“The University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation's revised model projecting 134,000 COVID-19 deaths by August “assumes no mitigation.”
What FactCheck.org found
The IHME model reflects some relaxation of policies as states begin to reopen, but is still trying to capture the mitigation efforts that remain.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (President of the United States) made this claim around 5 May 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 6 May 2020, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
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-marine-one-depart…
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