“The Obama administration "stopped testing ... right in the middle" of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.”
What FactCheck.org found
Individual reporting of H1N1 cases was halted after a few months, but some testing did continue. Unlike with COVID-19, testing for H1N1, which is far less deadly, did not play much of a role in controlling viral spread.
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In short
Donald Trump (President) made this claim around 13 July 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 16 July 2020, 3 days later. Its rating was “Misleading”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-roundtable-stakeh…
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Related checks
- PolitiFact: Pants on Fire“If we stopped testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any.”