Fact check: White House tweet falsely claims 'there was no vaccine available' when Biden took office
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By Daniel Dale, CNN The official White House Twitter account tweeted Thursday about the sharp decline in the unemployment rate during President Joe Biden‘s tenure — but the tweet began with a false claim about Covid-19 vaccinations.
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By Daniel Dale, CNN The official White House Twitter account tweeted Thursday about the sharp decline in the unemployment rate during President Joe Biden‘s tenure — but the tweet began with a false claim about Covid-19 vaccinations.
When Joe Biden was sworn in as president, two COVID-19 vaccines had already been authorized and millions of people nationwide had been vaccinated against the disease. But in a May 12 tweet touting economic progress made under Biden, the White House falsely claimed that "there was no vaccine availabl…
They must think the average American’s memory is as bad as Joe’s is nowadays. When President Biden took office, millions were unemployed and there was no vaccine available. In the last 15...
The official White House Twitter account claimed that when President Joe Biden "took office," there was “no vaccine” for COVID-19 available. Twitter users slammed that as misinformation.
The White House is claiming there was no COVID vaccine available when President Joe Biden took office, a brazen falsehood designed to give Biden more credit than he deserves since he can’t defend his own record.
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