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This Tuesday, Vice President Mike Pencepenned an op-edin The Wall Street Journal where he claimed that alarm bells about a second wave of coronavirus are overblown that the Trump administration is winning the fight against the ongoing health crisis. But this Friday, the Journal ran a fact check on the very op-ed that itself published, saying that Pence overstated the amount of coronavirus-related medical equipment distributed by a Trump administration program on multiple occasions, according to public data from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

In his article, Pence praisedProject Airbridge, a public-private partnership championed by Jared Kushner, writing that Project Airbridge delivered more than 143 million N95 masks, 598 million surgical and procedural masks, 20 million eye and face shields, 265 million gowns and coveralls and 14 billion gloves for the fight against coronavirus.

But according to WSJ, thats not accurate.

According to FEMA data,through June 18 the program had delivered1.5 million N95 masks, 113.4 million surgical masks, 2.5 million face shields, 50.9 million gowns, 1.4 million coveralls and 937 million gloves, WSJs Rebecca Ballhaus writes. The total number of those supplies is about 7%or one-thirteenthof the numbers cited in Mr. Pences article.

Read the full fact check over atThe Wall Street Journal.

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Wall Street Journal debunks false claims Mike Pence pushed in the same paper days before - AlterNet