Reporter

Shefali Luthra is The 19th’s reproductive health reporter. She's covered health care for more than a decade, starting at the Texas Tribune, where she wrote about abortion restrictions and the rollout of the Affordable Care Act, before moving to KFF Health News.

Featured Statements

Martha McSally
stated on June 22, 2020 in a campaign ad:

“Of course I will always protect those with preexisting conditions. Always.”

By Shefali Luthra • June 25, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on June 15, 2020 in remarks during a roundtable discussion:

“If we stopped testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any.”

By Shefali Luthra • June 17, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on May 11, 2020 in comments in the Rose Garden:

“Germany and the United States are the two best in deaths per 100,000 people, which, frankly, to me, that's perhaps the most important number there is.”

By Shefali Luthra • May 13, 2020
Ralph Northam
stated on May 1, 2020 in a news conference.:

Technology coming to Virginia allows COVID-19 personal protection equipment to be “decontaminated and reused 20 times without degrading performance.”

By Warren Fiske • May 12, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on April 27, 2020 in comments made during a White House briefing:

“We’ve tested more than every country combined.”

By Shefali Luthra • April 30, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on April 23, 2020 in comments made during a White House media briefing on the coronavirus:

“We’re also using a sterilization process ― some great equipment that will sterilize masks up to 20 times per mask. So that’s like ordering 20 times more masks.”

By Shefali Luthra • April 29, 2020
Barack Obama
stated on April 14, 2020 in his online video endorsement of Joe Biden for president:

Republicans “have shown themselves willing to cut millions off their health insurance and eliminate preexisting condition protections for millions more, even in the middle of this public health crisis."

By Shefali Luthra • April 16, 2020
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 8, 2020 in an op-ed published in The Guardian:

“It has been estimated that only 12% of workers in businesses that are likely to stay open during this crisis are receiving paid sick leave benefits as a result of the second coronavirus relief package."

By Shefali Luthra • April 13, 2020
Jesse Watters
stated on March 31, 2020 in comments made during an episode of "The Five" on the Fox News Channel:

“We were slow with the testing, but very quick with the travel ban. And that's been much more critical in saving lives.”

By Shefali Luthra • April 3, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on March 24, 2020 in Fox News town hall:

"We've done more tests in eight days than South Korea has done in eight weeks."

By Shefali Luthra • March 25, 2020

RFK Jr. fired everyone on a key vaccine panel. Here’s who he replaced them with.

By Shefali Luthra • June 18, 2025
Fact-checking Donald Trump's 2020 State of the Union address

By PolitiFact Staff • February 5, 2020
Fact-checking Elizabeth Warren in Davenport, Iowa

By Amy Sherman • January 27, 2020
The Stump Speech Analyzer: Amy Klobuchar

By Jon Greenberg • January 23, 2020
The Stump Speech Analyzer: Joe Biden

By Amy Sherman • January 23, 2020
Bloomberg on health care: Translating his mayoral record to the national stage

By Shefali Luthra • January 23, 2020
Fact-checking the seventh Democratic presidential debate in Iowa

By PolitiFact Staff • January 15, 2020
Team Trump says administration’s action on health care ‘is working.’ Is it?

By Shefali Luthra • January 13, 2020
Fact-checking the fifth Democratic presidential debate in Atlanta

By PolitiFact Staff • November 21, 2019
What do GOP efforts to undo Affordable Care Act mean for pre-existing conditions?

By Amy Sherman • November 12, 2019