The fact-checking of President Biden’s comments during CNN City Hall

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Vaccinations, another round of stimulus payments and students re-entering the classroom.

These were just some of the topics that President Joe Biden addressed as president in his first town hall.

He made some important claims, so Lauren Verno, a News4Jax consumer researcher, put it through the News4Jax Trust Index.

After going through the full transcript of President Biden’s City Hall, we found two demands we want to make through the Trust Index.

President Biden began the evening with a new promise about the vaccine: 400 million doses of Pfizer and Modern vaccines are available to anyone who wants them by the end of May, and 600 million by mid-summer.

“We now have more than 600 million doses by the end of July, enough to vaccinate every American,” Biden said.

This is our first claim to the Trust Index.

Can the president promise 600 million doses by the end of July?

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To ensure that many doses started at the Trump administration. Before President Trump left office, he received 200 million doses of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.

When President Biden officially took office last month, he used the National Defense Act to obtain the necessary equipment to manufacture and distribute more vaccines, which led to his government securing another 400 million doses, which by the end of July the businesses are guaranteed. .

So we are going to mark the statement as true on the Trust Index.

Our next claim comes in the wake of a mother and her 8-year-old daughter asking about children getting the vaccine.

“The evidence so far is that children probably do not get the most COVID, number one,” Biden said.

According to the CDC, fewer children are sick with COVID-19 compared to adults. However, there were more than two million confirmed cases in children under 17.

In the Trust index we are going to mark the statement as ‘Be careful’.

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Although children are less likely to contract the virus, millions of cases have been reported.

Biden answered the question and said:

‘Number two, you probably will not be exposed to anything and spread it to mom or dad. And it is unlikely that mom and dad can spread it to you too. ‘

Regarding children and adults who spread the virus, the CDC says: ‘Children can be infected with the virus that causes COVID-19, can get sick from COVID-19 and can spread the virus that causes COVID-19 to others. Children, such as adults, who have COVID-19 but have no symptoms (“asymptomatic”), can still spread the virus to others. ”

In the Trust Index, we will therefore indicate the specific claim that children and parents cannot spread the virus among themselves, according to the CDC.

Much of what the president outlined last night involved goals for his government. Go to Newsweek.com to read the full transcript of City Hall.