“Ten thousand people have recently died. 9,950 of them, thereabouts, are people who hadn’t been vaccinated.”
Joe Biden
president. a CNN town hall. Claim dated 21 Jul 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly True
What PolitiFact found
Biden is citing a figure that has been offered publicly on at least two occasions by the director of the CDC, Dr. Rochelle Walensky.
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In short
Joe Biden (president) made this claim around 21 July 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 22 July 2021, 1 day later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
Where the claim appeared
- cincinnati.comhttps://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2021/07/21/joe-biden-cnn-town-hall-transcr…
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