Fact check: Post detailing COVID deaths under Biden ignores improving trend

The post by Breitbart News, a self-described conservative news website, links to an April 28 article written by the same organization.

20 and April 28, Biden’s first 14 weeks in office, the CDC reported 156,096 new COVID-19 deaths.

The exact number of COVID-19 deaths is almost impossible to track because of a lack of precision when recording them, according to William Schaffner, an infectious diseases professor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Considering the U.S.

But that’s not to say Biden deserves all the credit for the improving trend since January.

But more notably, it’s not reasonable to discuss the number of deaths since Biden started without considering the state of the pandemic and the trends up to that point.

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