“Nearly 800 million opioid pills were shipped to WV, amounting to 433 pills for every man, woman, and child in the state.”
What PolitiFact found
A state report put the number of pills flowing into West Virginia at more than 780 million. Using 2010 Census data, that works out to 421 pills for every resident of West Virginia.
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In short
David McKinley (U.S. Representative, R-W.Va.) made this claim around 9 September 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 15 October 2020, 36 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
David McKinley has 3 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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