“In the United Kingdom, “70-plus percent of the people who die now from COVID are fully vaccinated.”
What PolitiFact found
The statistic applies to England, not all of the U.K. The unvaccinated are still much more likely to die from COVID-19: The death rate — the number of deaths per 100,000 people — is much higher among the unvaccinated.
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In short
Alex Berenson (Journalist) made this claim around 19 October 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 29 October 2021, 10 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Alex Berenson has 5 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
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