“Five million Americans infected by COVID-19. More than 170,000 Americans have died. By far the worst performance of any nation on Earth.”
What FactCheck.org found
While that’s true based on the raw totals of COVID-19 cases and deaths, the U.S. is not the worst when adjusted for population or on other metrics.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (Democratic presidential nominee) made this claim around 20 August 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 21 August 2020, 1 day later. Its rating was “Not Worst Per Capita”.
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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