“CDC officials admit more hospitalizations of young people from vaccine than from the actual COVID virus.”
Social media posts
Instagram. Claim dated 28 Jun 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
The CDC categorically rejected the claim. A blog post that the claim relies on misinterpreted a CDC statistic.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 28 June 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 30 June 2021, 2 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- Instagram posthttps://www.instagram.com/p/CQrT9HMtMoG/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=1b798437-a78d-467a-86…
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