Lie March 13, 2020 · Social post · Coronavirus

“Their response to H1N1 Swine Flu was a full scale disaster, with thousands dying, and nothing meaningful done to fix the testing problem, until now.”

Said
March 13, 2020
Where
Twitter (Twitter)
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Coronavirus
Repeated
62 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 17678)

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