“All evidence points to the fact that our kids are 17 times more likely to have ill effects from the seasonal flu than they are from the coronavirus.”
What PolitiFact found
Forest cherry-picked the stat and then presented it as a medical consensus. Experts say it's difficult to compare the diseases.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Dan Forest (North Carolina Lt. Governor) made this claim around 2 September 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 15 September 2020, 13 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Dan Forest has 3 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSAVexI6_qw
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