“Although intuitively I think it probably seemed like social distancing would be necessary, there was no real scientific basis for believing that, since it had never been studied.”
Laura Ingraham
Fox News host. on her TV show. Claim dated 4 May 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
In short
Laura Ingraham (Fox News host) made this claim around 4 May 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 6 May 2020, 2 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Laura Ingraham has 5 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 3 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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