“President Obama set up anti-pandemic programs in 47 vulnerable countries, as a way to protect against something just like Coronavirus breaking out across the world. Experts begged Trump to keep them open. He closed 37 of them.”
Sen. Chris Murphy
Connecticut Democrat. Twitter. Claim dated 27 Feb 2020.
FactCheck.org rated thisFalse
In short
Sen. Chris Murphy (Connecticut Democrat) made this claim around 27 February 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 12 March 2020, 14 days later. Its rating was “False”.
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