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Checked by PolitiFact23 Apr 2020United StatesHealth
Marco Rubio, U.S. Senator, R-Fla.

“Face masks being manufactured in China, for example, went to domestic consumption and their own fight against the virus” while the U.S. was “largely unable to import supplies from China.”

PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False

PolitiFact says: China did have a greater need for its domestically manufactured masks in February as the virus ravaged the country, but Rubio greatly overstates the situation. Imports dropped, but they did continue.