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stated on December 22, 2021 in a tweet:

“WHO Director-General: The vaccines are being used to kill children.”

By Gabrielle Settles • December 23, 2021
Instagram posts
stated on December 6, 2021 in an Instagram post:

Deaths from vaccines have totaled 1,621 from Johnson & Johnson, 4,799 from Moderna, 13,039 from Pfizer and 73 from unknown vaccines. And this is an undercount because “only 1% of deaths are reported.”

By Gabrielle Settles • December 10, 2021
60 Plus Association
stated on September 20, 2021 in a commercial shown on television and online:

Insurance companies and Washington bureaucrats “are working together to swipe $500 billion from Medicare to pay for Pelosi and Schumer’s out-of-control spending spree.”

By Victoria Knight • September 28, 2021
Ron DeSantis
stated on July 30, 2021 in an executive order:

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recent guidance on students and masking “lacks a well-grounded scientific justification.”

By Victoria Knight • August 10, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on July 25, 2021 in social media:

CDC "will revoke the emergency use authorization" of the PCR COVID tests because those tests don't differentiate between COVID and flu viruses. "Translation: They've been adding flu cases to Covid cases when using that test.”

By Victoria Knight • July 30, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on June 22, 2021 in a social media post:

“The WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION recently reversed its stance on children getting the Covid vaccine.”

By Victoria Knight • June 24, 2021
Xavier Becerra
stated on May 12, 2021 in testimony before a House subcommittee:

"There is no law that deals specifically with the term ‘partial-birth abortion.’”

By Louis Jacobson • May 19, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on May 3, 2021 in remarks on the American Families Plan:

For vaccine rates among Americans 65 and older, “there’s virtually no difference between white, Black, Hispanic, Asian American.”

By Victoria Knight • May 11, 2021
Buck Sexton
stated on February 8, 2021 in a blog item posted on Facebook:

The science says “open the schools, stop wearing masks outside, and everyone at low risk should start living normal lives."

By Victoria Knight • February 19, 2021
Donald Trump
stated on December 8, 2020 in comments made during a White House Operation Warp Speed vaccine summit:

The percentage of Americans with natural immunity from getting COVID-19 is “a very powerful vaccine in itself.”

By Victoria Knight • December 15, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on October 12, 2020 in a tweet.:

“The World Health Organization just admitted that I was right. Lockdowns are killing countries all over the world. The cure cannot be worse than the problem itself.”

By Victoria Knight • October 15, 2020
Cory Gardner
stated on September 15, 2020 in a tweet:

Says he authored legislation “to guarantee coverage to people with pre-existing conditions -- no matter what happens to Obamacare.”

By Julie Appleby • September 18, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on August 14, 2020 in a post on Facebook:

“As of the last 24 hours this is the protocol regarding masks: Masks should only be used by healthcare workers, caretakers or by people who are sick with symptoms like fever and cough.”

By Aaron Sharockman • August 18, 2020
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on July 17, 2020 in a campaign ad:

“[Steve] Bullock’s health care plan will force rural hospitals to close. Medicare as we know it will change, replaced by a government-run program with fewer doctors and longer wait times.”

By Victoria Knight • August 17, 2020
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 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
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
Facebook posts
stated on February 28, 2020 in posts on social media:

“Every election year has a disease” ... SARS in 2004; avian flu in 2008; swine flu in 2010; MERS in 2012; Ebola in 2014 and 2018; Zika in 2016 and the coronavirus in 2020.

By Emily Venezky • March 11, 2020
Chad Wolf
stated on February 25, 2020 in an exchange during a Senate appropriations subcommittee hearing:

The mortality rate for the flu is “right around” that of the new coronavirus: “It’s right around 2%.”

By Victoria Knight • March 2, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on February 7, 2020 in comments during the New Hampshire presidential primary debate:

Sanders’ “Medicare for All” plan "would cost more than the entire federal budget that we spend now."

By Shefali Luthra • February 13, 2020
Better Future Michigan
stated on December 16, 2019 in a television advertisement.:

Says Gary Peters "supports ‘Medicare for All,’ siding with radical liberals."

By Victoria Knight • January 27, 2020
Physicians for Fair Coverage
stated on July 15, 2019 in a national commercial:

"What Congress is considering would cut money that vulnerable patients rely on the most. That means seniors, children and Americans who rely on Medicaid would be hurt. … Tell Congress we can end surprise billing without shredding the safety net."

By Rachel Bluth • August 7, 2019
John Delaney
stated on June 26, 2019 in comments made during the first Democratic presidential primary debate:

"If you go to every hospital in this country and you ask them one question, which is, ‘How would it have been for you last year if every one of your bills were paid at the Medicare rate?’ Every single hospital administrator said they would close."

By Shefali Luthra • June 27, 2019
Donald Trump
stated on May 9, 2019 in comments delivered during a White House event on surprise medical bills:

"We will always protect patients with pre-existing conditions, very importantly."

By Shefali Luthra • May 16, 2019

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