President Trump says a coronavirus vaccine is going to be announced within weeks

Expert Dr Anthony Fauci says we will know if one of them works in Nov or Dec, but there would only be a few million doses available

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Biden denied calling restrictions on travel from China due to coronavirus xenophobic

He said at the time it was no time for the president's "hysterical xenophobia"

His campaign says he wasn't talking about travel measures #Debates2020 #BBCRealityCheck

http://bbc.in/3koadUT 

Joe Biden said the president "has caused the deficit with China to go up, not down"

That's not quite right:

It rose in 2017 but fell in 2018

In 2019 it was $308bn, slightly less than $310bn in 2016

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President Trump said excess mortality - the number of deaths more than you would expect for a particular period - is lower in the US than "almost any other country in the world"

Is that true?

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http://bbc.in/2TfvIeI 

President Trump said he had got Nato countries to "put up an extra $130bn... a year"

European countries and Canada have raised defence budgets by $130bn in total since 2016 - so not per year

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Mr Biden's campaign site says the Democrats would protect "America's natural treasures by... banning new oil and gas permitting on public lands and waters"

But they are not opposed to fracking in general

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http://bbc.in/37sTZq2 

President Trump said "we have the cleanest air, the cleanest water"

The US does currently have its cleanest air on record, but Yale ranked the US 26th in the World on sanitation and drinking water

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Joe Biden said "coronavirus spikes are in red states"

In the last week the most cases per head have been in Dakotas (Republican governors), Montana and Wisconsin (Democrat governors)

Cases have risen in states run by both

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President Trump said the US has "rounded the corner" on coronavirus

But cases and hospitalisations are rising in the US

There are about 60,000 new cases a day now, up from about 50,000 a day earlier in the month

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President Trump said he had "a plan to help people with pre-existing conditions" with healthcare

If he has a plan he has not shared details of it

He promised to replace Obamacare with something better but has not said what
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