“They do say that [children] don’t transmit very easily, and a lot of people are saying they don’t transmit. They don’t bring it home with them. They don’t catch it easily; they don’t bring it home easily.”
What Washington Post found
Trump is echoing a claim made by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, which was based on a misinterpretation of the German report that did not apply to conditions in the United States.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (President) made this claim around 22 July 2020. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 23 July 2020, 1 day later. Its rating was “Four Pinocchios”.
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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Related checks
- PolitiFact: Not for older students“Students "don’t catch it easily; they don’t bring it home easily.”