Fact Check: White House Makes False Claim COVID Vaccine Wasn’t Available Until Biden

Then-President-elect Joe Biden watches as a nurse fills a syringe with a COVID-19 vaccine, at the Christiana Care campus in Newark, Del., on Dec. 21, 2020. Alex Edelman/AFP via Getty Images

The Biden administration made an erroneous statement on the White House Twitter account on Thursday, which prompted fact-checks.

“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 [percent] — the fastest decline in unemployment to start a President’s term ever recorded,” the White House’s Twitter account wrote on May 12.