Fact Check: The White House Corrects Itself After False Claim About Vaccine

It was not the first time that the Biden administration made the claim.

By Khaya Himmelman

May 15, 2022

At 5:45 p.m. on Thursday, the official White House Twitter account published a tweet claiming that there was no vaccine when President Joe Biden came into office.

When President Biden took office, millions were unemployed and there was no vaccine available.

In the last 15 months, the economy has created 8.3M jobs and the unemployment rate stands at 3.6% — the fastest decline in unemployment to start a President's term ever recorded.
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 12, 2022

The tweet has quickly gone viral, and has been liked close to 10,000 times and retweeted almost 5,000 times. But the claim is false.

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