Ron DeSantis accused Biden of having a "wide open southern border" which has led to the importation of the virus across the US. "No elected official is doing more to enable the transmission of COVID in America than Joe Biden with his open borders policies," DeSantis said in a fundraising letter the same day. Facts First: Public health experts dispute the notion that migrants entering the southern border are largely responsible for exploding Covid cases across a large swath of the country. "It should be obvious that the greatest risk of acquiring COVID is from neighbors, not from 'aliens' pouring across the 'wide-open southern" border,' Waldman said, noting that Florida does not touch the southern border but it does share a border with Alabama, one of the least vaccinated states in the country. Out of the migrants encountered at the Southern border by the US Customs and Border Protection from January to June, 64% were removed from the US under the health order.

Source: CNN August 10, 2021 11:03 UTC