Posted on 01/16/2022 8:57:37 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump falsely declared in a weekend rally that public health authorities are denying the COVID-19 vaccine to white people because of their race.
TRUMP: “The left is now rationing lifesaving therapeutics based on race, discriminating against and denigrating ... white people to determine who lives and who dies. If you’re white you don’t get the vaccine or if you’re white you don’t get therapeutics. ... In New York state, if you’re white, you have to go to the back of the line to get medical health.”
THE FACTS: No, white people are not being excluded from vaccines, of which there is a plentiful supply. And there is no evidence they being sent to the “back of the line” for COVID-19 care as a matter of public health policy.
Trump distorted a New York policy that allows for race to be one consideration when dispensing oral antiviral treatments, which are in limited supply. The policy attempts to steer those treatments to people at the most risk of severe disease from the coronavirus.
It says that nonwhite race or Hispanic ethnicity “should be considered a risk factor” because long-standing health and social inequities make people of color more likely to get severely ill or die from the virus.
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Factcheck seems to say;
“Well,Yes and No.”
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Funny. Their fact check states exactly what Trump said.
The AP is outright lying here. They mention only the vaccine but monoclonal antibody treatment is being rationed by race. People have posted videos of health care workers telling them they can’t get treatment because they are white.
Who do you believe, the AP or your lying eyes?
“long-standing health and social inequities make people of color more likely to get severely ill or die from the virus”
http://www.lerctr.org/~transit/healy/crap.wav
I don’t believe it was vaccines. I believe it was the therapeutics and it is TRUE.
If it is a “falsehood”, why did I find an article yesterday saying the 120 religious hospitals agreed to stop doing. The Ass. Press gets it wrong again.
So what was it...part of their "we're just kidding" policy??
Half truths like when the Jan 6 Witch Hunt committed said Epps wasn’t employed by law enforcement. If he was or wasn’t what people suspect it’s pretty much immaterial now (they could be setting him up to have something happen to him so they can blame opponents as well as maybe protecting him).
He didn’t say white people are being denied the vaccine. He said white people are being denied therapeutics. I can confirm this, as I was denied them just last week, when I was told therapeutics are only given to “at-risk groups.”
...doing IT....
AP Fact Check is like an oxymoron.
The AssPress is the most left wing propaganda organization in the US right now and that says a lot considering how many there are.
AP Seeds Race Animus by Covering Up Racist COVID Policy
Does anybody at all take AP “Fact Check” seriously?
Or anything else that AP claims?
NEXT!
CALVIN WOODWARD and DAVID KLEPPER - Trump is talking about treatments NOT about the vaccines. Treatments like monoclonal antibodies etc... Read the damn papers...
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