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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Postal voting is open to fraud on an \"industrial scale\" and is \"unviable\" in its current form, a top judge has said.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515185350/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-26520836", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26520836" } ], "question": "Is there any study's on the possible link between mail in voting and election fraud?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Vote fraud in the United States is exceedingly rare\n\n with mailed ballots and otherwise. Over the past 20 years, about 250 million votes have been cast by a mail ballot nationally. The Heritage Foundation maintains an online database of election fraud cases in the United States and reports that there have been just over 1,200 cases of vote fraud of all forms, resulting in 1,100 criminal convictions, over the past 20 years. Of these, 204 involved the fraudulent use of absentee ballots; 143 resulted in criminal convictions.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230409112611/https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/494189-lets-put-the-vote-by-mail-fraud-myth-to-rest/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/494189-lets-put-the-vote-by-mail-fraud-myth-to-rest/" } ], "question": "Is there any evidence that mail in voting increases voting fraud in elections?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "‘Absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud.” \n\n It’s the conclusion of the bipartisan 2005 report of the Commission on Federal Election Reform, chaired by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker III.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230410211436/https://www.wsj.com/articles/heed-jimmy-carter-on-the-danger-of-mail-in-voting-11586557667", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.wsj.com/articles/heed-jimmy-carter-on-the-danger-of-mail-in-voting-11586557667" } ], "question": "Does voting by mail have the highest rate of fraud in an election?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": ". The\nresearch from the federal government during this period made clear that voter fraud is rare. For\nexample, in 2002 the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) began investigating voter fraud. In fact, only\n24 people were convicted or pleaded guilty to illegal voting between 2002 and 2005 nationally (L. C.\nMinnite 2007).Given the millions of ballots that were cast over this period, the 24 cases were minuscule.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515185426/https://csp.unm.edu/covid-19/ucla-unm-ucs-voter-fraud-report.pdf", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://csp.unm.edu/covid-19/ucla-unm-ucs-voter-fraud-report.pdf" } ], "question": "What are the statistics for voter fraud via mail?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "All Californians need to stay at home and avoid nonessential social contact to slow the spread of the deadly coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered Thursday. “It’s time for all of us to recognize as individuals and as a community we need to do more to meet this moment,” he said at an evening press conference. Newsom said he hopes not to have to enforce the order, instead encouraging Californians to influence one another to do the right thing.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230407030619/https://www.sacbee.com/news/coronavirus/article241358846.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.sacbee.com/news/coronavirus/article241358846.html" } ], "question": "Did California Governor Gavin Newsom issued stay-at-home order ?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The nation's most populous state is ordering its nearly 40 million residents to stay home to prevent the spread of the deadly coronavirus.\nNineteen people have died and more than 900 tested positive for coronavirus in California.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515185452/https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/19/us/california-coronavirus-stay-home-order/index.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/19/us/california-coronavirus-stay-home-order/index.html" } ], "question": "What is the population of people that were affected by California Governor Gavin Newsom stay-at-home order ?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Defiance came with biscuits and gravy as a remote California county became the first to buck Gov. Gavin Newsom’s stay-at-home order.\n\nModoc County moved Friday to reopen hair salons, churches, restaurants and the county’s only movie theater. There haven’t been any confirmed cases of COVID-19 among 9,000 residents, but the reopening came with strict social distancing limits. Businesses could only have half the patrons, and customers must stay 6 feet apart.\n\nThe county is an outlier in every sense of the word. It is tucked into the far northeast near the Oregon border, hundreds of miles from the capital of Sacramento and even further politically from the Democrat-controlled state; it’s a place where seven in 10 voted for Donald Trump in 2016.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515185617/https://www.kqed.org/news/11815922/remote-northern-california-county-defies-stay-at-home-order", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.kqed.org/news/11815922/remote-northern-california-county-defies-stay-at-home-order" } ], "question": "Did any county defies California Governor Gavin Newsom Stay-at-Home Order ?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "Did California Governor Gavin Newsom defied his stay-at-home order ?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "He didnt go to vacation", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201203042233/https://apnews.com/afs:Content:8951380526", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201203042233/https://apnews.com/afs:Content:8951380526" } ], "question": "did Governor Newson leave his state for vacation" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "There is no significant research and development activity in the country.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230426202728/https://theconversation.com/nigeria-relies-heavily-on-drug-imports-why-this-is-worrying-in-the-time-of-covid-19-134562", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://theconversation.com/nigeria-relies-heavily-on-drug-imports-why-this-is-worrying-in-the-time-of-covid-19-134562" }, { "answer": "Nigeria relies on imported active pharmaceutical ingredients as well as equipment used in drug manufacturing.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230426202728/https://theconversation.com/nigeria-relies-heavily-on-drug-imports-why-this-is-worrying-in-the-time-of-covid-19-134562", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://theconversation.com/nigeria-relies-heavily-on-drug-imports-why-this-is-worrying-in-the-time-of-covid-19-134562" } ], "question": "Is there significant vaccine research in Nigeria?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "As of May 2020, the fatality rate of COVID-19 also remains unclear, experts say. “Between countries, case Fatality rates vary significantly, and over time, which suggests considerable uncertainty over the exact case fatality rates,” the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM) at the University of Oxford notes here.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230425142624/https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/global-covid-19-case-fatality-rates/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "http://www.cebm.net/covid-19/global-covid-19-case-fatality-rates" } ], "question": "Is coronavirus survival rates not known to us?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "42", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515185814/https://placng.org/i/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/2020-Executive-Budget-Proposal-Details.pdf", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://placng.org/i/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/2020-Executive-Budget-Proposal-Details.pdf" } ], "question": "How many research labs does Nigeria have?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Naturalnews.com", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201224233227/https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-05-17-bill-gates-harmed-killed-coronavirus-vaccines.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201224233227/https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-05-17-bill-gates-harmed-killed-coronavirus-vaccines.html" } ], "question": "Where did the claim originate?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "NewsGuard, a company that uses trained journalist to rank the reliability of websites, describes naturalnews.com as:\n\nA network of sites promoting both medical and non-medical conspiracy theories, particularly the false claim that vaccines are linked to autism.\nAccording to NewsGuard the site does not maintain basic standards of accuracy and accountability", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "What is known about naturalnews.com" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "What Gates really said was that making a vaccine that is effective in older people is \"a huge challenge\" because flu vaccines are less effective for the elderly. \"And doing that so that you amp it up so that it works in older people, and yet you don't have side effects, if we have one in 10,000 side effects that's way more, 700,000 people who will suffer from that.\"", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201102065906/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjgbMib36do&feature=youtu.be", "source_medium": "Video", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201102065906/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjgbMib36do&feature=youtu.be" } ], "question": "Does the story relate to anything Bill Gates actually said?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "California faced a $54.3 billion deficit as the coronavirus pandemic hammered the economy", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210511020613/https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/05/07/california-faces-54b-budget-deficit-1282926", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210511020613/https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/05/07/california-faces-54b-budget-deficit-1282926" } ], "question": "What was California's budget deficit in 2020" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The bulk of the deficit comes from a projected $41.2 billion revenue decline over the next 14 months", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210511020613/https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/05/07/california-faces-54b-budget-deficit-1282926", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210511020613/https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/05/07/california-faces-54b-budget-deficit-1282926" } ], "question": "What is the cause of the deficit" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "The debt is a projection based on current events for the next 14 months", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210511020613/https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/05/07/california-faces-54b-budget-deficit-1282926", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210511020613/https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/05/07/california-faces-54b-budget-deficit-1282926" } ], "question": "Does California actually owe $54 billion" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "A report showed that yellow fever vaccines were being produced at Federal Vaccine Production Laboratories, Yaba,\nLagos", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20220512140435/https://idl-bnc-idrc.dspacedirect.org/bitstream/handle/10625/47493/IDL-47493.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y#page=15", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20220512140435/https://idl-bnc-idrc.dspacedirect.org/bitstream/handle/10625/47493/IDL-47493.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y#page=15" } ], "question": "Were yellow fever vaccines produced in Nigeria" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Over one million vaccines were produced between 1976 to 1987", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20220512140435/https://idl-bnc-idrc.dspacedirect.org/bitstream/handle/10625/47493/IDL-47493.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y#page=15", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20220512140435/https://idl-bnc-idrc.dspacedirect.org/bitstream/handle/10625/47493/IDL-47493.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y#page=15" } ], "question": "what year were these yellow fever vaccines being produced" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "energy produced by wind, sun, and other sources that will never run out.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515185843/https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/renewable-energy", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/renewable-energy" } ], "question": "What is renewable energy?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The World Bank's World Development Indicators does not have figures for Rwanda.\n\nIn 2015 Denmark had the highest percentage of renewable energy at 65%", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190702101255/http://wdi.worldbank.org/table/3.7", "source_medium": "Web table", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190702101255/http://wdi.worldbank.org/table/3.7" }, { "answer": "Currently, the total installed capacity to generate electricity in Rwanda is 276.068 MW from different power plants. By generation technology mix, 51% is from thermal sources, followed by hydro sources (43.9%) and solar sources with 4.2%.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230218211354/https://www.reg.rw/what-we-do/generation/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.reg.rw/what-we-do/generation/" } ], "question": "How much of Rwanda's electricity comes from renewable energy?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "New York State faced a $7 billion budget gap even before the current economic disruption. Debt was $54.4 billion", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200910181224/https://cbcny.org/advocacy/statement-new-york-state-fiscal-year-2021-enacted-budget", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200910181224/https://cbcny.org/advocacy/statement-new-york-state-fiscal-year-2021-enacted-budget" } ], "question": "what was New York's debt in 2020?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Abbott, Patrick and Bonnen made clear in Wednesday's letter that \"it may become necessary to make additional budget adjustments\" as the state's revenues continue to come into focus. Hegar, who is expected to provide his revised fiscal forecast in July, has already said that the current state budget will be billions of dollars out of balance.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230328120201/https://www.texastribune.org/2020/05/20/texas-greg-abbott-budget-cut-coronavirus/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.texastribune.org/2020/05/20/texas-greg-abbott-budget-cut-coronavirus/" } ], "question": "How balanced was Texas' budget in 2020?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "State sales tax collections declined as a result of efforts to stem the spread of COVID-19 through business closures, crowd limits and stay-at-home orders adopted in the state, as well as a precipitous drop in worldwide demand for oil,” Hegar said. “The steepest declines in tax remittances were from businesses most quickly and dramatically affected by social distancing: restaurants, performing arts venues, movie theaters, theme parks and fitness centers, as well as department stores and boutique retail shops. However, those losses were, to a degree, offset by increases from big-box retailers, grocery stores and online vendors. Remittances from oil- and gas-related sectors also fell significantly as oil and gas exploration and production companies slashed capital spending in response to the crash in oil price.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210412222528/https://comptroller.texas.gov/about/media-center/news/2020/200501-sales-tax.php", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210412222528/https://comptroller.texas.gov/about/media-center/news/2020/200501-sales-tax.php" } ], "question": "What was the main causes of imbalance in Texas' budget at the time of the claim?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Nigeria did not produce any COVID-19 vaccines in 2020.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515185938/https://kpmg.com/xx/en/home/insights/2020/04/nigeria-government-and-institution-measures-in-response-to-covid.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://home.kpmg/xx/en/home/insights/2020/04/nigeria-government-and-institution-measures-in-response-to-covid.html" } ], "question": "How many COVID-19 vaccines did Nigeria produce in 2020?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Tomori told Africa Check that no human vaccines were currently being produced in the country. Only vaccines for animals were being made.\n“There is no vaccine lab in Nigeria except at the National Veterinary Research Institute, Vom, which is producing veterinary vaccines. The vaccine lab at Yaba is dead.”", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" }, { "answer": "the laboratory was closed for upgrades in 1991 and remained locked.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200811045714/https://tribuneonlineng.com/reps-seek-revitalisation-of-yaba-vaccine-production-laboratory-after-29-years/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200811045714/https://tribuneonlineng.com/reps-seek-revitalisation-of-yaba-vaccine-production-laboratory-after-29-years/" } ], "question": "Did Nigeria produce any vaccines at all in 2020?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "A 1987 technical consultancy report on the Nigeria’s Federal Vaccine Production Laboratory in Yaba, Lagos showed that it was making yellow fever vaccines in the 1970s and 1980s. It produced 316,000 doses of yellow fever vaccine in 1978, reaching a peak of more than 500,000 doses in 1987.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515190003/https://idl-bnc-idrc.dspacedirect.org/bitstream/handle/10625/47493/IDL-47493.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://idl-bnc-idrc.dspacedirect.org/bitstream/handle/10625/47493/IDL-47493.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y" } ], "question": "What vaccines was Nigeria producing in the 1970s and 1980s?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "FL is $20.6 billion in debt", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515190101/https://www.floridaphoenix.com/2019/12/09/fl-is-20-6-billion-in-debt-lower-than-last-year-and-sort-of-like-reducing-your-credit-card-balance/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.floridaphoenix.com/2019/12/09/fl-is-20-6-billion-in-debt-lower-than-last-year-and-sort-of-like-reducing-your-credit-card-balance/" } ], "question": "Does Florida have a debt?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "April experienced an overall combined revenue loss of $878.1 million\nfrom the estimate.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515190127/http://edr.state.fl.us/Content/revenues/reports/monthly-revenue-report/newsletters/nlapr20.pdf", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "http://edr.state.fl.us/Content/revenues/reports/monthly-revenue-report/newsletters/nlapr20.pdf" } ], "question": "And did they have a revenue loss?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The budget must be balanced—estimated revenues must meet or exceed the Governor's proposed spending", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515190331/https://www.budgetchallenge.org/pages/budget_facts", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.budgetchallenge.org/pages/budget_facts" } ], "question": "what is a balanced budget?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "Is this the case for Floridas budget?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The budget must be balanced—estimated revenues must meet or exceed the Governor's proposed spending", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515190331/https://www.budgetchallenge.org/pages/budget_facts", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.budgetchallenge.org/pages/budget_facts" } ], "question": "What is a balanced budget?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "If, for instance, a state enacted a FY 2020 budget that was balanced at the time of its adoption in the spring of 2019, it is likely facing a deficit now as revenue collections sputter. In most states, some sort of action would be required to bring the budget into balance before the fiscal year ends (typically June 30), but some states permit the fiscal year to end with a negative. balance, carrying over a deficit to the next fiscal year.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515190418/https://taxfoundation.org/fy-2020-state-budgets-fy-2021-state-budgets/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://taxfoundation.org/fy-2020-state-budgets-fy-2021-state-budgets/" } ], "question": "What are US state requirements to achieve a balanced budget?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "30th June 2020", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515190519/https://www.myfloridacfo.com/docs-sf/default-source/transparency-docs/cafr/2020cafr.pdf?sfvrsn=88bd3915_3", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.myfloridacfo.com/docs-sf/default-source/transparency-docs/cafr/2020cafr.pdf?sfvrsn=88bd3915_3" }, { "answer": "30th June 2020", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20161009075456/http://www.sbafla.com/budget/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.sbafla.com/budget/" } ], "question": "When does the fiscal year end for Florida?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "State of Florida fiscal year end for 2019 was June 30th 2020, therefore the official statements and figures for that year were not published yet.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515190608/https://www.sbafla.com/budget/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.sbafla.com/budget/" }, { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "State of Florida fiscal year end for 2019 was June 30th 2020, therefore the official statements and figures for that year were not published yet.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515190633/https://flauditor.gov/pages/pdf_files/2020%20comprehensive%20annual%20financial%20report.pdf", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://flauditor.gov/pages/pdf_files/2020%20comprehensive%20annual%20financial%20report.pdf" } ], "question": "At the time of the claim was the State of Florida Annual Financial Report for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2020 available?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Government\nARCN\n\nAgricultural Research Council of Nigeria\n\nNVRI\n\nNational Veterinary Research Institute\n\nNIOMR\n\nNigerian Institute for Oceanography and Marine Research\n\nNIFOR\n\nNigerian Institute for Oil-Palm Research\n\nNRCRI\n\nNational Root Crops Research Institute\n\nNIHORT\n\nNational Horticultural Research Institute\n\nCRIN\n\nCocoa Research Institute of Nigeria\n\nRRIN\n\nRubber Research Institute of Nigeria\n\nNSPRI\n\nThe Nigerian Stored Products Research Institute\n\nNCRI\n\nNational Cereals Research Institute\n\nIAR\n\nInstitute for Agricultural Research\n\nIAR&T\n\nInstitute of Agricultural Research & Training\n\nNAERLS\n\nNational Agricultural Extension and Research Liaison Services\n\nLCRI\n\nLake Chad Research Institute\n\nNIFFR\n\nNational Institute for Freshwater Fisheries Research\n\nNAPRI\n\nNational Animal Production Research Institute\n\nNACGRAB\n\nNational Center For Genetic Resources & Biotechnology\n\nFIIRO\n\nFederal Institute Of Industrial Research, Oshodi\n\nPRODA\n\nProjects Development Institute\n\nNITR\n\nNigerian Institute for Trypanosomiasis Research\n\nFRIN\n\nForestry Research Institute of Nigeria\n\nNARICT\n\nNational Research Institute for Chemical Technology\n\nNISER\n\nNigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research\n\nHigher education\nUNN\n\nUniversity of Nigeria - Faculty of Agriculture\n\nUNN\n\nUniversity of Nigeria - Faculty of Veterinary Medicine\n\nUNN\n\nUniversity of Nigeria - Faculty of Engineering - Agriculture & Bioresources Engineering\n\nUNN\n\nUniversity of Nigeria - Centre for Rural Development & Cooperatives\n\nUNAAB\n\nUniversity of Agriculture, Abeokuta\n\nUniversity of Benin - Faculty of Agriculture\n\nABU\n\nAhmadu Bello University - Faculty of Veterinary Medicine\n\nABU\n\nAhmadu Bello University - Faculty of Agriculture\n\nABU\n\nAhmadu Bello University - Faculty of Engineering - Agricultural Engineering Department\nUniversity of Ibadan - Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry\nUniversity of Ibadan - Faculty of Veterinary Medicine\nUniversity of Ibadan - Faculty of Technology - Department of Agricultural and Environme", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515190813/https://asti.cgiar.org/nigeria/agencies", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://asti.cgiar.org/nigeria/agencies" } ], "question": "how many research institutes does Nigeria have" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "41", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230514235005/https://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/" } ], "question": "According to the National bureau of statistics, how many institutes are there ?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes, some are public, private or independent and there are some at universities.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515190934/https://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Research+institute", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Research%2Binstitute" } ], "question": "Are there different types of research institutions other than the 41 ?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Type of research institution is not mentioned.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515191311/https://fatherprada.com/info/69-list-of-research-institutions-in-nigeria/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://fatherprada.com/info/69-list-of-research-institutions-in-nigeria/" } ], "question": "So is it possible to tell what type of research institute the man that made the claim (Ohuabunwa) is referring to?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "In 2018 the government and the NHS staff council agreed a three year pay deal which saw pay for nurses increase annually in April between 2018/19 and 2020/21.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20220313055844/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jj8f", "source_medium": "Video", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20220313055844/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jj8f" }, { "answer": "In April 2018 at the start of the new financial year, the government and the NHS staff council agreed a three year pay deal which saw pay for nurses increase annually in April between 2018/19 and 2020/21.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20220313055844/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jj8f", "source_medium": "Video", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20220313055844/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jj8f" } ], "question": "Did nurses in the UK get a pay rise in april 2020?" } ]

