Psaki and members of the White House COVID-19 response team have explained that the trusted messengers who will be going door to door to provide information about the vaccines will be doctors, faith and community leaders, and other volunteers not federal employees. She said the campaign is actually a continuation of an effort that has been ongoing since at least April.
So, those are the people who are the trusted messengers around the country. And we believe that we need to empower these individuals to continue to work in communities to make sure people know that these vaccines are safe, that they can save lives, Psaki said in a July 8 press briefing.
Even before the first vaccines were rolled out in mid-December, Biden himself said on Dec. 4 that he would not federally mandate that Americans get a vaccine when he became president.
No, I dont think it should be mandatory, then-President-elect Biden said in response to a question about possible vaccine mandates. I wouldnt demand it to be mandatory, but I would do everything in my power, just like I dont think masks have to be made mandatory nationwide, Ill do everything in my power as president of [the] United States to encourage people to do the right thing.
In a July 12 press briefing, Psaki reaffirmed that the federal government would not mandate vaccinations although, she said the administration would support entities that do require the shots.
Thats not a decision that we are making. Thats not a that is not our intention from the federal government, she said in response to a question about local mandates. There will be decisions made by private-sector entities, by universities, by educational institutions, and even perhaps by local leaders, should they decide that is how to keep their community safe. If they decide to make that decision, we certainly support them in that step.
We asked Greenes office for support for her claim that vaccinations would be required as part of the door-to-door campaign. We have not yet received a reply.
The freshman Republican congresswoman from Georgia made other claims in her tweet that we have previously addressed.
She said there have been 5,946 reported deaths after taking the #COVID19 vaccine, leaving the misleading impression that the deaths were caused by the vaccines.
It is true that 5,946 deaths were reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, as of July 6. But [r]eports of adverse events to VAERS following vaccination, including deaths, do not necessarily mean that a vaccine caused a health problem, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states on its website.
As weve written before, anyone can submit a report of an adverse event to VAERS regardless of whether the vaccine was a factor. In the case of deaths, health care providers are required to report any death after COVID-19 vaccination to VAERS, even if its unclear whether the vaccine was the cause, the CDC says.
A review of available clinical information, including death certificates, autopsy, and medical records, has not established a causal link to COVID-19 vaccines, the CDC said of death reports. However, recent reports indicate a plausible causal relationship between the J&J/Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine and TTS, a rare and serious adverse eventblood clots with low plateletswhich has caused deaths.
As of July 6, the Food and Drug Administration and CDC had identified 38 cases of the rare blood clotting condition, which is known as thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome, or TTS. There have been three deaths from the condition among those cases, as of May 7.
Greene also tweeted that the vaccine is NOT FDA approved which is true, but misleading.
As weve noted, the FDA has authorized three COVID-19 vaccines including the one manufactured by Johnson & Johnson for emergency use. In order to grant an emergency use authorization, regulators must determine that the product may be effective and the known and potential benefits of a product outweigh its known and potential risks a standard that is typically less stringent than the standard full licensure, which is called a biologics license application, or BLA.
However, for the three COVID-19 vaccines, the FDA set up more rigorous EUA requirements that resemble the process for a BLA. The FDA required at least one well-designed Phase 3 clinical trial that demonstrates the vaccines safety and efficacy in a clear and compelling manner and wanted to see at least two months of follow-up data on half or more of the participants.
Greene disregards the rigorous clinical trials and real-world evidence that show the vaccines have been safe and effective.
According to CDC data, the seven-day rolling average of daily deaths from COVID-19 has declined by about 94% since the vaccines became available in the U.S. The seven-day average of daily deaths was 2,779 on Dec. 14; as of July 11, it was down to 176.
Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna have filed for final approval of their vaccines.
Finally, while claiming that 33,631,656 Americans SURVIVED covid, Greene did not acknowledge that more than 600,000 U.S. deaths have been attributed to the disease. Even some individuals who have survived an infection have reported experiencing COVID-19 symptoms and side effects that persist for months.
Whats more, only a small percentage of recent COVID-19 deaths have been people who were vaccinated, according to government data.
In a July 1 White House COVID-19 response team briefing, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said that preliminary data from a collection of states since January suggest 99.5% of deaths from COVID-19 in these states have occurred in unvaccinated people.
With vaccines available across the country, the suffering and loss we are now seeing is nearly entirely avoidable, she said.
Walenskys remarks are in line with an Associated Press analysis that found that nearly all of the people in the U.S. who died from COVID-19 in May were not vaccinated.
About 150 out of more than 18,000 COVID-19 deaths that month were in fully vaccinated people. That translates to about 0.8%, or five deaths per day on average, the AP reported.
The news service also said that fully vaccinated people accounted for less than 1,200 or about 1.1% of more than 107,000 COVID-19 related hospitalizations that month.
Editors note:SciChecks COVID-19/Vaccination Projectis made possible by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The foundation hasno controlover our editorial decisions, and the views expressed in our articles do not necessarily reflect the views of the foundation. The goal of the project is to increase exposure to accurate information about COVID-19 and vaccines, while decreasing the impact of misinformation.
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Taylor Greene, Marjorie. @mtgreenee. 5,946 reported deaths after taking the #COVID19 vaccine. The vaccine is NOT FDA approved. 33,631,656 Americans SURVIVED covid. But Biden & the Dems are coming to your front door to force you to take the vax, schools say your healthy kids need it, and you still think your free? Twitter. 9 Jul 2021.
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