“Schoolchildren actually aren’t vectors" for COVID-19”
What PolitiFact found
There is limited research on COVID-19 and schoolchildren so far. It is difficult to assess how much children may have spread the virus since schools shut down early in the pandemic.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Ron DeSantis (Florida's governor) made this claim around 11 July 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 16 July 2020, 5 days later. Its rating was “Not settled science”.
Ron DeSantis has 64 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 17 of them false or fake, 38 misleading or mixed and 2 true.
Where the claim appeared
- c-span.orghttps://www.c-span.org/video/?473818-1/florida-governor-desantis-coronavirus-news-confere…
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