“On potential deaths: "Those models that you're mentioning are talking about without mitigation.”
What PolitiFact found
"We’ve never put forward a forecast that included no mitigation," the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation spokeswoman said.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (U.S. president) made this claim around 5 May 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 6 May 2020, 1 day later. Its rating was “Mitigation included”.
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
- abcnews.go.comhttps://abcnews.go.com/Politics/transcript-abc-news-anchor-david-muir-interviews-presiden…
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