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11 checks for “The White House”
“When President Biden took office ... there was no [COVID-19] vaccine available.”
FactCheck.org says: When Joe Biden was sworn in as president, two COVID-19 vaccines had already been authorized and millions of people nationwide had been vaccinated against the disease.
“A video shows “Dems caught not wearing masks” at the White House.”
“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 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.
“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 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.”
“The White House blocked a plan that would have sent five reusable face masks to every household in early April.”
MediaWise says: Documents released through records request show that planning was being done to send masks to American households through the USPS and the White House Coronavirus Task Force. Reports from April, as well as new evidence …
“Former White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted that recent events like the George Floyd protests, the pandemic, the impeachment, and the Russia investigation "happened because Hillary [Clinton] lost.”
FactCheck.org says: Sarah Huckabee Sanders did not write or post the tweet. The tweet is actually from an unverified Twitter account that misspelled her name.