“His chief of staff last week said, ‘We’re going to do nothing about the virus. It’s here.’”
What FactCheck.org found
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows actually said, “We are not going to control the pandemic. We are going to control the fact that we get vaccines, therapeutics and other mitigation areas.”
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (Democratic presidential nominee) made this claim around 2 November 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 3 November 2020, 1 day later. Its rating was “Exaggerates”.
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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