“When you talk about the peer-reviewed studies of masks, there was one done in Denmark, showed that it didn’t work. When you look at all of Sweden — 1.8 million children have not been wearing masks for the last two years, they’ve had zero covid deaths.”
Rand Paul
U.S. Senator (R-Ky.). in a Fox News interview. Claim dated 29 Nov 2021.
Washington Post rated thisFour Pinocchios
In short
Rand Paul (U.S. Senator (R-Ky.)) made this claim around 29 November 2021. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 2 December 2021, 3 days later. Its rating was “Four Pinocchios”.
Rand Paul has 19 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 8 of them false or fake, 9 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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