“I, all the way back in January, warned (President Trump that) this pandemic was coming. I talked about what we needed to do.”
What PolitiFact found
Biden expressed concern about the coronavirus weeks before Trump did, and he recommended the Obama approach on Ebola, including international cooperation and the use of sound science, in January.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (Democratic presidential candidate) made this claim around 20 July 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 22 July 2020, 2 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
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.
This check was done by PolitiFact, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.