“Our excess mortality rate has been 42 percent less than Europe.”
What Washington Post found
The United States has one of the highest rates of covid-19 deaths per 100,000 people in the world and one of the highest rates of excess all-cause mortality
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (President) made this claim around 27 October 2020. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 29 October 2020, 2 days later. Its rating was “Four Pinocchios”.
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.
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