“Columbia University "pointed out that if [Trump] had listened to me and others and acted just one week earlier to deal with this virus, there’d be 36,000 fewer people dead.”
What FactCheck.org found
Biden falsely suggested that he called for implementing nationwide social distancing restrictions prior to March 8, which Columbia University researchers said could have prevented nearly 36,000 U.S. death.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (Democratic candidate for president) made this claim around 22 May 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 27 May 2020, 5 days later. Its rating was “Distorts the Facts”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOIFs_SryHI
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