“Unvaccinated people “are making the vaccinated people sick and die, but the unvaccinated people are not dead or sick.”
Social media posts
Viral image. Claim dated 5 Aug 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
Officials say COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths are occurring overwhelmingly among the unvaccinated. Rarely, vaccinated people are hospitalized or die after becoming infected, but it’s not known who infected them.
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In short
This claim spread on social media around 5 August 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 9 August 2021, 4 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- Saved copy of the posthttps://archive.is/zfqcB
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