Critics attacked a year-old erroneous claim on vaccine effectiveness by the president after he tested positive on Thursday.
Using examples of so-called breakthrough infections, in which people get infected with COVID despite vaccination, is a tactic that vaccine skeptics have used to question the effectiveness of vaccines or mandates.Republican Congressman Darrell Issa of California, referring to Biden's 2021 comment.
It should be noted that Biden also stated at another point in the same appearance that"If you're vaccinated, even if you do 'catch the virus'...you're not likely to get sick." This is a more accurate representation of scientific consensus on the vaccines at that point. The scientific consensus since the start of the vaccine rollout has always been that the vaccines would not entirely prevent infection and those breakthrough infections such as Biden's will be possible even in people who have had booster shots.Today he should end his destructive vaccine mandate on our military. It has already destroyed the careers of thousands of our soldiers.
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