Unvaccinated people 'are making the vaccinated people sick and die, but the unvaccinated people are not dead or sick.
Breakthrough cases of COVID-19, in which the virus infects people who have been vaccinated, have led to confusion and even despair. But a viral image takes that relatively rare occurrence and wrongly claims that somehow unvaccinated people are escaping COVID-19 unscathed. It says: 'Make it make sense! Unvaccinated are making the vaccinated people sick and die. But the unvaccinated people are not dead or sick. Make it make sense!' The post was flagged as part of Facebook's efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) A tiny fraction of vaccinated people have been hospitalized or died as a result of a breakthrough infection: It's not known how many breakthrough infections were caused by contact with an infected person who was unvaccinated. But it's clear that unvaccinated people are being hit much harder by the virus than those who have been inoculated. Seven states with some of the lowest vaccination rates - Florida, Texas, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi - accounted for about half of new cases and hospitalizations in the previous week, the White House said at a briefing Aug. 5. Based on preliminary data, hospitalizations and deaths 'are overwhelmingly unvaccinated people,' CDC director Rochelle Walensky said at the briefing. The CDC estimated July 29 that the unvaccinated are 25 times more likely than the vaccinated to be hospitalized or to die from the virus. We rate the post False.
We rate the post False.
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