“You are 17 times more likely to go to the hospital if you’re not vaccinated, 20 times more likely to die.”
What PolitiFact found
Available CDC data indicates the unvaccinated are 17 times more likely to be hospitalized and 20 times more likely to die of COVID-19 than those who are vaccinated.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Jen Psaki (White House press secretary) made this claim around 10 January 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 12 January 2022, 2 days later. Its rating was “True”.
Jen Psaki has 5 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 3 of them false or fake, 0 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2022/01/10/press-briefing-by-pre…
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