Lie March 24, 2020 · Press conference · Coronavirus

“We kept hearing about South Korea. … In eight days, we're doing more testing than they've done in eight weeks. That's a tremendous turn.”

Said
March 24, 2020
Where
News conference
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Coronavirus
Repeated
6 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 18526)

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