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President Joe Biden's message to social media companies where vaccine misinformation has spread: 'They're killing people'
Biden: Social media ‘killing people’ with COVID misinformation
Misinformation about the virus and vaccines has spread on platforms including Facebook and Twitter.
Jul 17 - President Joe Biden has said that social media companies are “killing people” by failing to police misinformation on their platforms about COVID-19 vaccines.
Biden’s comments came a day after US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared misinformation about the vaccines a threat to public health and as US officials advised that deaths and serious illness from the virus are almost entirely preventable because of the vaccines.
Biden, asked if he had a message for platforms like Facebook where false or misleading information about the coronavirus vaccines has spread, told reporters on Friday: “They’re killing people.”
“The only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated,” he said... more
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Biden: Social media ‘killing people’ with COVID misinformation
Misinformation about the virus and vaccines has spread on platforms including Facebook and Twitter.
Jul 17 - President Joe Biden has said that social media companies are “killing people” by failing to police misinformation on their platforms about COVID-19 vaccines.
Biden’s comments came a day after US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared misinformation about the vaccines a threat to public health and as US officials advised that deaths and serious illness from the virus are almost entirely preventable because of the vaccines.
Biden, asked if he had a message for platforms like Facebook where false or misleading information about the coronavirus vaccines has spread, told reporters on Friday: “They’re killing people.”
“The only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated,” he said... more
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JULY 16, 2021
White House Daily Briefing
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki talked about the president’s agenda with reporters. She responded to a variety of questions including monitoring COVID-19 misinformation, vaccination efforts, spending negotiations, and troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.
White House Daily Briefing
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki talked about the president’s agenda with reporters. She responded to a variety of questions including monitoring COVID-19 misinformation, vaccination efforts, spending negotiations, and troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki, July 16, 2021
JULY 16, 2021•PRESS BRIEFINGSJames S. Brady Press Briefing Room
MS. PSAKI: Hi, everyone.
Q Hello.
MS. PSAKI: Happy Friday.
Q Happy Friday.
MS. PSAKI: Brian Karem has got some sunglasses on. Everybody is ready for the weekend.
Okay, I have a couple of items for all of you at the top.
Last week, we launched the Supply Chain Disruption Task Force to monitor, engage, and act on current and emerging supply chain disruptions and bottlenecks.
This afternoon, the White House is hosting a convening of the Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force with Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Marcia Fudge, Director of the National Economic Council Brian Deese, Domestic Policy Advisor Susan Rice, Council of Economic Advisers Chair Cecilia Rouse, and groups representing the full range of the homebuilding supply chain, from loggers and log- — and lumber contractors, labor leaders, realtors, and affordable housing advocates.
At this convening, these administration officials and key stakeholders will discuss strategies to address short-term supply chain disruptions in the homebuilding sector and how they can work together to address them.
I also wanted to note that yesterday, senior White House officials, led by Susan Rice and Julie Rodriguez, launched the Community Violence Intervention Collaborative announced by the President on June 23rd as part of his comprehensive plan to reduce gun crime... more
JULY 16, 2021•PRESS BRIEFINGSJames S. Brady Press Briefing Room
MS. PSAKI: Hi, everyone.
Q Hello.
MS. PSAKI: Happy Friday.
Q Happy Friday.
MS. PSAKI: Brian Karem has got some sunglasses on. Everybody is ready for the weekend.
Okay, I have a couple of items for all of you at the top.
Last week, we launched the Supply Chain Disruption Task Force to monitor, engage, and act on current and emerging supply chain disruptions and bottlenecks.
This afternoon, the White House is hosting a convening of the Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force with Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Marcia Fudge, Director of the National Economic Council Brian Deese, Domestic Policy Advisor Susan Rice, Council of Economic Advisers Chair Cecilia Rouse, and groups representing the full range of the homebuilding supply chain, from loggers and log- — and lumber contractors, labor leaders, realtors, and affordable housing advocates.
At this convening, these administration officials and key stakeholders will discuss strategies to address short-term supply chain disruptions in the homebuilding sector and how they can work together to address them.
I also wanted to note that yesterday, senior White House officials, led by Susan Rice and Julie Rodriguez, launched the Community Violence Intervention Collaborative announced by the President on June 23rd as part of his comprehensive plan to reduce gun crime... more
The unprecedented online talks involving heads of state from the 21-nation Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) group was called at short notice by New Zealand MANDEL NGAN
Biden, Xi join APEC talks on pandemic response
Jul 17 - Washington has accused Beijing of lacking transparency about the origins of the pandemic, adding to existing tensions on issues such as trade tariffs and the treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
Ardern has signalled she wants greater powers for the World Health Organisation, as well as the establishment of cross-border systems to rapidly identify and respond to future pandemics.
