“People who are vaccinated for the coronavirus “cannot spread it to you.”
What PolitiFact found
Multiple studies show that a vaccinated person is significantly less likely to pass the coronavirus to someone else than an unvaccinated person is. However, the transmission risk is not reduced to zero.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (president) made this claim around 7 October 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 14 October 2021, 7 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/10/07/remarks-by-president…
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