“Generally the deaths are still pretty flat because we've flattened the curve.”
Ron Johnson
U.S. Senator, R-Wisconsin. a presentation. Claim dated 22 Oct 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly False
What PolitiFact found
Deaths in Wisconsin are at an all-time high, even if nationally they have been more stable.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Ron Johnson (U.S. Senator, R-Wisconsin) made this claim around 22 October 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 24 October 2020, 2 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
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.
Where the claim appeared
- jsonline.comhttps://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2020/10/21/ron-johnson-says-weve-flattened-c…
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