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[ "Written Evidence", "Numerical Comparison" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Salaries for most NHS staff are arranged into bands, and newly-qualified nurses start out in band 5 which starts at £24,907 in England. The more years of experience nurses accumulate, the higher their pay gets at band 5 level.\n\nBetween 2019/20 and 2020/21 nurses in band 5 would have seen their salary increase by between 3% and 12% through a combination of the amount you could earn at band 5 being increased, and their own progression through the band after gaining another year of experience.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210616041209/https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a857514bff200aa36889e06/t/5ab23db803ce64be4f073046/1521630651875/NHS+Staff+Council+Framework+agreement+21+March+2018.pdf", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210616041209/https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a857514bff200aa36889e06/t/5ab23db803ce64be4f073046/1521630651875/NHS+Staff+Council+Framework+agreement+21+March+2018.pdf" } ], "question": "How much do newly qualified nurses earn?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The upper limit of this, 12%, is calculated based on a nurse with five to six years’ experience in 2019/20 and earning £27,260, moving up to a salary of £30,615 in 2020/21, the salary for nurses in Band 5 with six to seven years’ experience in that year.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210616041209/https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a857514bff200aa36889e06/t/5ab23db803ce64be4f073046/1521630651875/NHS+Staff+Council+Framework+agreement+21+March+2018.pdf", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210616041209/https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a857514bff200aa36889e06/t/5ab23db803ce64be4f073046/1521630651875/NHS+Staff+Council+Framework+agreement+21+March+2018.pdf" } ], "question": "What is the upper limit of this progression?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "no and the maximum 12% increase doesn't account for inflation. In real terms, the band 5 starting salary increased by 6.7% between 2017/18 and 2020/21. But since 2010/11, it has fallen by a total of 3.2%.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210616041209/https://www.rcn.org.uk/-/media/royal-college-of-nursing/documents/publications/2009/march/pub-003303.pdf", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210616041209/https://www.rcn.org.uk/-/media/royal-college-of-nursing/documents/publications/2009/march/pub-003303.pdf" } ], "question": "Did any lower paid nurses see a salary increase in 15% over a year?" } ]

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[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "See form in source.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20220726115850im_/https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2020/05/21/USAT/e069683b-5138-4d69-a829-d72159fd452f-Fla.form.jpg?width=300&height=363&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp", "source_medium": "Web table", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20220726115850im_/https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2020/05/21/USAT/e069683b-5138-4d69-a829-d72159fd452f-Fla.form.jpg?width=300&height=363&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp" } ], "question": "Do Airline travelers to Florida have to fill out a form at the airport with contact information and trip details due to covid?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Florida National Guard soldier got on board to inform passengers that they were instructed to self-isolate for 14 days, governor’s orders.\n\nDeSantis’ Tuesday order requires that anyone traveling from New York City to Florida or who has traveled from New York City in the last three weeks must self-isolate and report the contacts they’ve had with anyone in the state. Violating the order is a second-degree misdemeanor, and could result in a $500 fine or 60 days in jail", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article241471451.html" } ], "question": "Do the also have to self quarantine for 14 days?" } ]

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[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "experts believe you’re less at risk than someone sitting still in a confined space. \"I would not worry about walking by someone,\" Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease specialist at Johns Hopkins University, told Slate. \n\n\"Even in a health care setting, contact is defined by being near someone for a certain amount of time,\" Adalja said. \"I would not worry about these fleeting encounters. The virus isn’t airborne—droplets need to get from one person to another.\"", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210301210939/https://slate.com/business/2020/04/coronavirus-parks-beaches-open-them.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210301210939/https://slate.com/business/2020/04/coronavirus-parks-beaches-open-them.html" } ], "question": "Is walking past people in a shop setting, a high risk?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "\"Reports from indoor spaces (restaurants, offices) suggest that both physical proximity and duration of exposure are important for transmission,\" Rasmussen said in an email. \"So sitting still around others in close physical proximity is probably higher risk than incidentally passing by someone in a store, but the risks aren’t quantified because there are a lot of variables that can impact this.\"\n\nA recent NPR article categorized 14 different activities by their level of risk for infection. Worship services? \"High risk.\" Going shopping? \"Risk varies.\"", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230513153532/https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/23/861325631/from-camping-to-dining-out-heres-how-experts-rate-the-risks-of-14-summer-activit?", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/23/861325631/from-camping-to-dining-out-heres-how-experts-rate-the-risks-of-14-summer-activit//" } ], "question": "How high risk is worship in indoor spaces?" } ]

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[ "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "In an interview on May 11, 2020 -- days before the claims started circulating on Facebook -- Rajoelina criticised the WHO for refusing to endorse his herbal remedy. He did not threaten to pull Madagascar from WHO or call on African countries to leave WHO.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210705170324/https://www.france24.com/en/20200511-madagascar-virus-potion-scorned-because-it-s-from-africa-president", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210705170324/https://www.france24.com/en/20200511-madagascar-virus-potion-scorned-because-it-s-from-africa-president" } ], "question": "Has the Madagascan president Andry Rajoelina called on African nations to leave the World Health Organization (WHO).?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes he tweeted:\n\n\"Successful exchange with @DrTedros who commends #Madagascar’s efforts in the fight against #Covid19.\n@WHO will sign a confidentiality clause on the formulation of the #CovidOrganics and will support the clinical observations process in #Africa.\"", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200731065055/https://twitter.com/SE_Rajoelina/status/1263233890392715264/photo/1", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200731065055/https://twitter.com/SE_Rajoelina/status/1263233890392715264/photo/1" } ], "question": "Has Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina said anything about WHO after he criticised them?" } ]

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[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "The H2N2 virus of 1957-58 – more commonly known as ‘Asian Flu’ – was the first major worldwide influenza outbreak since the devastating Spanish Flu of 1918. The US-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) notes the H2N2 virus was first reported in Singapore in February 1957 before spreading to Hong Kong in April and then to the US and other countries in June.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210115143303/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3291411/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210115143303/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3291411/" }, { "answer": "The first infections of the 2009 Swine Flu outbreak. Passed to humans from pigs, were detected in the United States and Mexico in April and by June the disease had spread to more than 70 countries.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210127225331/https://www.who.int/csr/don/2009_04_24/en/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210127225331/https://www.who.int/csr/don/2009_04_24/en/" }, { "answer": "The H3N2 virus of 1968-69 is more commonly known as ‘Hong Kong Flu’ and while some researchers believe it may have originated in mainland China, it has never been proved conclusively. WHO (see table, page 41) lists Asia as the source. As the name suggests, it resulted in a large epidemic in Hong Kong, which at the time was a UK colony.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210127200138/https://www.who.int/csr/resources/publications/influenza/whocdscsredc991.pdf", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210127200138/https://www.who.int/csr/resources/publications/influenza/whocdscsredc991.pdf" } ], "question": "Other than China Where else have serious viral outbreaks occured?" } ]

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[ "Written Evidence", "Numerical Comparison" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "A research paper in the International Journal of Clinical Practice.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "What is the basis of this claim?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "evidence that by the end of the 2nd week in April, 26.8% of the population may already have had the disease and so have increased immunity", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515191736/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ijcp.13528", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ijcp.13528" } ], "question": "What did the research find?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "The daily published cases in England in each of 149 Upper Tier Local\nAuthority (UTLA) areas were converted to Average Daily Infection Rate (ADIR), an R\nvalue—the number of further people infected by one infected person during their infectious phase with Rate of Change of Infection Rate (RCIR) also calculated. Stepwise\nregression was carried out to see what local factors could be linked to differences in\nlocal infection rates.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515191736/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ijcp.13528", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ijcp.13528" } ], "question": "Was the evidence provided from testing people?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Carl Bergstrom, a professor of biology at the University of Washington, has tweeted \"An odd research study out of U. Manchester today uses an indirect and, frankly, bizarre method to estimate the incidence in the UK as being vastly higher than that inferred using more direct approaches.\"", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515191814/https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1261058066495074304", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1261058066495074304" }, { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Dr Konstantin Blyuss, Reader in Mathematics at the University of Sussex, said:\n\n“There are several problems with this study.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515191842/https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-study-reporting-the-suggestion-that-25-of-people-in-the-uk-are-likely-to-have-already-been-infected-by-the-covid-19-virus/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-study-reporting-the-suggestion-that-25-of-people-in-the-uk-are-likely-to-have-already-been-infected-by-the-covid-19-virus/" }, { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Dr Kucharski says, “It is likely that there is huge uncertainty in the estimates produced by the model used in this paper, and unfortunately this uncertainty is not reflected in the single value quoted in the paper and the press release.”", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515191842/https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-study-reporting-the-suggestion-that-25-of-people-in-the-uk-are-likely-to-have-already-been-infected-by-the-covid-19-virus/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-study-reporting-the-suggestion-that-25-of-people-in-the-uk-are-likely-to-have-already-been-infected-by-the-covid-19-virus/" } ], "question": "Has this research been criticised?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "15/05/2020", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "When was the claim made?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "226,041", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230513044600/https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus", "source_medium": "Web table", "source_url": "https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus" } ], "question": "As of May 15th, 2020, what was the cumulative total of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the UK?" } ]

