“We all know China created COVID.”
What PolitiFact found
There is no evidence that China “created” the virus. There is no scientific consensus on how the virus originated, but researchers believe it could have originated naturally or from an accident in a lab.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Dave McCormick (2022 Republican candidate for Pennsylvania U.S. Senate seat) made this claim around 31 January 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 11 February 2022, 11 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Dave McCormick has 7 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 5 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
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