Russia’s sovereign wealth fund has set a timeline to prepare around 100 million doses of Sputnik V in India before 2021.
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Health Feedback→ Assessment of the evolution of the number of COVID-19 cases is based on SARS-CoV-2 specific test. No confusion with flu or common cold is possible.
REVIEW Claims circulated in early September 2020 stating that the common cold or flu can be mistaken for COVID-19, suggesting that current and future cases of COVID-19 should instead be attributed to common cold or flu. Posts making these claims pro
Logically→ Biden: CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield contradicted Trump’s stance on mask usage by suggesting widespread mask wearing could save 100,000 lives between now and January.
Though Dr. Redfield did advocate for wearing masks to curtail the spread of coronavirus, he did not quote any numbers.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CNN Did NOT Demand Kayleigh McEnany Resign As White House Press Secretary
Did CNN demand that Kayleigh McEnany resign as White House press secretary for "perpetuating the lies" of President Trump to the media over COVID-19 health risks? No, that is not true. CNN did not author a piece demanding she step down; i
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The Article Accusing China Of Loosing COVID From A Lab Is NOT Tested Science
Did a scientific study prove the Chinese government cooked up the novel coronavirus and loosed it on the world? No, that's not true: The claim is made in a self-published article produced by doctors who identify themselves as part of a po
Poynter→ Here’s how the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally’s may have spread the coronavirus
PolitiFact and MediaWise are teaming up to debunk misinformation about the coronavirus crisis. To have Coronavirus Facts delivered to your inbox weekly, click here. It’s good to be back after some time off. Let’s get right to it: In early August, m
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The World Health Organization And The Queen of England Do NOT Want To Remove Children From COVID-Infected Homes
Do the World Health Organization (WHO) and Queen Elizabeth II want to remove children from COVID-infected homes? No, that's not true: That is a made-up claim that stems from two videos. The first is a snippet of a March 30, 2020, press co
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘PCR’ Test For COVID Does NOT Inflate Case Count By 90%
Has the widely-used PCR test for COVID-19 returned false positive results, exaggerating the number of Americans infected? No, that's not true: The test accurately determines whether patients' nasal swabs show infection. But anti-quarantin
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘PCR’ Test For COVID Does NOT Inflate Case Count By 90%
Has the widely-used PCR test for COVID-19 returned false positive results, exaggerating the number of Americans infected? No, that's not true: The test accurately determines whether patients' nasal swabs show infection. But anti-quarantin
Logically→ Trump: I did not downplay the threat of the virus. I up-played it in terms of action
Trump repeatedly played down the threat of the virus, often comparing it to the flu and was slow in effectively responding to the virus.
Logically→ Trump: We were short on ventilators because the cupboards were bare when we took it over.
Around 16,660 working ventilators were available at the start of the pandemic. This was also the number of ventilators inherited by Trump admin.
Logically→ Joe Biden did not call on all governors to have a mandate on masks.
On Aug. 13, Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden called on all U.S. governors to mandate mask wearing to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
Logically→ The U.S. excess mortality rate is better than that of Europe.
Experts say comparing excess mortality rate cannot be relied on as an absolute measure of gauging the impact of coronavirus in different countries.
Logically→ Nancy Pelosi was standing in the streets of Chinatown in San Francisco saying “coronavirus is totally exaggerated.”
Pelosi urged people to shop and eat there at a time when tourism was suffering because of the coronavirus, but never said it's exaggerated.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: A Math Mistake Did NOT Cause U.S. Leaders To Panic And Order COVID Lockdowns
Did a math mistake by America's most visible pandemic fighter panic U.S. leaders into imposing strict quarantines? No, that's not true: A published claim by a Kremlin-controlled propaganda website offers no evidence that a statistic known
Health Feedback→ Cloth masks are effective at reducing virus transmission because it spreads in respiratory droplets, which are larger than smoke particles and the pores in fabric
REVIEW Memes appeared on Facebook in late August 2020 claiming that cloth masks are ineffective at reducing virus transmission because smoke particles are larger than virus particles and cannot be filtered by cloth masks (see examples here and here)
Poynter→ The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally’s impact on the coronavirus, explained
If your time is short It’s hard to determine the precise impact of a large-scale event on the spread of the coronavirus. Contact tracing misses a lot of cases. Statistical methods used to make estimates often rely on assumptions that are difficult to
Logically→ Trump used the Defense Production Act to order U.S. manufacturers to increase the production of N95 masks.
President Trump signed a Memorandum invoking DPA which directed 3M, an American company that produces N95 respirators, to scale up production.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Canada Has NOT Criminalized Measures That Require Masks, Social Distancing And Other COVID Precautions
Did Canada on Sept. 8, 2020, criminalize government measures that require the wearing of masks, as well as social distancing, vaccinations, and other protective measures that help thwart the spread of COVID-19? No, that is not true. The n
Poynter→ Kayleigh McEnany said Trump never downplayed the virus. He did, and Woodward’s tape explains why.
If your time is short Between the end of January and mid-March, Trump told the public that the virus was well under control and presented little risk. He told Bob Woodward that he played down the virus to avoid creating panic. See the sources for this
Logically→ ‘Coronavirus is Gone’ declares Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh to a packed rally in Hooghly district.
Dilip Ghosh, a BJP politician from West Bengal declared that the COVID-19 was over and the lockdowns imposed in the state were politically motivated.
