“Five veterinary labs have their CLIA certification to officially test human patients. There are a lot of labs who are doing surveillance testing that don't need the CLIA certification.”
Brett Giroir
Health and Human Services assistant secretary. Claim dated 26 Jul 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly True
What PolitiFact found
Giroir was correct in saying there are some veterinary labs helping out with COVID testing.
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In short
Brett Giroir (Health and Human Services assistant secretary) made this claim around 26 July 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 4 August 2020, 9 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Brett Giroir has 3 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- transcripts.cnn.comhttp://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2007/26/sotu.01.html
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