“We’ve still had more deaths to the flu this year than we've had COVID-19.”
What PolitiFact found
He compared diseases that started at different times, cherry-picked the worst-case US estimate, and ignored state numbers that don't support his claim.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Dan Forest (North Carolina Lt. Governor) made this claim around 7 May 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 7 May 2020. Its rating was “False”.
Dan Forest has 3 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
Where the claim appeared
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