Washington Post Gives Biden 4 ‘Pinocchios’ for Claim About Hospital Beds and Alzheimer’s

President 👤Joe Biden received 📰The Washington Post’s highest rating for untruth after recent comments about hospital beds and patients suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.

In a “fact check” on Thursday, the Post’s Glenn Kessler noted that Biden made shifting claims about the need to address the degenerative disease. The Post used the word “nonsensical” in its headline to describe the president’s words.

“You know, if we don’t do something about Alzheimer’s in America, every single, solitary hospital bed that exists in America — as the nurses can tell you — every single one will be occupied in the next 15 years with an Alzheimer’s patient — every one,” the president said in May.

That was an even more dire prediction than one Biden made in March, since he’d moved up the doomsday date by five years.

“And I say to the press here, if we don’t do something, for example about Alzheimer’s, every single bed in American hospitals today will be occupied by someone with Alzheimer’s within 20 years, every single bed,” he said.

Kessler called the comment “one of those classic Biden factoids — an assertion with specific numbers that seems to change in each telling.”

In trying to assess the claim the Post said it “consulted with many experts on Alzheimer’s disease, but they were stumped, too. This seems to be a Biden original.”

The Post said that in sifting through research