{"id":993959,"date":"2021-11-10T10:58:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T15:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=993959"},"modified":"2021-11-10T10:58:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T15:58:42","slug":"fact-check-viral-video-claims-to-show-kamala-harris-saying-everyone-currently-hospitalized-with-covid-19-is-vaccinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-viral-video-claims-to-show-kamala-harris-saying-everyone-currently-hospitalized-with-covid-19-is-vaccinated\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Viral Video Claims To Show Kamala Harris Saying Everyone Currently Hospitalized With COVID-19 Is Vaccinated"},"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\">34<\/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-viral-video-claims-to-show-kamala-harris-saying-everyone-currently-hospitalized-with-covid-19-is-vaccinated%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=993959&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><\/div>\n<p>A video <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ninnyd101\/status\/1456293242102853633\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Twitter<\/a> purportedly shows Vice President Kamala Harris saying, \u201cVirtually every person who is in the hospital sick with COVID-19 right now is vaccinated.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"7.289592760181\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">You couldn\u2019t make this up.<br \/>Clown world.<br \/>\u201cEveryone I known in hospitals is vaccinated get the shot.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bLF4FzllPS\">pic.twitter.com\/bLF4FzllPS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ninnyd \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7\u2764\ufe0f\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 Waiting~4~the Revolution (@ninnyd101) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ninnyd101\/status\/1456293242102853633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The video has been altered to make it seem like she said \u201cvaccinated.\u201d However, the transcript and original footage show she actually said \u201cunvaccinated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ninnyd101\/status\/1456293242102853633\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">viral clip<\/a>, Harris stands in front of a podium, seemingly saying more than once that \u201cvirtually\u201d every person who \u201cis in the hospital right now sick with COVID-19\u201d is vaccinated and that \u201cvirtually\u201d every person who \u201chas recently died from COVID-19\u201d was too.<\/p>\n<p>Check Your Fact located the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qr4eR2hkChU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">original footage<\/a> on the White House YouTube channel through a keyword search and found the video being shared on Twitter has been deceptively altered to change what Harris said, making it appear that she said \u201cvaccinated\u201d rather than \u201cunvaccinated.\u201d The footage dates back to July of this year, when Harris <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/local\/michigan\/2021\/07\/12\/kamala-harris-detroit-michigan-whitmer\/7935097002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was in<\/a> Detroit, Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vice President Harris Delivers Remarks at a Vaccine Mobilization Event\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qr4eR2hkChU?start=1011&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2021\/07\/12\/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-at-a-vaccine-mobilization-event\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">White House transcript<\/a> of Harris\u2019 remarks also shows she said \u201cunvaccinated\u201d in the instances where the edited clip attempted to portray her as saying \u201cvaccinated.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/09\/15\/fact-check-kamala-harris-arrested-singapore\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Was Kamala Harris Arrested In Singapore?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis Delta variant, it spreads faster, and it is in many cases reported to be much more serious in terms of its impact. And the vaccine will protect you from it. And here\u2019s how I know: Virtually every person who is in the hospital sick with COVID-19 right now is unvaccinated,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2021\/07\/12\/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-at-a-vaccine-mobilization-event\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">transcript<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qr4eR2hkChU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">original footage<\/a> shows the vice president saying. \u201cI\u2019m going to repeat that. Virtually \u2014 it\u2019s a fact \u2014 paying attention \u2014 virtually every person who is in the hospital right now sick with COVID-19 is unvaccinated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She goes on to say, \u201cAnd even more regrettably, virtually every person who has recently died from COVID-19 was unvaccinated. The loss. The tragedy of that loss. Literally every person who has died from COVID-19 that we have recently been seeing was unvaccinated,\u201d according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qr4eR2hkChU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">original footage<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2021\/07\/12\/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-at-a-vaccine-mobilization-event\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">transcript<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Upon closer examination of the Twitter clip, it shows clear indicators that it has been altered, such as there being noticeable jumps at the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ninnyd101\/status\/1456293242102853633\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">roughly 24-second and 43-second marks<\/a>. The movement of her lips also doesn\u2019t always line up exactly with the audio.<\/p>\n<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/vaccines\/keythingstoknow.html?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fcoronavirus%2F2019-ncov%2Fvaccines%2F8-things.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on its website<\/a> that COVID-19 vaccines \u201care effective at helping protect everyone ages 5 years and older against severe disease and death from the virus that causes COVID-19, including known variants currently circulating.\u201d Over 194.1 million people in the U.S. have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as of Tuesday, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#vaccinations_vacc-total-admin-rate-totalhttps:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#vaccinations_vacc-total-admin-rate-total\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CDC data<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video shared on Twitter purportedly shows Vice President Kamala Harris saying, \u201cVirtually every person who is in the hospital sick with COVID-19 right now is vaccinated.\u201d You couldn\u2019t make &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"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-993959","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\/993959","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\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993959\/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=993959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}