{"id":1475204,"date":"2022-05-14T10:14:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T14:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1475204"},"modified":"2022-05-14T10:14:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T14:14:43","slug":"white-house-admits-it-misstated-false-claim-no-covid-vaccine-existed-when-biden-took-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-admits-it-misstated-false-claim-no-covid-vaccine-existed-when-biden-took-office\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Admits It \u2018Misstated\u2019 False Claim No COVID Vaccine Existed When Biden Took Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fwhite-house-admits-it-misstated-false-claim-no-covid-vaccine-existed-when-biden-took-office%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=1475204&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:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-1240646237.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/biden-administration\">White House<\/a> admitted Friday its claim a day earlier that there was no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/covid-19\">COVID-19 vaccination<\/a> when President Joe Biden took office was a case of misinformation.<\/p>\n<p>The administration was widely criticized after a Thursday tweet aimed at showing Biden\u2019s progress since taking office included the obviously false claim. Biden himself had received <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JerylBier\/status\/1524924854956326941?s=20&#038;t=E9B5ZkaF20lOam67dhcLRA\">his first COVID vaccination shot<\/a> a full month before being sworn in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen President Biden took office, millions were unemployed and there was no vaccine available,\u201d the tweet claimed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When President Biden took office, millions were unemployed and there was no vaccine available.<\/p>\n<p>In the last 15 months, the economy has created 8.3M jobs and the unemployment rate stands at 3.6% \u2014 the fastest decline in unemployment to start a President&#8217;s term ever recorded.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The White House (@WhiteHouse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhiteHouse\/status\/1524868269148192779?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On Friday night, the White House admitted the tweet was mistaken, even as it sought to credit Biden with the larger rollout of the vaccines created under the \u201cOperation Warp Speed\u201d program of his predecessor, former President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe previously misstated that vaccines were unavailable in January 2021,\u201d the White House corrected itself. \u201cWe should have said that they were not widely available. Vaccines became available shortly before the President came into office. Since then, he\u2019s responsible for fully vaccinating over 200 million people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By the time Biden was sworn in, both Moderna\u2019s and Pfizer\u2019s COVID vaccinations had been authorized for emergency use and about 1 million Americans per day were getting them. Biden himself had already received his second shot more than a week before his inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>The backlash against the initial claim was so strong that even left-wing \u201cfact checker\u201d Glenn Kessler of The Washington Post called on the White House to \u201cdelete this false tweet.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Who\u2019s manning the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhiteHouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WhiteHouse<\/a> Twitter account? Delete this false tweet. Biden himself has said 8% of seniors had gotten the vaccine on the day he took office.  Biden was one of them. \u2014> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ojDmn1DNIQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/ojDmn1DNIQ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/V7z07DHQ90\">https:\/\/t.co\/V7z07DHQ90<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GlennKesslerWP\/status\/1524953947764572167?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>CNN\u2019s Daniel Dale also criticized the White House over the false claim<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-t=\"{\" n>\u201c\u2019There was no vaccine available\u2019 is very clearly false,\u201d Dale <a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ddale8\/status\/1525093640334360576\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-t=\"{\" n>tweeted<\/a>. \u201cMore than 3 million Americans were fully vaccinated and more than 18 million had at least one dose by Biden\u2019s Inauguration Day. Biden himself was fully vaccinated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{\" n>White House COVID point man Dr. Anthony Fauci was asked Thursday by CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper why the administration made the false claim.<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{\" n>\u201cI just can\u2019t explain it,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1525226261714554880?s=20&#038;t=E9B5ZkaF20lOam67dhcLRA\">Fauci replied<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{\" n>Despite the fact the tweet was clearly false, Twitter has still declined to take it down.<\/p>\n<p>The embarrassing 180-degree turn comes as the White House is seeking to create a new office within the Department of Homeland Security to root out false information online called the \u201cDisinformation Governance Board.\u201d The Biden administration\u2019s choice to run the panel is Nina Jankowicz, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/house-republicans-demand-answers-from-nina-jankowicz-on-new-disinformation-governance-board\">Republican lawmakers<\/a> say is a hardcore partisan with a dubious social media history that includes branding the Hunter Biden laptop story as a Russian disinformation campaign.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u201cWill the new Ministry of Truth be fact checking this absurd propaganda from <\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">the White<\/span> <span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">House<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">?\u201d Texas Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanCrenshawTX\/status\/1525140569705553921?s=20&#038;t=E9B5ZkaF20lOam67dhcLRA\">Rep. Dan Crenshaw asked on Twitter<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House admitted Friday its claim a day earlier that there was no COVID-19 vaccination when President Joe Biden took office was a case of misinformation.The administration was widely<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1482979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1475204","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\/1475204","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\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1475204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}