“On average, one person dies by suicide every 22 hours in West Virginia.”
Shelley Moore Capito
U.S. Senator, R-W.Va.. a Facebook post. Claim dated 8 Nov 2019.
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Shelley Moore Capito (U.S. Senator, R-W.Va.) made this claim around 8 November 2019. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 8 November 2019. Its rating was “True”.
Shelley Moore Capito has 6 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 4 misleading or mixed and 2 true.
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