“Now, 50% of all of America, more than any other country, is fully vaccinated.”
What PolitiFact found
The percentage of Americans who are fully vaccinated is 40%, not 50%, and five other countries have higher rates for full vaccination than the United States does.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (president) made this claim around 27 May 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 28 May 2021, 1 day later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
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.
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