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[ "Written Evidence", "Satirical Source Identification" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "You can start receiving your retirement benefit as early as age 62, or as late as age 70.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515191939/https://faq.ssa.gov/en-US/Topic/article/KA-03391", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://faq.ssa.gov/en-US/Topic/article/KA-03391" } ], "question": "At what age are people in the U.S. eligible for Social Security retirement benefits?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Increase in Retirement Age\n\nFor persons born in 1938 or later, their Social Security benefit may be affected by a provision that raises the age at which full Social Security benefits are payable.\nThe age for collecting full Social Security retirement benefits will gradually increase from 65 to 67 over a 22-year period beginning in 2000 for those retiring at 62.\nThe earliest a person can start receiving reduced Social Security retirement benefits will remain age 62.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230418072247/https://www.ssa.gov/pressoffice/IncRetAge.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.ssa.gov/pressoffice/IncRetAge.html" } ], "question": "Is the eligibility age for Social Security benefits getting older?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Democrats do not believe that raising retirement age is a reasonable solution to the problem. They believe that the institution of social security is one that needs protecting, stating, “In 1935, Democrats and President Franklin Roosevelt created Social Security. In 1965, Democrats and President Lyndon Johnson created Medicare. Ever since, Democrats have continually fought to defend these cornerstones of the American Dream in the face of attempts to dismantle or undermine both.”", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230516141701/https://www.republicanviews.org/democratic-views-on-social-security/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.republicanviews.org/democratic-views-on-social-security/" } ], "question": "Does the U.S. Democratic Party want to raise the age you receive your social security benefits?" } ]

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[ "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "TheJournal.ie is an internet publication in Ireland. It was a mixture of original and aggregated content, before moving to entirely original content.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515192315/https://www.thejournal.ie/stardust-podcast-intro-4825409-Oct2019/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.thejournal.ie/stardust-podcast-intro-4825409-Oct2019/" } ], "question": "What is TheJournal.ie" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "“TheJournal.ie is fully operational and the news team will continue to work hard to bring our audience the best-quality information throughout this Covid-19 crisis and beyond, including our award-winning factchecking project.”", "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "is TheJournal.ie closing down?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation Ltd. (abbreviation CCECC) was established in June 1979 under the approval of the State Council of the People's Republic of China.\n\nIt performs international contracting and economic cooperation, CCECC has been developed from the earlier Foreign Aid Department of the Ministry of Railways (with the experience of executing the biggest foreign-aid project of China, the TAZARA) into a large-scale state-owned enterprise for project contracting.\n\nIts business scope expands from international contracting for railway construction to civil engineering design & consultancy, real estate development, trading, industrial investment and hotel management as well. The business activities of CCECC have expanded to over 40 countries and regions where more than 20 overseas offices or subsidiaries have been established.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230330141208/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Civil_Engineering_Construction_Corporation", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Civil_Engineering_Construction_Corporation" } ], "question": "What is the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "It established the CCECC NIGERIA LIMITED.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515192419/https://ccecc-nigeria-limited.business.site/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://ccecc-nigeria-limited.business.site/" } ], "question": "Did the CCECC operate projects in Nigeria?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Some Chinese companies in Nigeria have been blacklisted by the World Bank for fraud and corruption.\n\nThe companies include China Railway Construction (International) Nigeria Company Limited, China Railway 18th Bureau Nigeria Engineering Company Limited, CCECC Nigeria Lekki (FTA) Company Limited, CCECC Nigeria Railway Company Limited, CRCC Petroleum & Gas Company Limited, and CCECC Nigeria Company Limited.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515192508/https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/347386-world-bank-blacklists-six-chinese-firms-in-nigeria-for-contract-fraud-corruption.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/347386-world-bank-blacklists-six-chinese-firms-in-nigeria-for-contract-fraud-corruption.html" } ], "question": "Did the world bank blacklist CCECC?" } ]

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[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Bulandshahr, city, western Uttar Pradesh state, northern India. It lies about 40 miles (65 km) southeast of Delhi, on the Kali River.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230407125451/https://www.britannica.com/place/Bulandshahr", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.britannica.com/place/Bulandshahr" } ], "question": "Where is Bulandshahr?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The notice was issued to an individual accused of flouting social distancing norms in place due to COVID-19.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200805215523/https://twitter.com/bulandshahrpol/status/1261176427795357701?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200805215523/https://twitter.com/bulandshahrpol/status/1261176427795357701?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" } ], "question": "Who was the notice issued to?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "14/05/2020", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "When was this claim made?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "ADJECTIVE\n1. dying of hunger\n2. informal\nvery hungry; ravenous", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515192750/https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/starving", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/starving" } ], "question": "What is the definition of starving?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Several centring workers and contractors in and around Moosapet and Kukatpally areas are on the verge of starvation, and desperately await support from government and non-government organisations.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515192829/https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/centring-workers-on-the-verge-of-starvation/article31340411.ece", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/centring-workers-on-the-verge-of-starvation/article31340411.ece" } ], "question": "Have there been any reports of people starving in this period?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "A survey revealed that almost 74 per cent — almost three out of four surveyed — said they had started eating lesser than before to cut costs and 61 per cent households did not even have enough money to buy a week's ration.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515192854/https://www.news18.com/amp/news/india/67-of-indias-vulnerable-population-lost-jobs-during-lockdown-74-now-eating-lesser-survey-2617533.html?__twitter_impression=true", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.news18.com/amp/news/india/67-of-indias-vulnerable-population-lost-jobs-during-lockdown-74-now-eating-lesser-survey-2617533.html?__twitter_impression=true" } ], "question": "Are there any reports of people going hungry in this period?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No. Workers and contractors in and around Moosapet and Kukatpally areas of Hyderabad were reported to be on the verge of starvation, and desperately awaiting support from government and non-government organisations. Although the government had announced that the migrant workers will be eligible for 12 kg of rice and ₹500 per person, none of these benefits had reached these workers.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515192829/https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/centring-workers-on-the-verge-of-starvation/article31340411.ece", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/centring-workers-on-the-verge-of-starvation/article31340411.ece" } ], "question": "Did the Indian Government successfully stop starvation during the first three months of Covid?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "No conclusions have been reached on the safety and effectiveness of this medicine to treat or prevent COVID-19.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201130134122/https://www.gov.uk/government/news/chloroquine-and-hydroxychloroquine-not-licensed-for-coronavirus-covid-19-treatment", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201130134122/https://www.gov.uk/government/news/chloroquine-and-hydroxychloroquine-not-licensed-for-coronavirus-covid-19-treatment" } ], "question": "Can Hydroxychloroquine cure covid-19?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Some of these loans are actually written in (the) Chinese language,”", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210720233446/https://youtu.be/OtsixTmFO4E", "source_medium": "Video", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210720233446/https://youtu.be/OtsixTmFO4E" }, { "answer": "Being that loan documents are not made public it is difficult to know exactly what Language it is written in", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "What Language was the loan agreement written in" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "Did China issue loans to Nigeria in Mandarin?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Fact-checker Reference" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "WHO does not recommend self-medication with any medicines, including antibiotics, as a prevention or cure for COVID-19", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210308083918/https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/question-and-answers-hub/q-a-detail/coronavirus-disease-covid-19", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210308083918/https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/question-and-answers-hub/q-a-detail/coronavirus-disease-covid-19" } ], "question": "What is the WHO recommendation for other forms of medication for COVID-19" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "“It is very simply not true that you can prevent viral infection by drinking water, if for no other reason than the main method of transmission for coronavirus appears to be droplets landing on surfaces, not virus stuck in your throat", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230406162821/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/mar/28/dangerous-cures-and-viral-hoaxes-common-coronavirus-myths-busted", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/mar/28/dangerous-cures-and-viral-hoaxes-common-coronavirus-myths-busted" } ], "question": "Has steam or drinking hot water been known to cure the coronavirus" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Only China requires a government issued press pass and as such is ranked 177th out of 180 countries with restrictive media environmment", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210127145624/https://rsf.org/en/ranking", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210127145624/https://rsf.org/en/ranking" } ], "question": "Are journalists required to have press passes in order to operate in Singapore, China, UK and the US" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "This guidance is intended for the current position in the UK where there is currently no transmission of COVID-19 in the community. It is therefore very unlikely that anyone receiving care in a care home or the community will become infected", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210612110049/https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-for-social-or-community-care-and-residential-settings-on-covid-19/guidance-for-social-or-community-care-and-residential-settings-on-covid-19#guidance-on-facemasks", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210612110049/https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-for-social-or-community-care-and-residential-settings-on-covid-19/guidance-for-social-or-community-care-and-residential-settings-on-covid-19#guidance-on-facemasks" } ], "question": "Can people in care homes become infected by COVID 19" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "This guidance was withdrawn on 13 March 2020", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210612110049/https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-for-social-or-community-care-and-residential-settings-on-covid-19/guidance-for-social-or-community-care-and-residential-settings-on-covid-19#guidance-on-facemasks", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210612110049/https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-for-social-or-community-care-and-residential-settings-on-covid-19/guidance-for-social-or-community-care-and-residential-settings-on-covid-19#guidance-on-facemasks" } ], "question": "Was this guidance withdrawn" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "It remains very unlikely that people receiving care in a care home or the community will become infected", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210612110049/https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-for-social-or-community-care-and-residential-settings-on-covid-19/guidance-for-social-or-community-care-and-residential-settings-on-covid-19#guidance-on-facemasks", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210612110049/https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-for-social-or-community-care-and-residential-settings-on-covid-19/guidance-for-social-or-community-care-and-residential-settings-on-covid-19#guidance-on-facemasks" } ], "question": "What was the government advice on the spread of the coronavirus and those in care homes" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Elecsys Anti-SARS-CoV-2 serology assay is intended for the detection of IgM and IgG\nantibodies to SARS-CoV-2 in human serum and plasma.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230513044846/https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/891598/Evaluation_of_Roche_Elecsys_anti_SARS_CoV_2_PHE_200610_v8.1_FINAL.pdf", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/891598/Evaluation_of_Roche_Elecsys_anti_SARS_CoV_2_PHE_200610_v8.1_FINAL.pdf" } ], "question": "What is the Roche test?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No. In conclusion, the Elecsys Anti-SARS-CoV-2 assay gave a specificity of 100% (95%CI\n99.1-100) in this evaluation; the manufacturer reported a specificity of 99.81% (95%CI\n99.65-99.91).\nIn this evaluation, the overall sensitivity of the Elecsys Anti-SARS-CoV-2 assay was\n83.9% (95%CI 74.8-90.7). The sensitivity was 86.1% (95%CI 76.5-92.8) for samples\ntaken ≥14 since symptom onset and 86.7% (95%CI 76.8-93.4) for samples taken ≥21\ndays since symptom onset. The manufacturer reported a sensitivity of 100% (95%CI\n88.1-100) for samples ≥14 days post-PCR confirmation.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230513044846/https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/891598/Evaluation_of_Roche_Elecsys_anti_SARS_CoV_2_PHE_200610_v8.1_FINAL.pdf", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/891598/Evaluation_of_Roche_Elecsys_anti_SARS_CoV_2_PHE_200610_v8.1_FINAL.pdf" } ], "question": "Were the results 100% accurate?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Satirical Source Identification" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Democratic Party) is a member of the U.S. House, representing New York's 14th Congressional District.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230403234149/https://ballotpedia.org/Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://ballotpedia.org/Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez" } ], "question": "Who is Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "The source is clearly satire and not genuine.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200606122729/https://tatersgonnatate.com/ocasio-cortez-proposes-bill-capping-legal-voting-age-at-65/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200606122729/https://tatersgonnatate.com/ocasio-cortez-proposes-bill-capping-legal-voting-age-at-65/" } ], "question": "Does Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez support a maximum voting age of 65 years?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Fact-checker Reference" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Madeea Greene", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "How made this claim?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Medea greene has posted many conspiracy style stories online", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515193437/https://beforeitsnews.com/v3/search/?q=Madeea+Greene&sa=", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://beforeitsnews.com/v3/search/?q=Madeea+Greene&sa=" } ], "question": "Is Madeea Greene a trusted source for information?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "beforeitsnews.com", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "Which web site did the claim originate on?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "It does appear in a reliable source's list of Fake news websites", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230502140319/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fake_news_websites", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fake_news_websites" } ], "question": "Is beforeitsnews.com a trustworthy website for news?" } ]

[ "Causal Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "A total of 36 states have laws requesting or requiring voters to show some form of identification at the polls,", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201231111231/https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/voter-id.aspx#Laws%20in%20Effect", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201231111231/https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/voter-id.aspx#Laws%20in%20Effect" } ], "question": "What are the present voter identifications requirements for voting in the US" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "the legislation says, “If a state has a voter identification requirement to cast a ballot in-person or by mail, an individual may make a sworn written statement attesting to their identity to fulfill the identification requirement.” The change would “not affect the Help America Vote Act’s requirements for certain first-time voters who submitted their voter registration by mail.”", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210101184948/https://appropriations.house.gov/sites/democrats.appropriations.house.gov/files/documents/Heroes%20Act%20Summary.pdf", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210101184948/https://appropriations.house.gov/sites/democrats.appropriations.house.gov/files/documents/Heroes%20Act%20Summary.pdf" } ], "question": "What would the HEROES act change" } ]

[ "Numerical Claim" ]

