“For younger people, seasonal flu is “in many cases” a deadlier virus than COVID-19”
Ron Johnson
U.S. Senator. Radio interview. Claim dated 13 Aug 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly True
In short
Ron Johnson (U.S. Senator) made this claim around 13 August 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 8 September 2020, 26 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Ron Johnson has 43 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 17 of them false or fake, 21 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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