- NC Politifact called out Governor Cooper for spreading false information about COVID-19 deaths.
- Cooper accomplished almost nothing during his first term and is running for reelection on his failed COVID-19 response because he has nothing else to run on despite his three decades in office.
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Key excerpts from the Fact Check:
- "In some of those other states, some of their deaths can be attributable to the fact that they were having a hard time getting an ICU bed or a ventilator to a patient," Cooper said during a press conference on Aug. 13.
- But there's little documentation of COVID-19 patients dying specifically because they couldn't access a ventilator or ICU bed.
- Politifact investigated the issue of ventilator access, finding in late April that it hadn't become a nationwide problem health experts and medical professionals feared.
- Officials from 30 states told Politifact that they weren't aware of any cases where their hospitals couldn't provide ventilators to COVID-19 patients.
- The American Hospital Association, along with experts who have tracked resource availability during the pandemic, say they're unaware of any specific cases where someone died specifically because they couldn't access a ventilator or ICU bed.
- Cooper didn't cite, and Politifact couldn't find enough evidence to support the claim.
- It is beneath the office of the Governor to resort to spreading false information about the pandemic to juice his reelection effort.
- Cooper's decisions to lie about the drivers of COVID-19 deaths show that he's using political science to guide his COVID-19 response in a vain attempt to help his reelection, and North Carolinians are paying the price for his public relations stunts.
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