The New Zealand leader has also pushed for improved vaccine cooperation internationally, arguing that runaway outbreaks of the Delta variant in Thailand and Indonesia show why it is a mistake for countries to simply prioritise inoculating their own populations.
A key plank of Ardern's plan is increased resources for the Covax programme, which was set up to ensure equitable distribution of vaccines but has struggled to secure enough doses for low-income nations.
As this year's APEC host, she has already ordered officials to work on expediting the trade of Covid-19 vaccines and medical material across the region.
But Ardern this week played down expectations of major announcements from Friday's meeting, saying it was primarily an opportunity to bring leaders together to collectively discuss current challenges. quoted from
Biden, Xi join APEC talks on pandemic response
Jul 17 - Washington has accused Beijing of lacking transparency about the origins of the pandemic, adding to existing tensions on issues such as trade tariffs and the treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
Ardern has signalled she wants greater powers for the World Health Organisation, as well as the establishment of cross-border systems to rapidly identify and respond to future pandemics.
The New Zealand leader has also pushed for improved vaccine cooperation internationally, arguing that runaway outbreaks of the Delta variant in Thailand and Indonesia show why it is a mistake for countries to simply prioritise inoculating their own populations.
A key plank of Ardern's plan is increased resources for the Covax programme, which was set up to ensure equitable distribution of vaccines but has struggled to secure enough doses for low-income nations.
As this year's APEC host, she has already ordered officials to work on expediting the trade of Covid-19 vaccines and medical material across the region.
But Ardern this week played down expectations of major announcements from Friday's meeting, saying it was primarily an opportunity to bring leaders together to collectively discuss current challenges. quoted from
Rochelle Walensky, CDC director, says places with high percentages of vaccinated individuals are ‘generally faring well’
Top US health official warns of ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’
Facebook hits back at Biden after he accuses platform of ‘killing people’ by spreading misinformation
Jul 17 - The US is experiencing a “pandemic of the unvaccinated”, the head of the country’s top public health agency warned, as new coronavirus cases have jumped 70 per cent in the past week.
More than 33,000 infections were reported across the US on Thursday, Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said at a press briefing on Friday morning.
That boosted the seven-day average of new cases to about 26,300 a day, from a rate of roughly 15,500 a week ago.
“This is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” Walensky said.
“We are seeing outbreaks of cases in parts of the country that have low vaccination coverage because unvaccinated people are at risk.”
Communities that have a higher share of fully vaccinated residents are “generally faring well”, she said, but health officials at federal and state levels have increasingly been pointing to high proportions of new Covid-19 hospitalisations and deaths among unvaccinated individuals.
“We know that 99.5 per cent of people who are in the hospital are people who are unvaccinated, and people who are dying of Covid are unvaccinated,” Jen Psaki, White House press secretary, said on Friday. “The data is very clear,”
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Jul 17 - The US is experiencing a “pandemic of the unvaccinated”, the head of the country’s top public health agency warned, as new coronavirus cases have jumped 70 per cent in the past week.
More than 33,000 infections were reported across the US on Thursday, Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said at a press briefing on Friday morning.
That boosted the seven-day average of new cases to about 26,300 a day, from a rate of roughly 15,500 a week ago.
“This is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” Walensky said.
“We are seeing outbreaks of cases in parts of the country that have low vaccination coverage because unvaccinated people are at risk.”
Communities that have a higher share of fully vaccinated residents are “generally faring well”, she said, but health officials at federal and state levels have increasingly been pointing to high proportions of new Covid-19 hospitalisations and deaths among unvaccinated individuals.
“We know that 99.5 per cent of people who are in the hospital are people who are unvaccinated, and people who are dying of Covid are unvaccinated,” Jen Psaki, White House press secretary, said on Friday. “The data is very clear,”
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Although the number of new cases remains far below the peak of the pandemic, the latest increase has raised concerns that new restrictions may once again be needed to keep healthcare systems from being overwhelmed, especially as the pace of vaccinations slows.
After a blistering start, the US’s inoculation campaign has lost momentum, with some people afraid or unwilling to get the jab despite plentiful supply.
The Biden administration has also expressed concern that vaccine hesitancy is being fuelled by misinformation shared on social media platforms, prompting a public spat with Facebook. Asked about the social network’s role on Friday, Joe Biden said: “They’re killing people . . . The only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated and they’re killing people.” The US president’s comments came a day after the White House criticised social media groups for failing to clamp down on so-called misinformation superspreaders.
