“The (COVID-19) cases are going up, but it's because the testing is going up.”
Chris Kapenga
Wisconsin state senator, Republican. a TV interview. Claim dated 29 Jun 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
Testing rates were dropping — not rising — as COVID-19 cases rose in late June.
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In short
Chris Kapenga (Wisconsin state senator, Republican) made this claim around 29 June 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 2 July 2020, 3 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Chris Kapenga has 5 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 2 true.
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