“Covid left its scars, like the spike in violent crime in 2020 — the first year of the pandemic.”
Joe Biden
U.S. president. in the State of the Union address. Claim dated 7 Feb 2023.
Washington Post rated thisNot the whole story
What Washington Post found
Biden suggested covid led to a spike in violence but there are other factors
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (U.S. president) made this claim around 7 February 2023. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 15 February 2023, 8 days later. Its rating was “Not the whole story”.
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.
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