“U.S. is “really not doing (COVID-19) reporting right” because deaths are being improperly counted and hospitals have an “incentive” to pad stats.”
What PolitiFact found
Decisions on how to classify a given death are made by local doctors or coroners, but based on World Health Organization guidelines followed by the U.S. and nearly every other country.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (U.S. President) made this claim around 24 October 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 27 October 2020, 3 days 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
- YouTube videohttps://youtu.be/uaxwbP8fafo?t=1780
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