“Says Wisconsin measures have "prevented the death of at least 300 Wisconsinites, and perhaps as many as 1,400 lives.”
What PolitiFact found
This claim lines up with projections made by DHS, and experts say it’s in line with what other models projected as well. But Evers neglects to describe this as an estimate or projection.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Tony Evers (Wisconsin governor, Democrat) made this claim around 21 April 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 1 May 2020, 10 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Tony Evers has 23 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 14 misleading or mixed and 7 true.
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