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11 checks for “The White House”

Checked by Deutsche Welle20 May 2025United StatesHealth
Dr. Steven Quay, Physician-Scientist & Author

“Prostate cancer is the easiest cancer to diagnose when it first starts and to watch it progress to bone metastases. […] For even with the most aggressive form, it is a 5-7 year journey without treatment before it becomes metastatic. [...] It is highly likely he was carrying a diagnosis of prostate cancer throughout his White House tenure and the American people were uninformed.”

Deutsche Welle rated this: Unproven
Checked by PolitiFact27 Jan 2021United StatesHealth
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 FactCheck.org16 Oct 2020United StatesHealth
Joe Biden, Democratic presidential nominee

“We had set up in our administration a pandemic office within the White House. There were 44 people on the ground [in China]. ... All those 44 people came home, never got replaced.”

FactCheck.org rated this: False

FactCheck.org says: Reuters, citing CDC documents, wrote that CDC’s Beijing office “has shrunk to around 14 staffers, down from approximately 47 people since President Donald Trump took office in January 2017.”