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“The Trump Administration promised 27 million tests by the end of March. As of now, only 4 million have been completed.”
Joe Biden former Vice President. Claim dated 21 Apr 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisHalf True

What PolitiFact found

Biden conflated two different metrics: the number of projected available tests in the market and the number of people in the U.S. actually tested.

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In short

Joe Biden (former Vice President) made this claim around 21 April 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 23 April 2020, 2 days later. Its rating was “Half 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.

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