“New Israeli study finds fully vaccinated people are at ‘greater risk of hospitalization’ and 13 times more likely to catch COVID-19 than those who have recovered and have natural immunity.”
What PolitiFact found
The claim suggests that people are better off going unvaccinated. But peer reviewed studies repeatedly have found that vaccinated people are more likely to avoid hospitalization or death if they become infected.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Gateway Pundit (Conservative website) made this claim around 29 August 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 1 September 2021, 3 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Gateway Pundit has 22 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 11 of them false or fake, 8 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- Instagram posthttps://www.instagram.com/p/CTKhviQAT4i/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=14080550-0a42-43b7-b9…
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