The candidates repeated talking points from the stump and added some new twists on the facts.
Issues: China
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FactChecking the Vice Presidential Debate
FactChecking the First Trump-Biden Debate
China Didn’t Stop Virus ‘Cold’ Outside Wuhan
In remarks about SARS-CoV-2, President Trump wrongly said China “stopped it cold” from spreading from Wuhan to other parts of China “but they didn’t stop it cold from coming to the United States … and the rest of the world.” It did spread in China beyond Wuhan, but China also took extreme measures to slow the spread of the disease that the U.S. did not.