“Florida's coronavirus outbreak "is mostly tied to New York City travel into the three Southern Florida (counties).”
What PolitiFact found
The available data suggests that transmission has become well established in Florida with travel playing a minimal role, experts said.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Ron DeSantis (Florida governor) made this claim around 28 April 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 5 May 2020, 7 days later. Its rating was “Unproven with state data”.
Ron DeSantis has 64 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 17 of them false or fake, 38 misleading or mixed and 2 true.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-meeting-governor-…
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