“Only 6% of the people actually died from COVID.” The others “died from other reasons.”
What PolitiFact found
The National Center for Health Statistics told us that COVID-19 was responsible for nearly all of the deaths involving the virus.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (President) made this claim around 1 September 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 3 September 2020, 2 days later. Its rating was “Pants on Fire”.
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
- YouTube videohttps://youtu.be/YI_XUG5u3EE?t=947
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