Lie September 10, 2020 · Press conference · Coronavirus

“The swine flu was a disaster, you remember, when -- not nearly as deadly, not -- not the same world. But when Joe Biden was Vice President, his failed approach to the swine flu was disastrous. He called it -- he called it N1H1; it's actually H1N1.”

Said
September 10, 2020
Where
News conference
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 23755)

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