“Models projecting COVID-19 deaths “are talking about without mitigation.”
What PolitiFact found
A draft federal government report drawing on preliminary work from Johns Hopkins projected 3,000 deaths per day by June 1. A University of Washington model predicts 134,000 deaths by early August. That model takes into a
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (President) made this claim around 5 May 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 6 May 2020, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
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