{"id":75417,"date":"2021-07-24T17:51:21","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T21:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=75417"},"modified":"2021-07-24T17:51:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T21:51:21","slug":"you-are-not-going-to-get-covid-if-you-have-these-vaccines-the-naked-lie-just-told-by-joe-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=75417","title":{"rendered":"\u201cYou are not going to get COVID if you have these vaccines.\u201d — The Naked Lie Just Told By Joe Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biden Gaffe Renews Questions About COVID Transparency<\/h1>\n

By Philip Wegmann
\nRealClearPolitics.com<\/p>\n

President Biden so desperately wants the vaccine-hesitant part of the country to get their shots that\u00a0he may have spread a little misinformation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cYou are not going to get COVID,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>he promised during a CNN town-event Wednesday night, \u201cif you have these vaccines.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Of course, this is not true.\u00a0<\/strong>Biden knows it. He said as much later during the forum, explaining that, while vaccinated individuals enjoy significant protections, they can still test positive for the virus. But even if that happens, the president pointed out, the vaccine largely mitigates the most serious dangers. \u201cYou are not going to be hospitalized,\u201d he said, reciting the latest scientific consensus. \u201cYou are not going to be in the IC unit, and you are not going to die.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fact that fully vaccinated individuals can still contract the coronavirus is a medical reality. It has also led to more uncomfortable questions about transparency for the Biden administration.<\/strong><\/p>\n

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki revealed at Tuesday\u2019s briefing that there had been previously undisclosed \u201cbreakthrough infections\u201d among vaccinated employees at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Psaki refused, two days later, to say how many White House officials had gotten sick.<\/p>\n

Reporters pressed her on the issue. After all, as the country learned the hard way during the pandemic, the health of the people working directly for the president can end up influencing the health of the republic. A lot of people have those jobs, more than 2,000 in the White House itself and the adjacent Eisenhower Executive Office Building. According to Psaki, that means \u201cthat just statistically speaking, there will be people who are vaccinated individuals who get COVID on the campus.\u201d<\/p>\n

Will the White House make those statistics available as they develop? \u201cNo,\u201d Psaki said. \u201cI don’t think you can expect that we’re going to be providing numbers of breakthrough cases.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, why not? The story of the pandemic has been told through the charts and graphs presented to the public by members of the White House COVID task force. Why should this data be exempt?<\/p>\n

When Kelly O’Donnell of NBC News pressed the White House to explain the lack of transparency, Psaki responded by saying that things are different now:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWell, Kelly, I think, one, we’re in a very different place than we were several months ago. The vast, vast, vast majority of individuals who are vaccinated who get COVID will be asymptomatic or have mild cases.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n