“No one has been hospitalized for” the omicron variant of COVID-19.”
What PolitiFact found
Paul made the claim in a reelection ad. Two studies published before the ad began running cited hundreds of omicron hospitalizations. Paul’s campaign took the ad down.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Rand Paul (U.S. senator, R-Ky.) made this claim around 5 January 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 8 January 2022, 3 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Rand Paul has 19 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 8 of them false or fake, 9 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/ads/library/?active_status=all&ad_type=political_and_issue_ads&c…
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- PolitiFact: False“The omicron variant of COVID-19 “came out” in 2021, but “the copyright on this book” about the variant is 2020.”