“At UNC 14% of students tested positive.”
What PolitiFact found
Murphy's figure was based on only 954 students who were tested, and those tests are likely to be skewed because UNC is only testing people who think they need it.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Chris Murphy (U.S. Senator from Connecticut) made this claim around 18 August 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 24 August 2020, 6 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Chris Murphy has 10 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 3 of them false or fake, 6 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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