“Says “Dr. Fauci lied about masks in March.”
What PolitiFact found
In the early days of the pandemic, every US agency dismissed the protective gains of masks, and urged people to avoid using the limited supply of high-quality masks needed by health care workers.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Marco Rubio (Republican senator from Florida) made this claim around 27 December 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 28 December 2020, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
Marco Rubio has 16 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 6 of them false or fake, 7 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
Where the claim appeared
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