[ "Numerical Comparison" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "8.2%", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515193619/https://africacheck.org/sites/default/files/Kenya-Tourism-Data-2020.pdf", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://africacheck.org/sites/default/files/Kenya-Tourism-Data-2020.pdf" }, { "answer": "10%", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515193644/https://africacheck.org/sites/default/files/TOURISM-SECTOR-Plan-2018-2022-1.pdf", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://africacheck.org/sites/default/files/TOURISM-SECTOR-Plan-2018-2022-1.pdf" }, { "answer": "10.9%", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515193714/https://africacheck.org/sites/default/files/UNCTAD-2017-Tourism-Report.pdf", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://africacheck.org/sites/default/files/UNCTAD-2017-Tourism-Report.pdf" } ], "question": "How much does tourism contribute to Kenya's GDP?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Agriculture remained the dominant sector,\naccounting for slightly over a third of the total value of the economy", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515193745/https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3.sourceafrica.net/documents/119905/KNBS-Economic-Survey-2020.pdf", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3.sourceafrica.net/documents/119905/KNBS-Economic-Survey-2020.pdf" } ], "question": "What is one of the highest sectors contributing to Kenya's economy?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "The post claims the only actions government took were collecting data, encouraging testing and vaccinations, adding that Congress and the media focused on the Vietnam War, civil rights movements and landing on the moon.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "During the 1968 flu pandemic, no businesses were ordered to close and large events such as Woodstock were still able to be held?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Nothing was closed by force. Schools mostly stayed open. Businesses did too. You could go to the movies. You could go to bars and restaurants", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210804114713/https://www.aier.org/article/woodstock-occurred-in-the-middle-of-a-pandemic/?fbclid=IwAR2LRBJgUa881dISArrXVuxHKksQY8Jx_HfOauZhrDKf841E4eulGPYc2_c", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210804114713/https://www.aier.org/article/woodstock-occurred-in-the-middle-of-a-pandemic/?fbclid=IwAR2LRBJgUa881dISArrXVuxHKksQY8Jx_HfOauZhrDKf841E4eulGPYc2_c" } ], "question": "During the 1968 Flu pandemic were any business's or schools forced to close in the USA?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "he Hong Kong flu, also known as the 1968 flu pandemic, was a flu pandemic whose outbreak in 1968 and 1969", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510100730/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_flu", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_flu" } ], "question": "How long did the 1968 Flu pandemic last?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "August 15–18, 1969", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515111144/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock" } ], "question": "When did Woodstock take place?" } ]

[ "Causal Claim", "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Numerical Comparison", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "All vaccine ingredients are present only in very small quantities, and there is no evidence that they cause harm in these amounts.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210519225228/http://vk.ovg.ox.ac.uk/vk/vaccine-ingredients#formaldehyde", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210519225228/http://vk.ovg.ox.ac.uk/vk/vaccine-ingredients#formaldehyde" } ], "question": "Can the ingredients used in a vaccine dose be considered toxic?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "All vaccine ingredients are present only in very small quantities, and there is no evidence that they cause harm in these amounts.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210519225228/http://vk.ovg.ox.ac.uk/vk/vaccine-ingredients#formaldehyde", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210519225228/http://vk.ovg.ox.ac.uk/vk/vaccine-ingredients#formaldehyde" } ], "question": "Can the ingredients used in a vaccine dose be considered carcinogenic?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Unlike food products, the list of vaccine ingredients may include products used during the manufacturing process, even if they do not remain in the finished product.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210519225228/http://vk.ovg.ox.ac.uk/vk/vaccine-ingredients#formaldehyde", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210519225228/http://vk.ovg.ox.ac.uk/vk/vaccine-ingredients#formaldehyde" } ], "question": "Do all ingredients shown on a vaccine go into the final product?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "many of the items listed do not actually remain in the finished vaccine. If they do, they will often be present in trace amounts.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210519225228/http://vk.ovg.ox.ac.uk/vk/vaccine-ingredients#formaldehyde", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210519225228/http://vk.ovg.ox.ac.uk/vk/vaccine-ingredients#formaldehyde" } ], "question": "Are some toxic vaccine ingredients used in the manufacturing process but do not go into the vaccine itself?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "A two year old child in Canada would receive eight vaccines, spread across 17 or 18 doses.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210518122528/https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/publications/healthy-living/canadian-immunization-guide-part-1-key-immunization-information/page-13-recommended-immunization-schedules.html#p4c21a6b", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210518122528/https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/publications/healthy-living/canadian-immunization-guide-part-1-key-immunization-information/page-13-recommended-immunization-schedules.html#p4c21a6b" } ], "question": "How many vaccines does a child receive in Canada?" } ]

[ "Quote Verification" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Fact-checker Reference" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "A BILL\nTo regulate assault weapons, to ensure that the right to\nkeep and bear arms is not unlimited, and for other purposes. \nv", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515193843/https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-113s150is/pdf/BILLS-113s150is.pdf", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-113s150is/pdf/BILLS-113s150is.pdf" } ], "question": "How does the US Congress Assault Weapons Ban of 2013 which followed the mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut US describe itself." }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The problem with expanding this is that, you know, with the advent of PTSD, which I think is a new phenomenon as a product of the Iraq War, it’s not clear how the seller or transferrer of a firearm covered by this bill would verify that an individual was a member, or a veteran, and that there was no impairment of that individual with respect to having a weapon like this...\n...find a way that veterans who are incapacitated for one reason or another mentally, don’t have access to this kind of weapon", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201223084535/https://www.c-span.org/video/?311364-1/gun-control-legislation-markup,https://www.c-span.org/video/?311364-1/gun-control-legislation-markup", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201223084535/https://www.c-span.org/video/?311364-1/gun-control-legislation-markup,https://www.c-span.org/video/?311364-1/gun-control-legislation-markup" } ], "question": "Did Democratic California Sen. Dianne Feinstein have any concerns with an amendment proposed by Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn to allow military veterans to be exempt from the ban?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Tom Mentzer, Feinstein’s spokesman, told The Associated Press that the quote was false.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515193858/https://apnews.com/afs:Content:2296620995", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://apnews.com/afs:Content:2296620995" } ], "question": "What did Tom Mentzer, Feinstein’s spokesman, say when asked about the authenticity of the quote?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Searched For: \"all vets are mentally ill\"\t\nNo results found", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515193943/https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/search?p=search&q=%22all+vets+are+mentally+ill%22", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/search?p=search&q=%22all+vets+are+mentally+ill%22" }, { "answer": "No results for \"\"all vets are mentally ill\" (from:SenFeinstein)\"", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515194002/https://abs.twimg.com/sticky/illustrations/empty-states/rubber-chicken-800x400.v1.png", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://abs.twimg.com/sticky/illustrations/empty-states/rubber-chicken-800x400.v1.png" }, { "answer": "Fact check: Senator Dianne Feinstein did not say that all veterans are “mentally ill”", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515194021/https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-senator-dianne-feinstein-ve/fact-check-senator-dianne-feinstein-did-not-say-that-all-veterans-arementally-ill-idUSKCN24E21G", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-senator-dianne-feinstein-ve/fact-check-senator-dianne-feinstein-did-not-say-that-all-veterans-arementally-ill-idUSKCN24E21G" } ], "question": "What comment was recorded in resources her Senate website, social media and media outlets?" } ]

[ "Position Statement" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Soros said in an interview that: \"This is the crisis of my lifetime. Even before the pandemic hit, I realized that we were in a revolutionary moment where what would be impossible or even inconceivable in normal times had become not only possible, but probably absolutely necessary. And then came COVID-19, which has totally disrupted people’s lives and required very different behavior. It is an unprecedented event that probably has never occurred in this combination. And it really endangers the survival of our civilization.\"", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210120094735/https://www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/the-crisis-of-a-lifetime-by-george-soros-and-gregor-peter-schmitz-2020-05", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210120094735/https://www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/the-crisis-of-a-lifetime-by-george-soros-and-gregor-peter-schmitz-2020-05" } ], "question": "What has George Soros said about Covid-19 pandemic?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Soros did no mention opportunities in his interview but talked about the future of capitalism: \"We will not go back to where we were when the pandemic started. That is pretty certain. But that is the only thing that is certain. Everything else is up for grabs. I do not think anybody knows how capitalism will evolve.\"", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210120094735/https://www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/the-crisis-of-a-lifetime-by-george-soros-and-gregor-peter-schmitz-2020-05", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210120094735/https://www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/the-crisis-of-a-lifetime-by-george-soros-and-gregor-peter-schmitz-2020-05" } ], "question": "What has George Soros said about the opportunities created by Covid-19 pandemic?" } ]

[ "Numerical Claim", "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Numerical Comparison" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Though the United States has ramped up testing from 150,000 tests per day from a month ago to 300,000 per day recently, the current rate still remains far behind the five million daily target he (Donald Trump) himself set last month.", "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "Is the United States meeting its daily testing target set by President Donald Trump?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "As of the 2nd of March 2020, the United States comes in 9th with South Korea being at No. 1 for Coronavirus Testing: Criteria and Numbers by Country.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230504005803/https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/covid-19-testing/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/covid-19-testing/" } ], "question": "How does COVID-19 testing in the U.S. compare to other countries?" } ]

[ "Position Statement", "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to eligible entities to conduct diagnostic testing for COVID–19, and related activities such as contact tracing, through mobile health units and, as necessary, at individuals’ residences, and for other purposes.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230425202841/https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6666/text?r=2&s=1", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6666/text?r=2&s=1" } ], "question": "What is House resolution 6666?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "COVID–19 TESTING AND CONTACT TRACING USING MOBILE HEALTH UNITS.\n\n(a) In General.—The Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, may award grants to eligible entities to conduct diagnostic testing for COVID–19, to trace and monitor the contacts of infected individuals, and to support the quarantine of such contacts, through—\n\n(1) mobile health units; and\n\n(2) as necessary, testing individuals and providing individuals with services related to testing and quarantine at their residences.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230425202841/https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6666/text?r=2&s=1", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6666/text?r=2&s=1" } ], "question": "Does the Bill make any other mention of residences?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "11th May 2020", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "What date was the claim made?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes, the actress was listed in a tweet as talent on the network.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515194133/https://twitter.com/supernegatrona/status/1257667034277531648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1257667034277531648%7Ctwgr%5Ed372ec4907eb75b187e99c2540af46a3f75911fb%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreen.ph%2F109892%2Fabscbnshutdown-celebrities-backlash", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://twitter.com/supernegatrona/status/1257667034277531648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1257667034277531648%7Ctwgr%5Ed372ec4907eb75b187e99c2540af46a3f75911fb%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreen.ph%2F109892%2Fabscbnshutdown-celebrities-backlash" } ], "question": "Did Toni Gonzaga work for the ABS-CBN network around or before may 2020?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "A cursory search does not show any records substantiating this claim.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "Did the actress say '' I would leave the network \"immediately\" if I got paid higher''?" } ]

[ "Numerical Claim" ]

[ "Numerical Comparison", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Professor John Aston, the Home Office’s Chief Scientific Advisor, provided evidence to MPs about his department’s estimates, saying: “The numbers for April I can tell you are that up to the 26th April from aviation there were 95,000 arrivals, of which about 53,000 were UK citizens.” The 95,000 figure was confirmed to us by the Home Office and suggests the total number of arrivals since mid- to late March would have been well in excess of 100,000", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515194212/https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/db4b4a5a-cb30-4fe0-bfac-bda0d149d2d0?in=15:21:10&out=15:22:17", "source_medium": "Video", "source_url": "https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/db4b4a5a-cb30-4fe0-bfac-bda0d149d2d0?in=15:21:10&out=15:22:17" } ], "question": "At the time of the claim, how many people had arrived in the UK since Mid to late March 2020?" } ]

[ "Numerical Claim" ]

[ "Numerical Comparison" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "30 in Allegany, \n34 in Cattaraugus and \n25 in Chautauqua", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210120035337/https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/amid-ongoing-covid-19-pandemic-governor-cuomo-calls-federal-government-provide-hazard-pay", "source_medium": "Web table", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210120035337/https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/amid-ongoing-covid-19-pandemic-governor-cuomo-calls-federal-government-provide-hazard-pay" } ], "question": "What is the infection rate in the Allegany, Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "NYC with 138, 806\nNassau with 30, 677\nSuffolk with 27, 662\nWestchester with 24, 306", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210120035337/https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/amid-ongoing-covid-19-pandemic-governor-cuomo-calls-federal-government-provide-hazard-pay", "source_medium": "Web table", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210120035337/https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/amid-ongoing-covid-19-pandemic-governor-cuomo-calls-federal-government-provide-hazard-pay" } ], "question": "Which counties have the highest prevalence" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Up to May 11, 2020 data from Governor Cuomo of New York State for COVID-19 total positive figures by state in ascending order.\n\nFrom COVID-19 Infection rate data for 58 counties; Allegany, Chautauqua, and Cattaraugus counties as referenced in the in the claim rank 8th, 9th & 13th respectively from the bottom of NY state county data.\n\nTherefore these three counties fall in the bottom 1/4 of results for the 58 counties listed with data.\n\nCounty - Total Positive\nHamilton - 5\nSchuyler - 7\nLewis - 11\nFranklin - 17\nYates - 21\nCortland - 29\nEssex - 32\nAllegany - 38\nChautauqua - 41\nSchoharie - 46\nSeneca - 49\nCayuga - 60\nCattaraugus - 61\nDelaware - 65\nMontgomery - 67\nOtsego - 67\nJefferson - 68\nOswego - 75\nClinton - 76\nWyoming - 77\nHerkimer - 81\nWayne - 81\nLivingston - 102\nOntario - 107\nTioga - 107\nFulton - 109\nChenango - 111\nOrleans - 130\nChemung - 131\nTompkins - 132\nGenesee - 173\nSt. Lawrence - 190\nGreene - 206\nWashington - 210\nWarren - 217\nSteuben - 228\nMadison - 251\nColumbia - 314\nBroome - 378\nSaratoga - 403\nRensselaer - 411\nSchenectady - 575\nNiagara - 655\nOneida - 669\nPutnam - 1098\nSullivan - 1109\nOnondaga - 1287\nUlster - 1454\nAlbany - 1456\nMonroe - 1850\nDutchess - 3378\nErie - 4483\nOrange - 9584\nRockland - 12484\nWestchester - 31384\nSuffolk - 36911\nNassau - 38337\nNYC - 185357", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210226160356/https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/amid-ongoing-covid-19-pandemic-governor-cuomo-announces-three-regions-new-york-state-ready", "source_medium": "Web table", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210226160356/https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/amid-ongoing-covid-19-pandemic-governor-cuomo-announces-three-regions-new-york-state-ready" }, { "answer": "From COVID-19 Infection rate data for 58 counties; Allegany, Chautauqua, and Cattaraugus counties as referenced in the in the claim, rank 8th, 9th & 13th respectively from the bottom of NY state county data (no. of positive COVID-19 cases by county).\n\nUp to May 11, 2020 data from Governor Cuomo of New York State for COVID-19 total positive figures by state in ascending order (lowest to highest).\n\n\nTherefore these three counties fall in the bottom 1/4 of results for the 58 counties listed with data.\n\nCounty - Total Positive\nHamilton - 5\nSchuyler - 7\nLewis - 11\nFranklin - 17\nYates - 21\nCortland - 29\nEssex - 32\nAllegany - 38\nChautauqua - 41\nSchoharie - 46\nSeneca - 49\nCayuga - 60\nCattaraugus - 61\nDelaware - 65\nMontgomery - 67\nOtsego - 67\nJefferson - 68\nOswego - 75\nClinton - 76\nWyoming - 77\nHerkimer - 81\nWayne - 81\nLivingston - 102\nOntario - 107\nTioga - 107\nFulton - 109\nChenango - 111\nOrleans - 130\nChemung - 131\nTompkins - 132\nGenesee - 173\nSt. Lawrence - 190\nGreene - 206\nWashington - 210\nWarren - 217\nSteuben - 228\nMadison - 251\nColumbia - 314\nBroome - 378\nSaratoga - 403\nRensselaer - 411\nSchenectady - 575\nNiagara - 655\nOneida - 669\nPutnam - 1098\nSullivan - 1109\nOnondaga - 1287\nUlster - 1454\nAlbany - 1456\nMonroe - 1850\nDutchess - 3378\nErie - 4483\nOrange - 9584\nRockland - 12484\nWestchester - 31384\nSuffolk - 36911\nNassau - 38337\nNYC - 185357", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210226160356/https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/amid-ongoing-covid-19-pandemic-governor-cuomo-announces-three-regions-new-york-state-ready", "source_medium": "Web table", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210226160356/https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/amid-ongoing-covid-19-pandemic-governor-cuomo-announces-three-regions-new-york-state-ready" } ], "question": "How do these three counties in the claim compare with the remaining counties in New York State based on published COVID-19 positive result data at the time?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Satirical Source Identification" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "bustaroll.org", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "Where was this claim published?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The site is part of the \"America's Last Line of Defense\" network of satire websites run by self-professed liberal troll Christopher Blair from Maine along with a loose confederation of friends and allies. He runs several websites and Facebook pages with visible satire disclaimers everywhere.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "What is Bustaroll?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "The women shown are women involved in smuggling drugs fromPeru.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515194308/https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/peru-drug-arrests-dungannon-woman-michaella-mccollum-forced-to-carry-drugs/29526350.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/peru-drug-arrests-dungannon-woman-michaella-mccollum-forced-to-carry-drugs-29526350.html" } ], "question": "Is the photo in the claim Nancy Pelosis daughters ?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Her children are named Nancy, Christine, Jacqueline, Paul and Alexandra", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230502145836/https://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/01/us/nancy-pelosi-fast-facts/index.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/01/us/nancy-pelosi-fast-facts/index.html" } ], "question": "Are Nancy Pelosi's daughters called Melissa and Daphne as mentioned in claim?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "The injured priest has been identified as Tamal Krishna Das. His injuries were a result of a fight that broke out between him and supporters of incumbent temple trust chairman BP Sadhu inside the Gaudiya mutt complex in Vrindavan’s Imlitala area on May 11.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230418231829/https://twitter.com/mathurapolice/status/1260070215800377344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw", "source_medium": "Video", "source_url": "https://twitter.com/mathurapolice/status/1260070215800377344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" } ], "question": "Who assaulted the priest in Imlitala on 11/05/2020?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "what was the reason for the assault" } ]

