“Antibody tests will "support our efforts to get Americans back to work by showing us who might have developed the wonderful, beautiful immunity" to the novel coronavirus.”
What FactCheck.org found
The tests do have the potential to relay valuable information about who might already have immunity and how widely COVID-19 has spread. But so far, the tests are not widely available and many are unreliable.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (President of the United States) made this claim around 17 April 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 24 April 2020, 7 days later. Its rating was “We Explain the Science”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pe…
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