“People have lost faith in the ability of the vaccine to work. Already, the numbers are really staggeringly low.”
What PolitiFact found
Polls show lower-than-ideal numbers of Americans who are willing to take a coronavirus vaccine. But there's still time for those numbers to rise as regulators approve vaccines and the initial rollout proceeds.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (President-elect) made this claim around 3 December 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 8 December 2020, 5 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
Where the claim appeared
- transcripts.cnn.comhttp://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2012/03/se.01.html
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