“Georgia has “almost 100,000 more (COVID-19) cases, almost twice as many deaths and almost 600 more nursing home deaths than North Carolina.”
Roy Cooper
North Carolina Governor. In a debate. Claim dated 14 Oct 2020.
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Roy Cooper (North Carolina Governor) made this claim around 14 October 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 23 October 2020, 9 days later. Its rating was “True”.
Roy Cooper has 3 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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