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FactCheck.org says: Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer lifted the state's stay-at-home order on June 1. The vast majority of the state's businesses are open with some restrictions, as are churches and schools, with some remote teaching.
FactCheck.org says: There was a microphone malfunction, but there was no evidence that the debate commission acted deliberately and it did not apologize.
FactCheck.org says: Trump said he assumed he might get COVID-19 because he has to meet with people and cannot always distance himself. He mentioned an event in honor of the families of deceased military veterans as one example.
FactCheck.org says: According to medical experts and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, the president may very well still be contagious, and ought to be isolated.
FactCheck.org says: The products are still in clinical trials and have not been proven to be effective for COVID-19 patients, much less cure the disease.
FactCheck.org says: Daniel Cameron was recently married, but his wife is not related to McConnell.
FactCheck.org says: As of 2016, the year before Trump took office, there were at least six warehouses holding “approximately $7 billion in products across more than 900 separate line items,” according to an NAS report.
FactCheck.org says: Experts say the White House testing strategy was insufficient to protect the president, and White House photos show a maskless Trump in close contact with others.
FactCheck.org says: Obama pardoned or commuted the prison sentences of about 1,900 individuals. Trump issued 27 pardons and 11 commutations.
FactCheck.org says: CDC says the seasonal influenza over the past decade has claimed between 12,000 and 61,000 lives each year — and on average, fewer than 40,000 lives. Twitter labeled his tweet misleading and potentially harmful.
FactCheck.org says: Trump is trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which put such protections into place, and his recent executive order, on its own, doesn’t legally guarantee them.
FactCheck.org says: Individual cities and counties in each of those states do have orders requiring face coverings to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
FactCheck.org says: The U.S. military may assist in the distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available, but it will not forcibly administer vaccines.
FactCheck.org says: A photo of Chris Wallace circulating on social media purports to show the Fox News anchor with Jeffrey Epstein. He was actually pictured with George Clooney.
FactCheck.org says: Two days later, Conley admitted for the first time that the president had received supplemental oxygen on Friday, for about an hour.