“The (corona)virus just isn’t nearly as deadly as we thought it was.”
Tucker Carlson
Fox News talk show host. in a TV segment. Claim dated 27 Apr 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly False
In short
Tucker Carlson (Fox News talk show host) made this claim around 27 April 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 4 May 2020, 7 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Tucker Carlson has 48 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 23 of them false or fake, 14 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBLXdKB-PjI
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