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Biden Falsely Claims: ‘We Didn’t Have’ A Vaccine ‘When We Came Into Office’

This report has been updated to include reaction from left-wing fact-checkers who rushed in to defend Biden.

Ryan Saavedra
Biden Falsely Claims: ‘We Didn’t Have’ A Vaccine ‘When We Came Into Office’
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President Joe Biden falsely claimed during a CNN town hall on Tuesday night that his administration did not have a vaccine to work with when he came into office, saying, “It’s one thing to have the vaccine, which we didn’t have when we came into office, but a vaccinator, how do you get the vaccine into someone’s arm?”

“What we did, we got into office and found out the supply, there was no backlog, I mean, there was nothing in the refrigerator, figuratively and literally speaking,” Biden claimed. “And there are 10 million doses a day that were available. We’ve upped that in the first three weeks that we were in office to significantly more than that, we’ve moved out, went to the Pfizer and Moderna and said, can you produce more vaccine and more rapidly? And not only agree to go from 200 to 400, then they agreed to go to 600 million doses.”

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