“Gov. Andrew Cuomo “was simply saying if we can share 20 percent of your excess, your non-used ventilators, to help people in other parts of the state on a voluntary basis, that would be great. Of course, there was a reaction to that, which was not positive.”
Kathy Hochul
Lieutenant Governor. in a television interview. Claim dated 8 Apr 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisPants on Fire
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Kathy Hochul (Lieutenant Governor) made this claim around 8 April 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 14 April 2020, 6 days later. Its rating was “Pants on Fire”.
Kathy Hochul has 7 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 4 misleading or mixed and 2 true.
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