“We are 25% of the [COVID-19] cases and the deaths, 25%. We have the worst record of any country in the world.”
What FactCheck.org found
While the U.S. has the most confirmed cases and deaths by a wide margin, it does not have the most in either category on a per-capita basis.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Nancy Pelosi (Speaker of the House) made this claim around 28 June 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 30 June 2020, 2 days later. Its rating was “Not the Whole Story”.
Nancy Pelosi has 17 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 4 of them false or fake, 11 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
Where the claim appeared
- abcnews.go.comhttps://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-28-20-house-speaker-nancy-pelosi/story?id…
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