“The coronavirus is 'partially seasonal”
Leo Varadkar
Tánaiste. Claim dated 25 Jan 2021.
TheJournal.ie rated thisUnproven
What TheJournal.ie found
Leo Varadkar’s “partially seasonal” claim about the coronavirus may turn out to be true, but it is currently too soon to say the virus is seasonal and we don’t know how it will react in the future as more people are vaccinated and new strains emerge
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Leo Varadkar (Tánaiste) made this claim around 25 January 2021. TheJournal.ie (Ireland) looked into it and published its finding on 30 January 2021, 5 days later. Its rating was “Unproven”.
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