“According to a recent CDC report, "almost everyone — 85% — who got the coronavirus in July was wearing a mask, and they were infected anyway. So clearly (wearing a mask) doesn’t work the way they tell us it works.”
Tucker Carlson
Fox News host. in a TV segment. Claim dated 13 Oct 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
In short
Tucker Carlson (Fox News host) made this claim around 13 October 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 15 October 2020, 2 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Tucker Carlson has 48 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 23 of them false or fake, 14 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=663800497903990
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