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Checked by PolitiFact10 Nov 2021United States Health

Ron Klain, White House chief of staff

“The Biden administration inherited gains of “50,000 jobs a month. We're now finally back to 500,000 jobs a month. We inherited a country where 4,000 people a day were dying from Covid. That's now down 75%.”

PolitiFact rated this: Half True

PolitiFact says: The Biden administration can trumpet improvements in both employment and the coronavirus pandemic, but Klain’s numbers are off.

Checked by PolitiFact27 Jan 2021United States Health

Ron Klain, chief of staff to President Joe Biden

“The process to distribute the vaccine, particularly outside of nursing homes and hospitals out into the community as a whole, did not really exist when we came into the White House.”

PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False

PolitiFact says: The Trump administration planned to get the vaccines developed and then send them to locations chosen by states. States wrote their own plans, and they were responsible for setting up places to get vaccines into arms.

Checked by Washington Post24 Mar 2020United States Health

Ron Klain, Biden campaign adviser

“Look no further than Dr. Nancy Messonnier, a career official at the Centers for Disease Control who was the first to raise the alarm. … Starting the next day, Dr. Messonnier no longer appeared at public briefings of the White House coronavirus task force.”

Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios