“The U.S. had 44 CDC staffers “in China to observe what was going on. (President Trump) brought home the vast majority of them, I think left only four in place.”
What PolitiFact found
The CDC staff overall went down, but not as much as Biden said. On the other hand, the staff in a key program went to zero Americans.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (Former Vice President of the United States) made this claim around 14 May 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 21 May 2020, 7 days later. Its rating was “Half 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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