“With retail, people are moving around and you don’t have as much a chance to spread the virus (as you do) when people are sitting or standing indoors” for long periods of time.”
What PolitiFact found
While the world's top health organizations haven't compared the exact scenarios of shopping and worship services, experts generally agree with him.
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In short
Roy Cooper (North Carolina Governor) made this claim around 12 May 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 1 June 2020, 20 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Roy Cooper has 3 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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