On Jan. 28, 2021 Zebra Fact Check sent a correction request to PolitiFact. We noticed PolitiFact described a 300 million hoped-for future supply of coronavirus vaccine as 300. PolitiFact issued a correction, though with less transparency than we hoped. Find more details in a post at PolitiFact Bias.
Dear Truth-O-Meter,
Your Jan. 27, 2021 fact check of Ron Klain’s vaccine plan claim contains an inaccurate summary of the Biden administration’s vaccine plans.
The Biden administration plans to have supplies sufficient to vaccinate 300 million Americans by around the middle of the year. Your fact check misrepresents that number as 300.
That’s off by nearly 300 million.
Please consider correcting the error in keeping with your commitment to the International Fact-Checking Network’s Code of Principles.
Pre-republication update Feb. 8, 2026: It’s interesting to note the Internet Archive got a snapshot of PolitiFact’s fact check after it corrected the error but before it added the “Corrections or Updates” tag.