[ "Quote Verification" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "There is nothing about the guidelines on the official ICMR website", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201105031823/https://main.icmr.nic.in/content/guidelines-0", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201105031823/https://main.icmr.nic.in/content/guidelines-0" } ], "question": "What does the ICMR website say about the travel guidelines in their name" } ]

[ "Position Statement" ]

[ "Satirical Source Identification" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Health departments have the authority to issue legal orders of quarantine, should the situation warrant that measure.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210709232344/https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/php/principles-contact-tracing.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210709232344/https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/php/principles-contact-tracing.html" } ], "question": "What authority does the government have in regards to people who have COVID-19" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "There is nothing in the text of the bill", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210714151013/https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6666/text?r=2&s=1", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210714151013/https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6666/text?r=2&s=1" } ], "question": "Is there a part of the H. R 6666 bill that supports the forcible removal of children from their homes if infected" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "No, \nThere is a resolution that was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on May 1 \"to authorize the secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to eligible entities to conduct diagnostic testing for COVID-19, and related activities such as contact tracing, through mobile health units and, as necessary, at individuals’ residences, and for other purposes.\" But H.R. 6666 doesn’t mention microchips or suggest that people should or will be chipped if they’re tested for COVID-19.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210313181354/https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6666/text", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210313181354/https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6666/text" } ], "question": "Do Democrats want to implant people with microchips ?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No however the Supreme Court long ago decided that the government has that power. This authority is now used in all 50 states.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210225223215/https://www.oyez.org/cases/1900-1940/197us11", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210225223215/https://www.oyez.org/cases/1900-1940/197us11" } ], "question": "Are Democrats aiming to get everyone vaccinated?" } ]

[ "Position Statement" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Narayana Health said that it is not true. They commented on the KMA's posts and said that the audio isn't by Dr Shetty and has been wrongly attributed to him.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515194418/https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/bangalore/others/confusion-over-quarantine-and-stamping/articleshowajax/74701523.cms?version=18&enforceseoatarticle=0&lastarticle=74701451&photocount=6&photoexclude=3", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/bangalore/others/fake-news-buster-audio-wrongly-attributed-to-dr-devi-shetty/articleshow/74718256.cms" } ], "question": "Did Dr Shetty prescribed 22 measures via audio note, as preventives against coronavirus ?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "However, one little fact that gets sidelined is that, being a cardiothoracic surgeon by training, he is unlikely to have expertise in public health, epidemiology, statistics, planning, management etc. Secondly, being the Chairman of a corporate chain of hospitals, he has a terribly strong conflict of interest.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515194513/https://www.roundtableindia.co.in/why-dr-devi-shetty-s-25-or-2500-ways-to-manage-covid-19-should-be-rejected-outright/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.roundtableindia.co.in/why-dr-devi-shetty-s-25-or-2500-ways-to-manage-covid-19-should-be-rejected-outright/" } ], "question": "Is Dr Devi Shetty an expert on coronavirus ?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "China a hotbed for pandemics historically", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515194631/https://ipdefenseforum.com/2020/03/china-a-hotbed-for-pandemics-historically-experts-say/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://ipdefenseforum.com/2020/03/china-a-hotbed-for-pandemics-historically-experts-say/" } ], "question": "viral outbreaks that have spread internationally between 1950 and 2019 mostly originated in china" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "In February 1957, a new influenza A (H2N2) virus emerged in East Asia, triggering a pandemic (“Asian Flu”). This H2N2 virus was comprised of three different genes from an H2N2 virus that originated from an avian influenza A virus, including the H2 hemagglutinin and the N2 neuraminidase genes. It was first reported in Singapore in February 1957, Hong Kong in April 1957, and in coastal cities in the United States in summer 1957", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210127225446/https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1957-1958-pandemic.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210127225446/https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1957-1958-pandemic.html" }, { "answer": "Swine flu - The 2009 H1N1 influenza virus (referred to as “swine flu” early on) was first detected in people in the United States in April 2009.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210203235024/https://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/information_h1n1_virus_qa.htm#a", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210203235024/https://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/information_h1n1_virus_qa.htm#a" } ], "question": "Are there examples of viral outbreaks mentioned in the claim that did not start in China?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "What are the ingredients in the 2020 flu shots in the US?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Thimerosal is a preservative used in multi-dose vials of the flu vaccine to keep them free from contamination and contains an organic form of mercury called ethyl mercury.\n\nEthyl mercury is not the same as methyl mercury, which may be found in fish and shellfish. Methyl mercury stays in the body and can make people sick, while thimerosal doesn't stay in the body. There is no evidence of harm caused by the low doses of thimerosal in vaccines.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230424141236/http://www.ontario.ca/page/flu-vaccine-safety-effectiveness", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.ontario.ca/page/flu-vaccine-safety-effectiveness" } ], "question": "Is mercury in the flu shot 2020?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The vaccine does not contain squalene, which has been accused – also without good evidence – of causing Gulf War syndrome.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230322071359/https://www.factcheck.org/2009/10/inoculation-misinformation/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.factcheck.org/2009/10/inoculation-misinformation/" } ], "question": "Is antifreeze in the flu shot 2020?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Phenol is used as a preservativeTrusted Source in at least four vaccines. It helps keep bacteria from growing in and contaminating the vaccine solutions.\n\nPneumovax 23 for conditions like pneumonia and meningitis\nTyphim Vi for typhoid fever\nACAM2000 for smallpox\na phenol compound called 2-Phenoxyethanol is used in the vaccine Ipol, for polio", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230421194652/https://www.healthline.com/health/what-is-phenol", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.healthline.com/health/what-is-phenol#medical-uses" } ], "question": "Is phenol in the 2020 flu shot?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "Is animal blood in the 2020 flu shot?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Many flu vaccines are made by growing the viruses inside fertilized chicken eggs. This means that they contain a small amount of egg protein.\n\nA newer version of the vaccine, called Flucelvax, is grown in animal cells instead.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515194914/https://www.healthline.com/health/cold-flu/flu-shot-ingredients", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.healthline.com/health/cold-flu/flu-shot-ingredients#ingredients" } ], "question": "Are animal viruses in the 2020 flu shot?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Vaccine skeptics point to inactive ingredients used in some versions of flu vaccines. Thimerosal is used as a preservative and formaldehyde is used in killing the live virus to make it inactivated, as noted above. Repeated studies have shown that these substances are not harmful in the tiny amounts contained in flu vaccines.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230427142445/https://wa-health.kaiserpermanente.org/flu-shot-reactions-myths/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://wa-health.kaiserpermanente.org/flu-shot-reactions-myths/" } ], "question": "Is Formaldehyde in the 2020 flu shot?" } ]

[ "Quote Verification" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Satirical Source Identification" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Trump had not published the tweet in question.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "Did Donald Trump tweet \"American shops want to open! Hair needs cutting. Demokraps don’t want to bite the bullet but that’s the price we have to pay. Some oldies will have to die. We’re in God’s hands, folks! Liberate America\"?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Vice President Mike Pence stopped by a nursing home to help deliver personal protective equipment.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515195019/https://www.businessinsider.com/jimmy-kimmel-mike-pence-carrying-empty-boxes-video-2020-5?r=US&IR=T", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/jimmy-kimmel-mike-pence-carrying-empty-boxes-video-2020-5?r=US&IR=T" } ], "question": "Did Mike Pence deliver PPE to a hospital?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "After carrying a few boxes that appeared full of supplies, Pence was informed that the rest of the boxes in the van were empty and that his task was complete.\n\"Well, can I carry the empty ones? Just for the cameras?\" Pence joked.\n\"Absolutely,\" an aide said as the group laughed.\nPence then shuts the doors to the van and returns to talk to facility members from the nursing home.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515195019/https://www.businessinsider.com/jimmy-kimmel-mike-pence-carrying-empty-boxes-video-2020-5?r=US&IR=T", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/jimmy-kimmel-mike-pence-carrying-empty-boxes-video-2020-5?r=US&IR=T" } ], "question": "Were the PPE boxes that Mike Pence delivered empty?" } ]

[ "Causal Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Numerical Comparison" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "1.9 Million.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "How many jobs were lost during the US Great Depression?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "20.5 Million.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210721085036mp_/https://www.bls.gov/covid19/effects-of-covid-19-pandemic-on-employment-and-unemployment-statistics.htm", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210721085036mp_/https://www.bls.gov/covid19/effects-of-covid-19-pandemic-on-employment-and-unemployment-statistics.htm" } ], "question": "How many jobs were lost in the US during covid?" } ]

[ "Quote Verification" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "During his May 4th Town Hall speech", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210228071630/https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/joe-biden-town-hall-protecting-essential-workers", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210228071630/https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/joe-biden-town-hall-protecting-essential-workers" } ], "question": "Where did Joe Biden allegedly say that voting by mail is a way to “fundamentally change\" the United States?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Protecting essential workers", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210228071630/https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/joe-biden-town-hall-protecting-essential-workers", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210228071630/https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/joe-biden-town-hall-protecting-essential-workers" } ], "question": "What was Joe Biden's May 4th Speech about?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Biden expressed continued support for in-person voting during the crisis. “A convention, having tens of thousands of people in one arena, is very different than having people walk into a polling booth with accurate spacing with 6-10 feet apart, one at a time going in, and having the machines scrubbed down,” Biden said last Thursday. “I think you could hold the election as well, dealing with mail-in ballots and same day registration. I mean, there’s a lot of things that can be done—that’s for the Wisconsin courts and folks to decide.”", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421203634/https://www.thedailybeast.com/theres-a-voter-shaped-hole-in-joe-bidens-coronavirus-plan", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421203634/https://www.thedailybeast.com/theres-a-voter-shaped-hole-in-joe-bidens-coronavirus-plan" } ], "question": "How does Joe Biden suggest protection of essential workers safety during election season in the United States?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is calling on Congress to provide enough money for every state to allow voters to cast a ballot by mail this November amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIn making that pitch during an online fundraiser Thursday night, Biden blasted President Donald Trump for working to block emergency funding for the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service, which would handle tens of millions of ballots this fall. Biden said it’s evidence that Trump already is trying to “undermine” the election and make it more difficult for Americans to vote.\n\n“We have to make it easier for everybody to be able to vote, particularly if we are still basically in the kind of lockdown circumstances we are in now,” Biden told about 650 donors. “But that takes a lot of money, and it’s going to require us to provide money for states and insist they provide mail-in ballots.”\n\nIt’s perhaps Biden's most explicit call for a national mail election since COVID-19 upended the 2020 campaign and every aspect of American life. The former vice president doesn’t propose eliminating in-person voting. But he said state and local officials must do more to make polling locations conform to public health protocols, while steering voters toward other options.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200428065727/https://www.wcax.com/content/news/Biden-backs-mail-vote-says-Trumps-opposition-un-American-569910261.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200428065727/https://www.wcax.com/content/news/Biden-backs-mail-vote-says-Trumps-opposition-un-American-569910261.html" } ], "question": "How does Joe Biden suggest making the voting process easier during lockdown?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "During his May 4th Town Hall speech", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210228071630/https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/joe-biden-town-hall-protecting-essential-workers", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210228071630/https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/joe-biden-town-hall-protecting-essential-workers" } ], "question": "did Joe Biden allegedly say something would “fundamentally change\" the United States?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "He was talking providing a liveable wage and paid sick leave to workers including meat packers and grocery store clerks.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210124024048/https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/joe-biden-town-hall-protecting-essential-workers", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210124024048/https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/joe-biden-town-hall-protecting-essential-workers" } ], "question": "Was he talking about mail in voting when he said this?" } ]

