{"id":1197693,"date":"2022-01-07T16:49:28","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T21:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1197693"},"modified":"2022-01-07T16:49:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T21:49:38","slug":"fact-check-justice-sotomayor-claims-omicron-just-as-deadly-for-the-unvaccinated-as-delta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-justice-sotomayor-claims-omicron-just-as-deadly-for-the-unvaccinated-as-delta\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact Check: Justice Sotomayor Claims Omicron \u2018Just as Deadly for the Unvaccinated\u2019 as Delta"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-justice-sotomayor-claims-omicron-just-as-deadly-for-the-unvaccinated-as-delta%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1197693&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Sonia-Sotomayor-Getty-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">CLAIM: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said that the omicron variant is \u201cjust as deadly\u201d as the delta variant.<\/p>\n<p>VERDICT: FALSE. While omicron is highly infectious, deaths and hospitalizations have been less frequent than for delta.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Justice Sotomayor said Friday during oral arguments at the Court about the Biden administration\u2019s vaccine mandates that increased hospitalizations \u201cshow that omicron is just as deadly for the unvaccinated\u201d as the delta variant.<\/p>\n<p>Sotomayor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/live-news\/supreme-court-hears-oral-arguments-on-biden-vaccine-mandates-live-updates?test=d2050690a0596a841b56acc12f90c8e6\">objected<\/a> to the claim by Ohio Solicitor General Benjamin Flowers that the omicron variant represents a different circumstance than the formerly more prominent delta variant, since omicron appears to be less severe, as well as to his argument that existing coronavirus vaccines seem to be less effective in limiting transmission of omicron.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have over 100,000 children, which we\u2019ve never had before, in serious condition and many on ventilators,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>White House Chief Medical Advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said just Wednesday that \u201cmultiple sources of now-preliminary data indicate a decrease severity with omicron.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">J. Sotomayor says Omicron is as deadly as Delta.  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SCOTUS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SCOTUS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shannon Bream (@ShannonBream) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShannonBream\/status\/1479480779747045381?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Fauci <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/01\/05\/fauci-says-multiple-preliminary-studies-find-omicron-is-less-severe-than-delta.html\">said<\/a> during a COVID-19 update with the White House response team that there are increasing amounts of data indicating that omicron is less severe than the delta variant, CNBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/01\/05\/fauci-says-multiple-preliminary-studies-find-omicron-is-less-severe-than-delta.html\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fauci <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2021.12.24.21268382v2.full.pdf\">cited<\/a> a study from Ontario, Canada, that found the risk of hospitalization or death is 65 percent lower among people infected with omicron compared with those who encountered the Delta variant.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the risk of the need for admission to an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) with omicron was 83 percent lower.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Justice Sotomayor during this oral arguments:<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Claimed covid deaths are at an all time high<br \/>\u2013 Claimed that Omicron has been deadlier than Delta<br \/>\u2013 Claimed 100K children are hospitalized with covid<br \/>\u2013 Said OSHA&#8217;s regulatory authority is a federal &#8220;police power.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1479500787583758346?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Citing animal studies as well, Fauci said lung infections with omicron appear to be less severe than with the prior variants.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt was shown that the virus ofoOmicron proliferates very well in the upper airway and bronchi, but actually very poorly in the lungs,\u201d he said, suggesting it is causing less severe lung infections.<\/p>\n<p>Fauci added that omicron also appears less severe for children when compared with the delta variant.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is just absolutely astonishing.  &#8220;100,000 children in serious condition,&#8221; per Sotomayor.  Where do these people obtain their misinformation?  The current national pediatric COVID census per HHS is 3,342.  Many\/most incidental.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kerpen\/status\/1479481779643895816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Similarly, the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/life-style\/health\/1544921\/omicron-symptoms-headache-runny-nose-evg\">said<\/a> it is seeing evidence omicron causes \u201cmilder symptoms,\u201d not unlike those associated with a common cold.<\/p>\n<p><em>Express<\/em> reported Wednesday from the UK:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.fo\/o\/NxCr0\/https:\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/omicron\">Omicron<\/a> remains the most dominant strain of <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.fo\/o\/NxCr0\/https:\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/coronavirus\">coronavirus<\/a> in the UK. Despite confirmed cases continuing to rise, mild symptoms are thought to be keeping hospitalisations low across the world, according to new evidence from the World Health Organization (WHO).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe are seeing more and more studies pointing out that omicron is infecting the upper part of the body, unlike other ones where the lungs would be causing severe pneumonia,\u201d W.H.O. Incident Manager Abdi Mohamud told a group of Geneva-based journalists Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>While omicron remains highly transmissible, the variant appears to impact the upper respiratory tract rather than the lungs and is showing to be more manageable for those who contract symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[T]he somewhat rarer impact of omicron on the lungs is thought to be the cause of less noticeable symptoms,\u201d the report noted.<\/p>\n<p>The case is <em>National Federation of Independent Business v.&nbsp;OSHA<\/em>, 21A244 in the Supreme Court of the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLAIM: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said that the omicron variant is \u201cjust as deadly\u201d as the delta variant. VERDICT: FALSE. While omicron is highly infectious, deaths and hospitalizations &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1197693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}