President Donald Trump falsely claimed that his administration was not initially able to meet the increasing demand for ventilators to treat COVID-19 patients because “we weren’t left ventilators by a previous administration.”
Stories by D'Angelo Gore
Staff Writer, FactCheck.org
An April Filled with Repeats
Trump’s COVID-19 Testing Claim Is Way Off
FactChecking Ad About Donating ‘Our Masks and Supplies’ to China
Trump’s Inaccurate COVID-19 Death Rate Comparison
FactChecking Trump’s Attack on the WHO
Trump Falsely Claims He Inherited ‘Empty’ Stockpile
Trump’s Premature Claim about Ventilator Production
Trump’s Suspect Spanish Flu Claims
President Donald Trump recently said “close to 100 million people died” from the 1918 Spanish flu, and that “if you got it you had a 50/50 chance, or very close, of dying.” But 100 million is a high-end estimate of global deaths from that influenza pandemic, and we found no evidence the case fatality rate for those who had it was 50%.