[ "Quote Verification" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "No. He said that \"there is no way in my opinion, that remote learning can ever be a replacement or a substitute for the classroom experience.\"", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230329054830/https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/andrew-cuomo-new-york-may-20-covid-19-press-conference-transcript", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/andrew-cuomo-new-york-may-20-covid-19-press-conference-transcript" } ], "question": "Did Cuomo say \"we don't need actual classrooms\"?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No. He said that \"there is no way in my opinion, that remote learning can ever be a replacement or a substitute for the classroom experience.\"", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230329054830/https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/andrew-cuomo-new-york-may-20-covid-19-press-conference-transcript", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/andrew-cuomo-new-york-may-20-covid-19-press-conference-transcript" } ], "question": "Did New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo say \"we don't need actual classrooms\"?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Governor Andrew M. Cuomo is the 56th Governor of New York, having assumed office on January 1, 2011.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230324085143/https://www.nga.org/governor/andrew-cuomo/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.nga.org/governor/andrew-cuomo/" } ], "question": "Who is Gov. Andrew Cuomo?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Governor Cuomo proposes to invest $3 million in the We Teach NY program, which will strategically recruit 250 new teachers to fill identified needed positions in New York classrooms in 2024. Therefore, as he is proposing investment in classroom teachers, he cannot be against classrooms.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515195427/https://www.budget.ny.gov/pubs/press/2019/pr-eBudgetfy20.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.budget.ny.gov/pubs/press/2019/pr-eBudgetfy20.html" } ], "question": "Is Governor Andrew M. Cuomo against the use of actual classrooms?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "The mentioned studies do not exist, but weakness is listed as a side effect of the flu vaccination, but such life threatening side effects are rare.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210120073935/https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/flushot.htm", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210120073935/https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/flushot.htm" } ], "question": "What study is being referenced here?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "the CDC says that influenza vaccines make people stronger by cutting the risk of flu illness by between 40 and 60 percent.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210118075857/https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/vaccineeffect.htm", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210118075857/https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/vaccineeffect.htm" } ], "question": "Does the flu vaccine actually work to prevent flu?" } ]

[ "Causal Claim", "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "the Soviet government issued a statement on TASS accepting responsibility for the murders of nearly 22,000 Polish army and police officers and members of the intelligentsia. The statement expressed the government’s deep regret and called the massacre “one of the most heinous crimes of Stalinism.”", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210511172136/https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/04/13/on-this-day-april-13-1990-a65218", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210511172136/https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/04/13/on-this-day-april-13-1990-a65218" } ], "question": "what government was responsible for the mass murders of the polish army" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Russian activists on Thursday removed two plaques memorializing the Stalinist executions of thousands of Polish prisoners of war 80 years ago, following orders from local authorities who claimed there is no evidence of the crimes.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210319113517/https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/05/08/russian-city-removes-plaques-memorializing-polish-pows-massacred-by-stalin-a70222", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210319113517/https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/05/08/russian-city-removes-plaques-memorializing-polish-pows-massacred-by-stalin-a70222" } ], "question": "who removed the katyn plagues" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Founded in 2014 by former U.S. Army Green Beret Evan Hafer, Black Rifle Coffee Company was built upon the mission to serve coffee and culture to people who love America.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://www.blackriflecoffee.com/pages/who-we-are", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.blackriflecoffee.com/pages/who-we-are" } ], "question": "What is the Black Rifle Coffee Company?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Not listed", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515195718/https://canadagazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p2/2020/2020-05-01-x3/html/sor-dors96-eng.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://canadagazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p2/2020/2020-05-01-x3/html/sor-dors96-eng.html" } ], "question": "Is Black Rifle Coffee Company mentioned on the law banning certain firearms?" } ]

[ "Causal Claim" ]

[ "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Thrombosis is the formation of a blood clot in a blood vessel. The vessel may be any vein or artery as for example, in a deep vein thrombosis (venous) or a coronary artery (arterial). The clot itself is termed a thrombus.\nOnce formed, a clot can slow or block normal blood flow, and even break loose and travel to an organ. A clot that travels to the circulation is called an embolism. Thrombosis is the often preventable underlying pathology of heart attack, thromboembolic stroke, and venous thromboembolism (VTE), the top three cardiovascular killers.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515195748/https://www.worldthrombosisday.org/?in-the-media=thrombosis-ireland-has-won-a-global-advocacy-award-as-part-of-the-world-thrombosis-day-campaign", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.worldthrombosisday.org/issue/thrombosis/" } ], "question": "What is Thrombosis?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "COVID-19 is a hypercoagulable state with an increased risk of thromboembolism in hospitalized individuals (typically venous but may be arterial).", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515195816/https://www.uptodate.com/contents/image?imageKey=HEME%2F128045", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.uptodate.com/contents/image?imageKey=HEME%2F128045" } ], "question": "Can Covid 19 cause a Thrombosis?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "In several studies of those who died of COVID-19, acute respiratory failure was the leading cause of death.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515195851/https://www.webmd.com/covid/coronavirus-complications", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.webmd.com/lung/coronavirus-complications#1" } ], "question": "Is Thrombosis the leading killer in patients dying with covid19?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Fact-checker Reference" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "The World Health Organisation does not list any on their website saying that there is no evident that current medicine can cure or prevent the disease.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20220724202805im_/http://newsmobile.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Screenshot-2020-04-15-at-12.02.19.png", "source_medium": "Image/graphic", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20220724202805im_/http://newsmobile.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Screenshot-2020-04-15-at-12.02.19.png" } ], "question": "Is there a known cure for corona virus?" } ]

[ "Numerical Claim" ]

[ "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "China, Until Recently America's Largest Creditor, Won't Be Funding the Stimulus Check", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123093755/https://www.newsweek.com/china-treasury-stimulus-check-debt-us-1499541", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123093755/https://www.newsweek.com/china-treasury-stimulus-check-debt-us-1499541" } ], "question": "Will China be funding the stimulus check for the US Covid-19 relief fund" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Jon Hill, a vice president in the U.S. rates strategy team at BMO Capital Markets, said the Fed is \"by far the most important source of demand for U.S. Treasuries, and will indirectly fund the stimulus program", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123093755/https://www.newsweek.com/china-treasury-stimulus-check-debt-us-1499541", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123093755/https://www.newsweek.com/china-treasury-stimulus-check-debt-us-1499541" } ], "question": "How will the stimulus checks be funded" } ]

[ "Quote Verification" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "06/05/2020", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "When was the claim made" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "NASCAR has removed guidelines that team members must stand for the national anthem", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201030202908/https://nascar.nbcsports.com/2020/06/10/nascar-to-allow-peaceful-protests-during-national-anthem/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201030202908/https://nascar.nbcsports.com/2020/06/10/nascar-to-allow-peaceful-protests-during-national-anthem/" } ], "question": "What is NASCAR's official statement and stand on National Anthem performances" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "There is nothing of the sort on their website", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201024145503/https://www.nascar.com/news-media/category/press-release/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201024145503/https://www.nascar.com/news-media/category/press-release/" } ], "question": "Is there a record or announcement of the ban on NASCAR's website" } ]

[ "Causal Claim", "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Satirical Source Identification" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Chocolate-favs.com", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200511171704/http://www.chocolate-favs.com/go-chomo/?FAVS-FOURC", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200511171704/http://www.chocolate-favs.com/go-chomo/?FAVS-FOURC" } ], "question": "Where did the claim originate?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No this is a scam website which has now been taken down.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "Is Chocolate-favs.com owned by Cadbury?" } ]

[ "Numerical Claim", "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Numerical Comparison" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "36,600\n\nThe National Safety Council (NSC) estimate of total motor-vehicle deaths in the first six months of 2020 is 18,300.\n[Full year estimate = 18,300 x 2 = 36,600]", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201005040310mp_/https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/motor-vehicle/overview/preliminary-estimates/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201005040310mp_/https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/motor-vehicle/overview/preliminary-estimates/" } ], "question": "How many automotive deaths are predicted in the United States for 2020?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "43", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230426161443/https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths?country=~USA", "source_medium": "Web table", "source_url": "https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths?country=~USA" } ], "question": "How many people have died as a result of COVID-19 in the United States as of 13 March 2020?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "As many as 200,000 to 1.7 million people could die.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201001135335mp_/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/us/coronavirus-deaths-estimate.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201001135335mp_/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/us/coronavirus-deaths-estimate.html" }, { "answer": "Best case scenario (0.1% fatality ratio): 327 people\nWorst case scenario (1% fatality ratio): 1.635 million people", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515195937/https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/could-coronavirus-kill-million-americans", "source_medium": "Web table", "source_url": "https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/could-coronavirus-kill-million-americans" } ], "question": "In March 2020 how many people were health experts predicting would die as a result of COVID-19 in the United States?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "one-third of the U.S,", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515195959/https://www.axios.com/2020/03/11/congressional-physician-predicts-70-150-million-us-coronavirus-cases", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.axios.com/congressional-physician-predicts-75-150-million-us-coronavirus-cases-fec69e77-1515-4fbc-8340-c53b65c22c53.html" } ], "question": "Does the U.S Congress predict how much of the U.S population will get Covid?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Fact-checker Reference" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "05/05/2020", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "When was this claim made?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "The United States FDA has made Veklury (remdesivir) available under an emergency access mechanism called an EUA.\nThe EUA is supported by a Secretary of Health and Human Service (HHS) declaration that circumstances exist\nto justify the emergency use of drugs and biological products during the COVID-19 pandemic.\nVeklury has not undergone the same type of review as an FDA-approved or cleared product. FDA may issue an\nEUA when certain criteria are met, which includes that there are no adequate, approved, available alternatives.\nIn addition, the FDA decision is based on the totality of scientific evidence available showing that it is\nreasonable to believe that the product meets certain criteria for safety, performance, and labeling and may be\neffective in treatment of patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. All of these criteria must be met to allow for\nthe product to be used in the treatment of patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230501211431/https://www.fda.gov/media/137565/download", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://www.fda.gov/media/137565/download" }, { "answer": "The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted emergency use authorization (EUA) for the investigational antiviral remdesivir to treat COVID-19. The EUA will facilitate broader use of remdesivir to treat hospitalized patients with severe COVID-19 disease.\n\nRemdesivir is an investigational drug that has not been approved by the FDA for any use. It is not yet known if remdesivir is safe and effective for the treatment of COVID-19.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230512013036/https://www.gilead.com/news-and-press/press-room/press-releases/2020/5/gileads-investigational-antiviral-remdesivir-receives-us-food-and-drug-administration-emergency-use-authorization-for-the-treatment-of-covid19", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.gilead.com/news-and-press/press-room/press-releases/2020/5/gileads-investigational-antiviral-remdesivir-receives-us-food-and-drug-administration-emergency-use-authorization-for-the-treatment-of-covid19" } ], "question": "Has the US FDA approved Remdesivir for the treatment of Covid-19?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "There are no medicines approved by the FDA as safe and\neffective to treat people in the hospital who have COVID-19.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230501211431/https://www.fda.gov/media/137565/download", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://www.fda.gov/media/137565/download" } ], "question": "Have any drugs been approved by the US FDA for the treatment of Covid-19?" } ]

[ "Numerical Claim", "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Numerical Comparison" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "There are many different types of benefit and some people received benefits of more than one type. Therefore totalling the count of recipients for each benefit may result in 'double counting' some people.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515200422/https://ifs.org.uk/articles/benefits-spending-five-charts-uks-ps100bn-bill", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/14011" } ], "question": "How many people in the UK receive benefits from the state?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The total population in the United Kingdom was estimated at 67.5 million people in 2021, according to the latest census figures and projections from Trading Economics.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230315105757/https://tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/population", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/population" } ], "question": "What is the total population of the UK?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "In certain situations, under 18's can get benefits.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515200519/https://www.newham.gov.uk/advice-support-benefits/benefits-may-able-claim/9", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.newham.gov.uk/advice-support-benefits/benefits-may-able-claim/9" } ], "question": "Do under 18's get benefits from the state in the UK?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "As under 18's can claim certain benefits, then they would be included in the figures for claimants of that benefit.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515200519/https://www.newham.gov.uk/advice-support-benefits/benefits-may-able-claim/9", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.newham.gov.uk/advice-support-benefits/benefits-may-able-claim/9" } ], "question": "Are non-adults (aged under 18) included in the numbers claiming benefits?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "yes. It is possible for example to claim for pension credit and housing allowance at the same time.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230417034320/https://www.ageuk.org.uk/information-advice/money-legal/benefits-entitlements/carers-allowance/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.ageuk.org.uk/information-advice/money-legal/benefits-entitlements/carers-allowance/" } ], "question": "Can you receive more than one type of state benefit in the UK?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "Would a person receiving two benefits be counted twice?" } ]

[ "Quote Verification" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "United Progressive Alliance (UPA) is a centre-left political alliance of predominantly left-leaning political parties in India. It was formed after the 2004 general election. The largest party in UPA is Indian National Congress (INC).", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200727194752/https://twitter.com/moneycontrolcom/status/1257602003003494400", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200727194752/https://twitter.com/moneycontrolcom/status/1257602003003494400" } ], "question": "What is the upa?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "In an interview with obel laureate Professor Abhijit Banerjee, Banerjee said Banerjee said the policies put in place by the UPA regime were good but are currently inadequate because they don’t cover a large section of the poor, migrants in particular.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200727194752/https://twitter.com/moneycontrolcom/status/1257602003003494400", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200727194752/https://twitter.com/moneycontrolcom/status/1257602003003494400" } ], "question": "Did MP Rahul Gandhi say weak upa policies were embraced by the current govt?" } ]

[ "Causal Claim", "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "For the general public, wearing gloves is not necessary in most situations, like running errands. CDC recommends wearing gloves when you are cleaning or caring for someone who is sick.\nWearing gloves outside of these instances (for example, when using a shopping cart or using an ATM) will not necessarily protect you from getting COVID-19 and may still lead to the spread of germs.", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/gloves.html" } ], "question": "Is there any guidance about wearing gloves as protection against Covid-19?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "More than 40 migrants trying to reach the UK via the English Channel are thought to have been picked up by the Border Force.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515201949/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-kent-52140352", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-kent-52140352" }, { "answer": "Six boats carrying 96 migrants have been intercepted by the Border Force in the English Channel.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515202016/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-kent-52032819", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-52032819" } ], "question": "Were illegal immigrants reported to have arrived in Dover in March and April 2020?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The BBC reported that apparently staff on board the cutters did not have effective personal protective equipment (PPE) to prevent coronavirus infection when carrying out rescues.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515202014/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-52032819", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-52032819" } ], "question": "Was personal protective equipment (PPE) mentioned in any of the reports?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "Which media reported on a shipment of personal protective equipment (PPE) that had to be destroyed at Dover docks in April 2020." } ]

