“Now with the COVID-19 … more people are dependent on drugs or alcohol.”
What PolitiFact found
West Virginia data shows increases in emergency room visits due to overdoses in June, July and August of 2020 compared with the same months in 2019, mirroring national patterns.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Manchin (U.S. Senator, D-W.Va.) made this claim around 19 August 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 28 October 2020, 70 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Joe Manchin has 10 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 7 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
Where the claim appeared
- washingtonexaminer.comhttps://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-epidemic-raging-within-the-pandemic-opioid…
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