“On distributing COVID-19 vaccines: "[O]ur great military ... they’ll be able to take care of this locationally and bringing it where it has to go very, very quickly. They’re all mobilized. It’s been fully set up.”
What FactCheck.org found
The administration still has a lot of planning to do, and the military will have just a “complementary role to the traditional vaccine distribution networks,” as the HHS official told us.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (President of the United States) made this claim around 28 July 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 7 August 2020, 10 days later. Its rating was “Exaggerates”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-press-briefing-ju…
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