[ "Causal Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Breathing over and over exhaled air turns into carbon dioxide, which is why we feel dizzy.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "In what setting does the claim say face masks cause inadvertent harm?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "A study did look at the various effects of wearing a mask and the corresponding stress on different physiological activities such as breathing,", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210805011347/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4748517/#CR15", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210805011347/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4748517/#CR15" } ], "question": "Is there any data on face masks causing Discomfort and dizziness from breathing resistance of a face mask?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "the conclusion was that in general increased physical activity leads to more oxygen demand at our tissue level; hence, there could be a less efficient exchange of airflow. But the severity of this also differed from the wearing of face masks.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210805011347/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4748517/#CR15", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210805011347/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4748517/#CR15" } ], "question": "What did the study find from face masks and breathing difficulty?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "another fascinating study among surgeons who routinely wear the ‘surgical mask’ for operations, there was an increase in heart rates and a decrease in oxygen saturation of their blood, after one hour of putting on this type of mask. But the researchers reported these findings as not being conclusive,", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210721083633/http://scielo.isciii.es/pdf/neuro/v19n2/3.pdf", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210721083633/http://scielo.isciii.es/pdf/neuro/v19n2/3.pdf" } ], "question": "Are there any other studies?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Bill Gates is funding efforts to find alternatives to livestock-sourced meat by investing in cultured meat.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515202047/https://civileats.com/2019/11/26/is-a-lab-grown-turkey-in-your-thanksgiving-future/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://civileats.com/2019/11/26/is-a-lab-grown-turkey-in-your-thanksgiving-future/" } ], "question": "Does Microsoft founder Bill Gates have investments in Lab grown meat?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "The Roadmap for \n\nThe roadmap sets out Ireland's plan for lifting COVID-19 restrictions on:\n\n18 May - phase 1\n8 June - phase 2\n29 June - phase 3\n20 July - phase 4\n10 August - phase 5", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200530081517/https://www.gov.ie/en/news/58bc8b-taoiseach-announces-roadmap-for-reopening-society-and-business-and-u/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200530081517/https://www.gov.ie/en/news/58bc8b-taoiseach-announces-roadmap-for-reopening-society-and-business-and-u/" } ], "question": "What has the Ireland's department of Health set as the roadmap for exiting the lockdown" } ]

[ "Position Statement", "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Bill Gates has backed many start up meat alternative projects in efforts to lower Carbon footprints,", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210622203209/https://www.cnbc.com/2015/05/14/hampton-creek-and-impossible-foods-technology.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210622203209/https://www.cnbc.com/2015/05/14/hampton-creek-and-impossible-foods-technology.html" } ], "question": "Has Bill Gates supported meat alternate foods?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "Does Bill Gates want to end livestock production?" } ]

[ "Causal Claim", "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "Are regions with high COVID-19 rates also regions with 5G" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Correlation is when two factors (or variables) are related, but one does not necessarily cause the other\nCausation is when one factor (or variable) causes another", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230402202757/https://www.understandinghealthresearch.org/useful-information/correlation-and-causation-15", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.understandinghealthresearch.org/useful-information/correlation-and-causation-15" } ], "question": "Does correlation equal causation" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "COVID-19 is the disease caused by the coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. It is usually spread from person to person by:\n\nclose contact with an infectious person\ncontact with droplets from an infected person’s cough or sneeze\ntouching objects or surfaces that have droplets from an infected person, and then touching your mouth or face.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230321174854/https://www.health.gov.au/health-alerts/covid-19/symptoms", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.health.gov.au/health-alerts/covid-19/symptoms" } ], "question": "How is COVID-19 formed and spread" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "The Australian Government has also given clear indications that it will not be\nmandatory for any person to install or to use the App.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201217163848/https://www.health.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/2020/04/covidsafe-application-privacy-impact-assessment-covidsafe-application-privacy-impact-assessment.pdf", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201217163848/https://www.health.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/2020/04/covidsafe-application-privacy-impact-assessment-covidsafe-application-privacy-impact-assessment.pdf" } ], "question": "Do rules surrounding the installation of the Australian Covid safe app allow Workplaces and business places to deny access to those without the app installed?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Aspirin is also a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID), which means that it reduces inflammation, although it is not a steroid like cortisone or prednisone.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515202235/https://www.uspharmacist.com/article/lowdose-aspirin", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.uspharmacist.com/article/lowdose-aspirin" } ], "question": "What is aspirin?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "At present there is no evidence of severe adverse events, acute health care utilization, long-term survival, or quality of life in patients with COVID-19, as a result of the use of NSAIDs.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230331075054/https://www.who.int/news-room/commentaries/detail/the-use-of-non-steroidal-anti-inflammatory-drugs-(NSAIDs)-in-patients-with-COVID-19", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.who.int/news-room/commentaries/detail/the-use-of-non-steroidal-anti-inflammatory-drugs-%28nsaids%29-in-patients-with-covid-19" } ], "question": "Do NSAIDs kill Covid-19?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "While some western, traditional or home remedies may provide comfort and alleviate symptoms of mild COVID-19, there are no medicines that have been shown to prevent or cure the disease. WHO does not recommend self-medication with any medicines, including antibiotics, as a prevention or cure for COVID-19. However, there are several ongoing clinical trials of both western and traditional medicines. WHO is coordinating efforts to develop vaccines and medicines to prevent and treat COVID-19 and will continue to provide updated information as soon research results become available.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200725220139/https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/question-and-answers-hub/q-a-detail/q-a-coronaviruses", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200725220139/https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/question-and-answers-hub/q-a-detail/q-a-coronaviruses" } ], "question": "Is there a cure for Covid-19?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "A top White House adviser starkly warned Trump administration officials in late January that the coronavirus crisis could cost the United States trillions of dollars and put millions of Americans at risk of illness or death.\n\nThe warning, written in a memo by Peter Navarro, President Trump’s trade adviser,", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230510190720/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/us/politics/navarro-warning-trump-coronavirus.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/us/politics/navarro-warning-trump-coronavirus.html" } ], "question": "Did anyone predict that Covid could spread from february to May 2020 in the way that it did ?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "But if we assume the case ascertainment rate is better than H1N1 and transmissibility is less than flu (it is still much more transmissible than SARS), and the CFR goes accordingly (1918 pandemic range). And if we assume the case ascertainment rate is even worse than 2009 H1N1, this is really unbelievable (higher transmissibility than flu). Carter Mecher, a senior medical adviser to the Department of Veterans Affairs\n\nAny way you cut it, this is going to be bad. You guys made fun of me screaming to close the schools. Now I’m screaming, close the colleges and universities.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230511021547/https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/6879-2020-covid-19-red-dawn-rising/66f590d5cd41e11bea0f/optimized/full.pdf", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/6879-2020-covid-19-red-dawn-rising/66f590d5cd41e11bea0f/optimized/full.pdf" } ], "question": "Were there any other warnings?" } ]

[ "Quote Verification" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "One of China’s richest men, Jack Ma is founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba (BABA)", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230512073115/https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/15/business/jack-ma-996-china/index.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/15/business/jack-ma-996-china/index.html" } ], "question": "Who is 'Jack Ma' that the claim refers to?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Alibaba Groups Indonesia’s Director of Corporate Affairs, Dian Safitri. said,\n the quote about 2020 is just a year of survival did not come from Jack Ma. “There is no record that Jack Ma ever delivered the message,” Dian said on May 8, 2020.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200914200127/https://turnbackhoax.id/2020/05/11/false-jack-mas-advice-hopefully-we-can-get-through-2020/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200914200127/https://turnbackhoax.id/2020/05/11/false-jack-mas-advice-hopefully-we-can-get-through-2020/" } ], "question": "Did the Alibaba founder Jack Ma say ''2020 is not the year of thinking about your dreams or plans, but just to ensure that you stay alive''" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Seats are arranged with a gap of at least three feet between the seats where the audience sits. (translated)", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515202402/https://123telugu.com/telugu/news/theaters-in-rearrangement-of-seating-system.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://123telugu.com/telugu/news/theaters-in-rearrangement-of-seating-system.html" } ], "question": "Has the seating been changed in Sudarshan 35mm cinema to suit social distancing ?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "This claim is totally false and the link given is fake. The Department of Telecom has not made any such announcement.\n\n(translated)", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515202430/https://twitter.com/PIBFactCheck/status/1257586785246343168", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://twitter.com/PIBFactCheck/status/1257586785246343168" } ], "question": "Has the Department of Telecom in India made internet free to use until may 17th 2020?" } ]

[ "Position Statement", "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Cuomo said; 'What the federal government did, what the states did, what the healthcare workers did, the way Americans responded and acted responsibly, it is better than any of the predictors. The President is right when he gets up there and says the models had many more people dying. President’s right. '", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210613154239/https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/andrew-cuomo-new-york-covid-19-briefing-transcript-april-19", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210613154239/https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/andrew-cuomo-new-york-covid-19-briefing-transcript-april-19" } ], "question": "Did N.Y Gov Andrew Cuomo praise president Donald trumps response to the covid 19 pandemic in the U.S?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "California’s Gavin Newsom said; yesterday I announced that the President was extending support for new swabs, to get more specimens to increase our testing capacity. We got word today that 100,000 swabs that he committed this week, 90,000 are arriving and we’ll start to distribute them in the next day or so. That’s very encouraging.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210804215100/https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/gov-gavin-newsom-california-covid-19-briefing-transcript-april-23", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210804215100/https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/gov-gavin-newsom-california-covid-19-briefing-transcript-april-23" } ], "question": "Did California’s Gavin Newsom praise president Donald trumps response to the covid 19 pandemic in the U.S?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "The Trump ad omits Cuomo’s reference to \"working with the states,\" but the essence of this statement in the ad is accurate. The ad portrays Cuomo as complimentary of Trump, even though the governor at times has been one of the most high-profile critics of the Trump administration’s pandemic response.\n\nBefore the pandemic, Newsom was a frequent Trump critic and in February called California the \"most un-Trump state in America.\" During the pandemic, Newsom has praised Trump, and the president has returned the favor.\n\n In April, Cuomo said Trump was \"just wrong\" in claiming the power to tell states when to lift restrictions, and days later Cuomo mocked Trump and suggested he wasn’t doing enough to funnel funding and tests to the states.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210506215901/https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2020/04/17/cuomo-mocks-trump-in-friday-diatribe-1277535", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210506215901/https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2020/04/17/cuomo-mocks-trump-in-friday-diatribe-1277535" } ], "question": "Are these quotes taken out of context?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Biden said that the pandemic was \"no time for Donald Trump's record of...hysterical xenophobia, and fear-mongering to lead the way instead of science\".", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515202549/https://accounts.google.com/v3/signin/identifier?dsh=S-2079808646%3A1684182349928706&continue=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fsignin%3Faction_handle_signin%3Dtrue%26app%3Ddesktop%26hl%3Den%26next%3D%252Fsignin_passive%26feature%3Dpassive&hl=en&ifkv=Af_xneH7ck98MiDOaWg3te81V-cmto3O2wNjfJC-JI_AS3__LlPQhgjCtRvjLNAtANGlry2JLt7goQ&passive=true&service=youtube&uilel=3&flowName=GlifWebSignIn&flowEntry=ServiceLogin", "source_medium": "Video", "source_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=474&v=QiOKZ8ARmqM&feature=youtu.be" } ], "question": "What did Joe Biden say about Trump's Covid pandemic response in 2020?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Pelosi ripped up her copy of Trump's speech during his Feb 4 2020 Stage of the Union Speech but there is no evidence this was because of his pandemic response. Pelosi said it was because Trump had \"shredded the truth in his speech\".", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20211123130611/https://www.c-span.org/video/?469048-1/speaker-pelosi-holds-weekly-news-conference", "source_medium": "Video", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20211123130611/https://www.c-span.org/video/?469048-1/speaker-pelosi-holds-weekly-news-conference" } ], "question": "Has Nancy Pelosi attacked Trump's pandemic response in 2020?" } ]

[ "Quote Verification" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "The Fula people, often described as the Fulani, are regarded as the world’s largest nomadic group: about 20 million people dispersed across Western Africa. They reside mostly in Nigeria, Mali, Guinea, Cameroon, Senegal, and Niger. They also can be found in Central African Republic and Egypt.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515202741/https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/who-are-the-fulani/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/who-are-the-fulani/" } ], "question": "What are the Fulani Herdsmen?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Fulani herds have gradually been pushed southward toward Nigeria’s “Middle Belt,” a handful of states straddling the pre-colonial line dividing Nigeria’s predominantly Muslim north from its Christian south. The Middle Belt is a farming region, and the advancing Fulani-owned herds have increasingly encroached on croplands.\n\nThe resulting conflicts over land have taken on an ethnic and religious character, as many of the farmers of Nigeria’s Middle Belt are ethnic Berom, an indigenous people who are predominantly Christian.\n\nFulani herders have recently killed hundreds in Benue, Plateau, Adamawa and Enugu states, among others, with many of the suspected killers not arrested for prosecution, despite the repeated promises by the government, especially the police, to stop the nefarious activities of the killer herders and bring them to justice.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515202832/https://punchng.com/fulani-herdsmen-farmers-amass-arms-combat-killings/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://punchng.com/fulani-herdsmen-farmers-amass-arms-combat-killings/" } ], "question": "What are the Fulani Herdsmen killings?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yemi Osinbajo had continually defended some inglorious policies of the Federal Government giving excuses for them. At a recent outing to the launch of a book to commemorate the 80th birthday of Olusegun Osoba, Osinbajo told the world that it is wrong for people to insinuate that the president is protecting herdsmen and Boko Haram groups", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515202908/https://guardian.ng/opinion/yemi-osinbajo-this-silence-is-deafening/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://guardian.ng/opinion/yemi-osinbajo-this-silence-is-deafening/" } ], "question": "What has Nigerian Vice President Yemi Osibanjo said about the Fulani Herdsmen killings?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "Did Vice President, Yemi Osibanjo say \"I plead to Nigerians Don’t Retaliate Fulani Herdsmen Killings, Pray For Them Instead; just as we the Federal Executive are praying hard now.\"" } ]

