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Vice President Kamala Harris’ announcement this week that she is not experiencing COVID symptoms despite having tested positive has nevertheless triggered another round of misinformation from vaccine opponents and COVID deniers — even as a new study shows that nearly a quarter-million Americans have died because they chose not to be vaccinated.
Harris became the latest example of high-profile coronavirus cases in people who have received the vaccines and, in recent months, at least one booster shot as well. Dozens of attendees at the Gridiron Club dinner in Washington last month, including Attorney General Merrick Garland and members of Congress, tested positive.
Yet the overwhelming majority of those cases produced at most mild symptoms and did not lead to hospitalization, let alone death. Meaning that two years after then-President Donald Trumpfalsely claimed that COVID was no worse than the common cold, the disease today truly typically is no worse than a cold — for those who are vaccinated and boosted.
“The key message is that the vaccine helps a lot and even if you end up getting sick, the vaccine makes it less likely that you are going to have a bad outcome,” said Tara Kirk Sell, a professor at Johns Hopkins University who studies misinformation surrounding public health crises.
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Harris became the latest example of high-profile coronavirus cases in people who have received the vaccines and, in recent months, at least one booster shot as well. Dozens of attendees at the Gridiron Club dinner in Washington last month, including Attorney General Merrick Garland and members of Congress, tested positive.
Yet the overwhelming majority of those cases produced at most mild symptoms and did not lead to hospitalization, let alone death. Meaning that two years after then-President Donald Trumpfalsely claimed that COVID was no worse than the common cold, the disease today truly typically is no worse than a cold — for those who are vaccinated and boosted.
“The key message is that the vaccine helps a lot and even if you end up getting sick, the vaccine makes it less likely that you are going to have a bad outcome,” said Tara Kirk Sell, a professor at Johns Hopkins University who studies misinformation surrounding public health crises.
VP Harris’ COVID Announcement Sets Off Another Wave of Anti-Vax Disinformation
The spate of high-profile cases among vaccinated people has not resulted in deaths or hospitalizations, but the White House has failed to push that message.
