“We also dealt with the whole pandemic that was in Africa. Kept it under control by doing what I urged the president to do months ago, he’s doing now, get the United States military in building hospitals, et cetera, tent hospitals and the like.”
What Washington Post found
Biden hadn’t raised building hospitals “months ago.” He first mentioned doing so March 12 during his speech on the coronavirus.
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In short
Joe Biden (Former vice president) made this claim around 7 April 2020. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 17 April 2020, 10 days later. Its rating was “Two Pinocchios”.
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.
Where the claim appeared
- nbcphiladelphia.comhttps://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/coronavirus/joe-biden-speaks-on-how-hed-handle-the-c…
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