[ "Causal Claim", "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "There are 187 countries and territories (including a cruise ship) with confirmed COVID-19 cases.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://archive.ph/ZrrqG", "source_medium": "Web table", "source_url": "https://archive.ph/ZrrqG" } ], "question": "How many countries have COVID-19 confirmed cases?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "34 countries", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201223231056/https://www.viavisolutions.com/en-us/literature/state-5g-deployments-2020-posters-en.pdf", "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201223231056/https://www.viavisolutions.com/en-us/literature/state-5g-deployments-2020-posters-en.pdf" }, { "answer": "33 countries", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://archive.ph/HX825#selection-1143.10-1143.11", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://archive.ph/HX825#selection-1143.10-1143.11" } ], "question": "How many countries to date have 5G available?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The three South Korean carries, SK telecom, KT and LG Uplus, launched limited 5G commercial services in December 2018.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210116102728/https://www.rcrwireless.com/20190912/5g/how-south-korea-built-5g-and-what-its-learning", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210116102728/https://www.rcrwireless.com/20190912/5g/how-south-korea-built-5g-and-what-its-learning" } ], "question": "When was 5G first launched?" } ]

[ "Numerical Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "The United States.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201122203942/https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/APU0000709112?data_tool=XGtable", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201122203942/https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/APU0000709112?data_tool=XGtable" } ], "question": "Which country does the claim refer to?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The retail price for a gallon of milk averaged $3.27 in April, according to the latest data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s up 9.6% from the April 2019 mark ($2.98).", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201122203942/https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/APU0000709112?data_tool=XGtable", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201122203942/https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/APU0000709112?data_tool=XGtable" } ], "question": "Have milk prices been rising in the U.S?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "based on Class 1 fluid milk, the highest valued class of milk,Then in April, farmers were paid 5.6% higher than the year prior. May is the first month where 2020 was lower than that month in 2019", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230503043746/https://www.fb.org/market-intel/how-milk-is-priced-in-federal-milk-marketing-orders-a-primer", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.fb.org/market-intel/how-milk-is-priced-in-federal-milk-marketing-orders-a-primer" } ], "question": "Has the price paid for milk to U.S farmers went down?" } ]

[ "Numerical Claim", "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Numerical Comparison" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "The numbers were revised by National Center for Health Statistics, in their website they explain that the numbers lag weeks behind and data during that period is incomplete.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230512144125/https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/index.htm", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm" } ], "question": "Did CDC revise their Covid-19 death numbers?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "NCHS revised it's number from 60,000 to 37,000 on 1st May. However, on 2nd May CDC had more than 66,000 deaths attributed to Covid-19 based on real time measures.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210201040142/https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210201040142/https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html" } ], "question": "What was the difference between the old number and the revised number?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "It is important to note that it can take several weeks for death records to be submitted to National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), processed, coded, and tabulated. Therefore, the data shown on this page may be incomplete, and will likely not include all deaths that occurred during a given time period, especially for the more recent time periods. Death counts for earlier weeks are continually revised and may increase or decrease as new and updated death certificate data are received from the states by NCHS. COVID-19 death counts shown here may differ from other published sources, as data currently are lagged by an average of 1–2 weeks.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210131210207/https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210131210207/https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm" } ], "question": "Is there a lag in the COVID-19 death toll?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "39 countries had passed the threshold of 100 confirmed cases, with many more countries on the cusp by march 16th 2020.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230507054534/https://www.visualcapitalist.com/infection-trajectory-flattening-the-covid19-curve/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.visualcapitalist.com/infection-trajectory-flattening-the-covid19-curve/" } ], "question": "How many countries had reported Covid 19 cases by mid 2020?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "COVID-19 is a new strain of coronavirus that has not been previously identified in humans.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230501121817/https://coronavirus.dc.gov/page/what-covid-19", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://coronavirus.dc.gov/page/what-covid-19" } ], "question": "What is Covid 19?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Cough\nFever\nHeadache\nNew loss of taste or smell\nRepeated shaking with chills\nSore throat\nShortness of breath\nMuscle pain", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230501121817/https://coronavirus.dc.gov/page/what-covid-19", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://coronavirus.dc.gov/page/what-covid-19" } ], "question": "What are the symptoms of Covid 19?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "By April 11 2020 global death toll had reached 100.000", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230331232430/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/04/09/coronavirus-latest-news/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/04/09/coronavirus-latest-news/" } ], "question": "what was the global death toll for Covid 19 by mid 2020?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "rapid antigen test is done to check for the virus", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230507113159/https://www.healthywa.wa.gov.au/articles/a_e/coronavirus/covid19-testing", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.healthywa.wa.gov.au/Articles/A_E/Coronavirus/COVID19-testing" } ], "question": "what are the test done to confirm the presence of the coronavirus" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "No. When the claim was made in May 2020, only one employee had tested positive.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515203152/https://www.indiatoday.in/fact-check/story/fact-check-why-were-these-bank-employees-being-transferred-to-an-ambulance-1673882-2020-05-03", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.indiatoday.in/fact-check/story/fact-check-why-were-these-bank-employees-being-transferred-to-an-ambulance-1673882-2020-05-03" }, { "answer": "only one employee tested positive in May 2020.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515203152/https://www.indiatoday.in/fact-check/story/fact-check-why-were-these-bank-employees-being-transferred-to-an-ambulance-1673882-2020-05-03", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.indiatoday.in/fact-check/story/fact-check-why-were-these-bank-employees-being-transferred-to-an-ambulance-1673882-2020-05-03" } ], "question": "Did all employees of the Punjab National Bank branch at Loni in Ghaziabad, on the outskirts of Delhi, test positive for Covid-19 in May 2020?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Ghaziabad reported 66 cases of coronavirus infections. But among them, 44 patients recovered, and the district was then downgraded as orange zone.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200524000835/https://www.abplive.com/news/india/eight-housing-societies-opened-in-ghaziabad-1367841", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200524000835/https://www.abplive.com/news/india/eight-housing-societies-opened-in-ghaziabad-1367841" } ], "question": "how many cases of coronavirus was reported in Ghaziabad" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi, the apex body in India for the formulation, coordination and promotion of biomedical research, is one of the oldest medical research bodies in the world.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230418202817/https://www.icmr.gov.in/aboutus.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.icmr.gov.in/aboutus.html" } ], "question": "Who is the ICMR who supposedly posted this list?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "The media page has no postings of this list.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230419155253/https://www.icmr.gov.in/media.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.icmr.gov.in/media.html" } ], "question": "Is the list on the website of the ICMR's media page, where all press releases are posted ?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Protests continued on Thursday against Michigan's stay-at-home order, alongside similar protests in suburban New York and Washington, D.C. Other demonstrations were held this week in North Carolina and Rhode Island", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210810115750/https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-protest-social-distancing-1bc7fb5a-b94c-471e-adf2-c50bfad4f242.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210810115750/https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-protest-social-distancing-1bc7fb5a-b94c-471e-adf2-c50bfad4f242.html" } ], "question": "Has USA had anti-lockdown protests?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "There have been lockdown protests in several other countries including Lebanon, Iraq and India among others.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230503134830/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/coronavirus-protests-lebanon-india-iraq/2020/04/19/1581dde4-7e5f-11ea-84c2-0792d8591911_story.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/coronavirus-protests-lebanon-india-iraq/2020/04/19/1581dde4-7e5f-11ea-84c2-0792d8591911_story.html" } ], "question": "Have there been any lockdown protests in other countries outside of USA?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "There is no record of Dr Anthony Fauci being a current board member of the Clinton foundation.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210717203654/https://www.clintonfoundation.org/about/board-directors", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210717203654/https://www.clintonfoundation.org/about/board-directors" } ], "question": "Is U.S Dr Anthony Fauci on the Clinton foundation board of directors?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Fauci is not listed as a member of the board in any of the Clinton Foundation’s Form its Tax 990s from1998 to 2018, its most recent years available.", "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210513090025/https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/311580204", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210513090025/https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/311580204" } ], "question": "Has Dr Anthony Fauci ever sat on the Clinton foundation board of directors?" } ]

[ "Position Statement" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "\"It’s just incredibly important to have permanent inspectors general that are completely independent that will provide Congress and the American public transparency and that watchdog assignment — that responsibility for departments and agencies — so that we have awareness of what’s happening,\" Johnson said at a hearing on inspectors general that he chaired. \"It’s the only way we’re going to be able to improve the efficiency, the effectiveness, the accountability of government is to have that type of transparency.\"", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210125064421/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/05/18/hypocrisy-watch-republicans-who-championed-inspectors-general-under-obama-stand-by-trump-purges-them/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210125064421/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/05/18/hypocrisy-watch-republicans-who-championed-inspectors-general-under-obama-stand-by-trump-purges-them/" } ], "question": "What was Ron Johnson's position on this in 2015?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "\"I think their independence needs to remain within their agencies,\" Johnson said. \"I’m very mindful of the fact that inspectors general don’t work for Congress. They actually work for the administration. They are part of the executive branch. … They work and serve the president of the United States. … They serve at the president’s will.\"", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210308164445/https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/05/17/sotu-johnson-full.cnn", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210308164445/https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/05/17/sotu-johnson-full.cnn" } ], "question": "What was Ron Johnson's position on this in 2020?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "He changed his verdict When with democratic President,Johnson spoke out strongly and repeatedly about the need for independence, saying they shouldn’t compromise their work \"to appease the agency or the president.\" He specifically condemned the idea of retaliating against inspectors general for reports superiors didn’t like.With a Republican now in the Oval Office and removing several inspectors general for reasons many view as political, Johnson is singing a different tune. He talks about inspectors general serving \"at the president’s will,\" and how they \"work and serve the president of the United States.\"That’s a complete change in position, or as we call it, a Full Flop.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515203259/https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/may/29/ron-johnson/ron-johnson-inspector-general-independence-trump/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/may/29/ron-johnson/ron-johnson-inspector-general-independence-trump/" } ], "question": "Did Ron Johnson change his stance on the independence of Inspectors General when related to the President ?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "01/05/2020", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "Metadata", "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "When was this claim made?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Wednesday 29/04/2020", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515203427/https://www.aninews.in/news/national/general-news/1-person-booked-for-assaulting-police-team-in-mumbais-kurla20200502151715/", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.aninews.in/news/national/general-news/1-person-booked-for-assaulting-police-team-in-mumbais-kurla20200502151715/" } ], "question": "When did this event take place?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "A man has been booked for allegedly assaulting a junior police officer enforcing coronavirus-induced lockdown in Kurla in Central Mumbai on April 29, an official said on Saturday.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515203541/https://www.news18.com/news/india/man-booked-for-assaulting-police-sub-inspector-on-covid-duty-in-mumbai-2602531.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.news18.com/news/india/man-booked-for-assaulting-police-sub-inspector-on-covid-duty-in-mumbai-2602531.html" } ], "question": "What actually happened?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No. One person shouted at the police from a second floor building.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515203541/https://www.news18.com/news/india/man-booked-for-assaulting-police-sub-inspector-on-covid-duty-in-mumbai-2602531.html", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.news18.com/news/india/man-booked-for-assaulting-police-sub-inspector-on-covid-duty-in-mumbai-2602531.html" } ], "question": "Where multiple police officers assaulted by multiple people?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "They were transported using special trains", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200630202516/https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/never-talked-about-charging-migrant-workers-85-fare-borne-by-rlys-15-by-state-govts-centre/articleshow/75535190.cms", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200630202516/https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/never-talked-about-charging-migrant-workers-85-fare-borne-by-rlys-15-by-state-govts-centre/articleshow/75535190.cms" } ], "question": "How are migrants being transported back home" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Eighty-five per cent of the transportation cost is borne by the Railways, while states have to bear 15 per cent of the cost", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200630202516/https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/never-talked-about-charging-migrant-workers-85-fare-borne-by-rlys-15-by-state-govts-centre/articleshow/75535190.cms", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200630202516/https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/never-talked-about-charging-migrant-workers-85-fare-borne-by-rlys-15-by-state-govts-centre/articleshow/75535190.cms" } ], "question": "How are the fares paid for" } ]

[ "Numerical Claim", "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Numerical Comparison" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "There have been studies that have revealed that men are more likely to get more severe symptoms from COVID-19 disease and also more likely to die from complications of the disease. A new study corroborates these findings. The study titled, “Gender differences in patients with COVID-19: Focus on severity and mortality,” is published in the latest issue of the journal Frontiers in Public Health.\n\nWhat did the study find?\n\nThe study reveals that both men and women are equally at risk of getting infected with SARS-CoV-2, and men are more at risk of suffering the severe effects of COVID-19 disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 and also more at risk of dying of the infection. Older men with underlying diseases are more at risk because of their age, as well as their gender, say the researchers. They wrote, “Older age and a high number of comorbidities were associated with higher severity and mortality in patients with both COVID-19 and SARS.”", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515203652/https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200429/Men-are-twice-more-likely-to-die-of-COVID-19-than-women.aspx", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200429/Men-are-twice-more-likely-to-die-of-COVID-19-than-women.aspx" }, { "answer": "In Italy and China deaths of men are more than double those of women. In New York city men constitute about 61% of patients who die. Australia is shaping up to have similar results, though here it’s mostly in the 70-79 and 80-89 age groups.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515203725/https://theconversation.com/why-do-more-men-die-from-coronavirus-than-women-136038", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://theconversation.com/why-do-more-men-die-from-coronavirus-than-women-136038" } ], "question": "Are men more likely to die than women from COVID-19?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "One major variable in severity of COVID-19 is age. But this can’t explain the sex bias seen globally because the increased male fatality rate is the same in each age group from 30 to 90+. Women also live on average six years longer than men, so there are more elderly women than men in the vulnerable population.\n\nThe other major factor is the presence of chronic diseases, particularly heart disease, diabetes and cancer. These are all more common in men than women, which might account for some of the bias.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230515203725/https://theconversation.com/why-do-more-men-die-from-coronavirus-than-women-136038", "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://theconversation.com/why-do-more-men-die-from-coronavirus-than-women-136038" } ], "question": "Why are men more likely to die than women?" } ]