“95% of over-the-counter pharmaceuticals" in the U.S. come from China.”
What PolitiFact found
This figure is out of scale with at least three other analyses. The other studies found China’s share of U.S. pharmaceutical ingredient imports range from about 20% down to the low single digits.
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In short
Vivek Ramaswamy (Republican presidential candidate) made this claim around 13 October 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 26 October 2023, 13 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Vivek Ramaswamy has 19 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 8 of them false or fake, 10 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- c-span.orghttps://www.c-span.org/video/?531055-1/republican-2024-presidential-candidates-address-na…
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