“The CDC tried to develop clear guidelines about what the stages of re-opening should look like — the administration delayed and scaled them back.”
Joe Biden
Presidential candidate. Claim dated 30 Jun 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly True
What PolitiFact found
The White House requested that the CDC revise its initial reopening guidelines. The CDC said that the review and revision were part of a standard process, but some experts criticized the delay.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (Presidential candidate) made this claim around 30 June 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 6 July 2020, 6 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
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