Coronavirus in October 2020
Every coronavirus-related fact check we have done
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Friday, October 30, 2020
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
- Fact Check: Over 220 Million Americans Have NOT Died From COVID-19 In The Last Several Months
- Fact Check: NO Proof That Flu Cases Are 'Down 98% Across The Globe'
- Fact Check: CDC Data Do NOT 'Reveal' Hospitals Have Counted Heart Attacks as COVID-19 Deaths
- Fact Check: Doctors Are NOT Paid To Falsify Death Certificates, Pump Up COVID Death Toll 16-fold
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Monday, October 19, 2020
- Fact Check: America's Frontline Doctors Did NOT Prove Their Claims That Masks Don't Work
- Fact Check: Anthony Weiner's Laptop Did NOT Contain 'Proof Hillary Clinton & Her Associates Are Involved In Child Trafficking And Pedophilia'
Saturday, October 17, 2020
- Fact Check: Pennsylvania Did NOT Order Hunters To Wear Orange Masks
- Fact Check: N.Y. Gov. Cuomo Did NOT Order Hunters To Wear An Orange Face Mask
Friday, October 16, 2020
Thursday, October 15, 2020
- Fact Check: President Donald Trump Is NOT Dead
- Fact Check: CDC Report Did NOT Say Masks Are Ineffective In Preventing Spread Of COVID-19
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Friday, October 9, 2020
- Fact Check: NO Certainty 2020 Will End With Fewer Total U.S. Deaths Than 2018 And 2019
- Fact Check: Embryonic Stem Cells Were NOT Used In The Development of Regeneron Antibody Treatment
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
- Fact Check: White House Doctors Have NOT Said Trump Recovered From COVID In Four Days
- Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Say Doctors Have Never Seen A Body Kill Coronavirus Like His, Nor That He Has 'USA' Instead Of DNA
- Fact Check: The White House Doctor Did NOT Say Trump Is Virus-Free
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
- Fact Check: Joe Biden DID Say 'Some Black Woman Was Able To Keep The Grocery Shelves Stocked' But Not To Demean
- Fact Check: Flu Does NOT Kill More Than 100,000 Americans Some Years Nor Is It More Lethal Than COVID-19, As Trump Claims
Monday, October 5, 2020
- Fact Check: Sen. Thom Tillis Contracted The Coronavirus And WAS Unmasked During Part Of The SCOTUS Rose Garden Event
- Fact Check: Incarcerated People CAN Receive The $1,200 Stimulus Check Behind Bars
Friday, October 2, 2020
- Fact Check: The Trump COVID Vaccine Plan for the U.S. Does NOT Rely On Forced Inoculation
- Fact Check: NO Evidence Mask-wearing Killed A German Schoolchild
Thursday, October 1, 2020
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