“As of June 23, the COVID-19 death rate is “way down.”
What PolitiFact found
The number of coronavirus deaths has remained substantial, at a bit below 600 per day by mid-to-late June, but that’s more than two-thirds lower than the peak of about 2,000 daily deaths in late April.
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In short
Donald Trump (president) made this claim around 23 June 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 24 June 2020, 1 day later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
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.
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