Heather Scobie, an epidemiologist at the CDC, wrote in a Dec.
17 that the seriousness of infection is "still up in the air right now because there are a lot of confounding issues as to whether or not it is less severe." Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to the president, told reporters Dec. Some early evidence out of South Africa provided hope that the omicron variant may cause a more mild disease than earlier variants, but many patients there were younger, making them less likely to develop severe illness to begin with. Vaccination doesn’t eliminate risk of transmission We emailed spokespersons for the White House to ask for Biden’s evidence and did not hear back. Any concerns experts had about the accuracy of Biden’s statement before omicron seemed to have been strengthened in the face of this new variant. However, we found that Biden again inaccurately characterized the vaccine when he suggested that a vaccinated individual can’t spread the virus. "While data are emerging and not yet complete for omicron, this appears to be even more the case for that variant."īiden’s emphasis on promoting vaccination is rooted in evidence that it helps protect people from serious cases, including hospitalization and death. "We knew that vaccinated people could become infected with delta and shed viable virus in large amounts," Hanage said. a vaccinated person in recent weeks, but scientists in general said that vaccinated people can also spread COVID-19.īill Hanage, associate professor of epidemiology at Harvard, said Biden’s December "statement is not accurate." We found that there is not enough data on how many people caught COVID-19 from an unvaccinated person vs. We reached out again to experts to see if their understanding has changed about the role the vaccinated play in COVID-19’s transmission. in December, we wanted to revisit the question: Can vaccinated people spread COVID-19? Now that omicron has spread rapidly across the U.S. Smith, a Kent State University epidemiologist, told us: "Vaccination does significantly reduce transmission from vaccinated breakthrough cases but does not completely eliminate it."Ī reader flagged Biden’s more recent remarks and asked us to look at his statement. That was before the omicron variant was named a variant of concern by the World Health Organization.Īt the time, Tara C. We fact-checked a similar statement by Biden in October when he said people who are vaccinated for the coronavirus "cannot spread it to you." We found at the time that studies showed a vaccinated person was less likely to spread the virus, but the risk wasn’t zero. Well guess what? How about patriotism? How about making sure that you’re vaccinated, so you do not spread the disease to anyone else." Everybody talks about freedom and not to have a shot or have a test.
#Biden its not about your freedom full
"This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated," Biden said in the full interview.
#Biden its not about your freedom tv
The RNC tweeted a partial clip of an interview Biden gave to a Dayton, Ohio, TV station that aired Dec. The Republican National Committee said Biden has misled Americans about the effectiveness of the vaccine.
As President Joe Biden heads toward his second year in office of leading the country through a pandemic, he faces the challenge of trying to convince millions of unvaccinated Americans to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
0 kommentar(er)
