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“Says “no one under the age of 20 has died of the coronavirus. We still don’t know whether children can get it and transmit it to others.”
John Cornyn U.S. Senator from Texas. Claim dated 9 Jul 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse

In short

John Cornyn (U.S. Senator from Texas) made this claim around 9 July 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 17 July 2020, 8 days later. Its rating was “False”.

John Cornyn has 4 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 3 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 0 true.

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