Health Feedback→ Misinterpreted New York Times report leads to false claim that the number of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. is inflated by up to 90%
REVIEW The claim that the U.S. has an inflated COVID-19 case count due to the sensitivity of the diagnostic PCR test for the virus that causes COVID-19 has been published in several media outlets including One America News Network, The Blaze, Red St
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: There is NOT An ‘Irrefutable Paper Trail’ To Prove COVID-19 Is Lab-made
Is there an "irrefutable paper trail" that shows COVID-19 was manufactured in a laboratory? No, that's not true: Screenshots taken from the rapid-fire display of documents in the video making that claim show only that a number of scientis
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Ohio Is NOT Setting Up FEMA Camps To Separate Children From Parents During COVID-19 Outbreak — Governor Calls Claims ‘Garbage’ And ‘Ridiculous’
Is Ohio setting up FEMA camps to separate children from parents during the COVID-19 outbreak? No, that's not true. Gov. Mike DeWine shot down the claims that the state would be forcing parents with coronavirus and children to be split up
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘New’ Research Is NOT New, Does NOT Find Average 50- To 64-Year-Olds Have A 1-in-19.1-Million Chance Of Dying From COVID-19
Does a "new" scientific paper definitively show that people aged 50-64 have a 1-in-19.1 million chance of dying from COVID-19? No, this is not true. The paper, which is not new as it was posted June and studies a one-week period in May, h
Truth or Fiction?→ Was the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally a Super-Spreader Event?
September 8 2020 marked approximately one month from the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota, and it heralded purported news that the widely-attended gathering served as a “super-spreader event” during an ongoing COVID-19 pand
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Infrared Thermometers Do NOT Emit Radiation And Do NOT Damage The Pineal Gland
Do infrared thermometers emit radiation and damage the pineal gland? No, that's not true: Such thermometers are passive; they don't emit infrared radiation. They simply detect infrared energy. Furthermore, the pineal gland is not near the
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The World Bank Did NOT Document Existence Of COVID-19 Test Kits Since 2017
Does a World Bank website prove COVID-19 test kits were sold worldwide as early as 2017? No, that's not true: On a web page, the World Bank put the "COVID-19" label on existing virus test kit components to help disease fighters find equip
Health Feedback→ COVID-19 test kits were not purchased in 2017 and 2018; claim is based on mislabeled data
REVIEW Claims that the coronavirus pandemic was planned has been fanned by online posts showing data tables from the World Integrated Trade Solutions (WITS) website, developed by the World Bank and other organizations, which “allows users to acces
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Fauci, Gates, Soros And Epstein Are NOT All Connected Through The Company Moderna
Are Dr. Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates, George Soros and Jeffery Epstein all connected through an association with the company Moderna? No, that's not true: Dr. Fauci was not the first CEO of Moderna, he and Bill Gates did not attend the same
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Concern Over Testing Does NOT Mean Every ‘Stat’ About COVID-19 Is Bogus
Does concern raised over the sensitivity of testing mean that every statistic about COVID-19 is bogus? No, that's not true: A recent article raised important questions about the sensitivity of standard tests and whether a positive test is
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The CDC Did NOT Fraudulently Count Poisoning, Trauma And Unintentional Injuries In COVID Death Tally
Did the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention fraudulently add deaths from poisoning, trauma and unintentional injury to its tally of COVID-19 deaths? No, that's not true: That claim is based on a mischaracterization of CDC list
Health Feedback→ Masks offer only partial protection from the virus that causes COVID-19, but their effectiveness can be enhanced with other measures like physical distancing
REVIEW Memes calling into question the effectiveness of face masks in reducing the spread of COVID-19 have been circulating on social media platforms in various forms. Some have asserted that “either masks work or they don’t” and questioned wh
Poynter→ No, the CDC did not ‘quietly adjust’ U.S. coronavirus deaths
PolitiFact and MediaWise are teaming up to debunk misinformation about the coronavirus crisis. To have Coronavirus Facts delivered to your inbox weekly, click here. Remember a few weeks back when I mentioned the danger of folks with large platforms —
Poynter→ No, the CDC did not ‘quietly adjust’ U.S. coronavirus deaths
PolitiFact and MediaWise are teaming up to debunk misinformation about the coronavirus crisis. To have Coronavirus Facts delivered to your inbox weekly, click here. Remember a few weeks back when I mentioned the danger of folks with large platforms —
Poynter→ No, the CDC did not ‘quietly adjust’ U.S. coronavirus deaths
PolitiFact and MediaWise are teaming up to debunk misinformation about the coronavirus crisis. To have Coronavirus Facts delivered to your inbox weekly, click here. Remember a few weeks back when I mentioned the danger of folks with large platforms —
Poynter→ No, the CDC did not ‘quietly adjust’ U.S. coronavirus deaths
PolitiFact and MediaWise are teaming up to debunk misinformation about the coronavirus crisis. To have Coronavirus Facts delivered to your inbox weekly, click here. Remember a few weeks back when I mentioned the danger of folks with large platforms —
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO ‘Massive International Study’ Shows Countries with Early HCQ Use Had 79% Lower Mortality Rate
Did a "massive international study" show a much lower COVID-19 mortality rate in countries where hydroxychloroquine was prescribed to patients? No, that's not true: The "C19study" is not a massive international study. It is an anonymous c
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Yesterday, 4 Canadians Died of COVID, 7 Italians, 9 Germans, and 1,263 Americans’
On August 20 2020, a Facebook user shared the following post, which purportedly shows the number of deaths due to COVID-19 in Canada, Italy, Germany, and the United States during a single day (“yesterday”): White text against a purple b
Poynter→ No, the CDC did not ‘quietly adjust’ U.S. coronavirus deaths from 153,504 to 9,210
If your time is short President Donald Trump retweeted multiple posts that falsely claimed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decreased the number of U.S. coronavirus deaths to 9,210. Those posts misconstrue data from the CDC, which shows t