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|Plaintiff verdict=No
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|Filed by=User:Frank
|Case ID=AfeGaj3jbAafEga0cjBa
|Lie=Biden and Covid
|Topic=Factual Lie
|Accusation=Corona virus cases have dropped, but the reason is probably not due to President Biden's policies. As the omicron variant runs its course, virtually every country in the world has recently experienced a steep decline in COVID-19 deaths. In fact, since the day of Biden’s inauguration, the seven-day rolling average of daily deaths per 100,000 residents worldwide has dropped 89.4%, which suggests Biden’s policy is not somehow unique. Experts say it is the disease, the emergence of variants, the rollout of vaccines and immunity gained from prior infection that are primarily responsible for the peaks and valleys in the number of deaths worldwide since COVID-19 emerged.

Biden also launched this talking point during a lull in COVID-19 deaths, glossing over the fact that there have been two major waves of COVID-19 — from the highly transmissible delta and omicron variants — which caused large spikes in the number of deaths during Biden’s presidency.

Upon taking office in January 2021, Biden initiated an effort to encourage Americans to get one of the newly authorized COVID-19 vaccines. He has promoted effective new treatments, and he has been a consistent advocate for masking in appropriate situations. Experts say those are all positive things, but Biden takes too much credit when he says his policies are responsible for a 90% drop in COVID-19 deaths, as he has done repeatedly.

“My approach has brought down COVID deaths by 90%,” Biden boasted on Twitter on June 14.

Biden repeated it in a speech the same day, saying the administration “brought down COVID deaths by 90%.”

“The vaccines, treatments and other tools my administration has made widely available are protecting the American people from serious illness, keeping them out of the hospital, and bringing down daily deaths due to COVID-19 by 90%,” Biden said on June 17.
|Locations=https://www.factcheck.org/2022/06/biden-claims-too-much-credit-for-decline-in-covid-19-deaths/
|Markup=<i>President Joe Biden has repeatedly boasted </i><b>that his “approach has brought down COVID deaths by 90%.”</b>
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