“He [President Donald Trump] did not move on making sure that we dealt with vaccinating the American public. We ended up losing over a million people dead — a million people.”
Joe Biden
U.S. president. remarks during a speech to a conference of the National Association of Counties. Claim dated 12 Feb 2024.
Washington Post rated thisMisleading
What Washington Post found
More covid death took place under Biden than Trump
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (U.S. president) made this claim around 12 February 2024. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 22 February 2024, 10 days later. Its rating was “Misleading”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
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