“When President Biden took office … there was no vaccine available.”
What PolitiFact found
A vaccine did exist before Biden took office; more than 20 million shots were administered while Trump was president. But when Biden took office, the vaccine was not “widely available.”
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (president) made this claim around 12 May 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 16 May 2022, 4 days later. Its rating was “False”.
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.
One other organisation checked what looks like the same claim. Their ratings are listed below.
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