Facebook hit back at the president’s remarks on Friday in an unusually strident statement, saying that it would “not be distracted by accusations which aren’t supported by the facts”.
It added: “The fact is that more than 2bn people have viewed authoritative information about Covid-19 and vaccines on Facebook . . . more than 3.3m Americans have also used our vaccine finder tool. The facts show that Facebook is helping save lives. Period.” In a follow-up statement, a Facebook official accused the White House of “looking for scapegoats for missing their vaccine goals”.
“In private exchanges the surgeon general [Dr Vivek Murthy] has praised our work, including our efforts to inform people about Covid-19.
They knew what they were doing,” the official said. The US has fully vaccinated 48.3 per cent of its population, according to the CDC.
The rate of doses administered nationally dropped from a daily average of more than 3.4m in mid-April to about 421,000 a day in the week ended July 10. Four states — Florida, Texas, California and Missouri — accounted for more than 40 per cent of new coronavirus cases in the US over the past week, according to Jeff Zients, the White House’s coronavirus task force co-ordinator. Florida alone accounted for one in five new infections over the past week.
After a blistering start, the US’s inoculation campaign has lost momentum, with some people afraid or unwilling to get the jab despite plentiful supply.
The Biden administration has also expressed concern that vaccine hesitancy is being fuelled by misinformation shared on social media platforms, prompting a public spat with Facebook. Asked about the social network’s role on Friday, Joe Biden said: “They’re killing people . . . The only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated and they’re killing people.” The US president’s comments came a day after the White House criticised social media groups for failing to clamp down on so-called misinformation superspreaders.
Facebook hit back at the president’s remarks on Friday in an unusually strident statement, saying that it would “not be distracted by accusations which aren’t supported by the facts”.
It added: “The fact is that more than 2bn people have viewed authoritative information about Covid-19 and vaccines on Facebook . . . more than 3.3m Americans have also used our vaccine finder tool. The facts show that Facebook is helping save lives. Period.” In a follow-up statement, a Facebook official accused the White House of “looking for scapegoats for missing their vaccine goals”.
“In private exchanges the surgeon general [Dr Vivek Murthy] has praised our work, including our efforts to inform people about Covid-19.
They knew what they were doing,” the official said. The US has fully vaccinated 48.3 per cent of its population, according to the CDC.
The rate of doses administered nationally dropped from a daily average of more than 3.4m in mid-April to about 421,000 a day in the week ended July 10. Four states — Florida, Texas, California and Missouri — accounted for more than 40 per cent of new coronavirus cases in the US over the past week, according to Jeff Zients, the White House’s coronavirus task force co-ordinator. Florida alone accounted for one in five new infections over the past week.
In Mississippi, unvaccinated individuals made up 94 per cent of new Covid cases, 87 per cent of hospitalisations and 93 per cent of deaths this week, according to Thomas Dobbs, the state’s top health officer. Mississippi has the lowest level of vaccine coverage in the US, with just 33.6 per cent of its residents fully vaccinated.
Arkansas, Missouri, Florida, Nevada and Louisiana are all averaging more than 20 new cases per 100,000 people a day, according to the CDC, compared to a national average of almost eight, although vaccination rates in those states were now increasing, Zients said. The rise in cases has also been linked to the highly transmissible Delta variant of Covid-19, which now accounts for more than half of new infections, according to the CDC.
Walensky’s warning comes as some US counties and cities have brought back pandemic-era guidelines to guard against further outbreaks, particularly those linked to the Delta variant. Los Angeles on Thursday announced it would reinstate its mask mandate this weekend, requiring individuals to again wear masks indoors, regardless of vaccination status.
The decision comes barely a month after the county, alongside the rest of California, lifted the restriction on June 15 for fully vaccinated residents. Chicago this week placed restrictions on unvaccinated travellers from Missouri and Arkansas, which are hotspots for the Delta variant.
Arkansas, Missouri, Florida, Nevada and Louisiana are all averaging more than 20 new cases per 100,000 people a day, according to the CDC, compared to a national average of almost eight, although vaccination rates in those states were now increasing, Zients said. The rise in cases has also been linked to the highly transmissible Delta variant of Covid-19, which now accounts for more than half of new infections, according to the CDC.
Walensky’s warning comes as some US counties and cities have brought back pandemic-era guidelines to guard against further outbreaks, particularly those linked to the Delta variant. Los Angeles on Thursday announced it would reinstate its mask mandate this weekend, requiring individuals to again wear masks indoors, regardless of vaccination status.
The decision comes barely a month after the county, alongside the rest of California, lifted the restriction on June 15 for fully vaccinated residents. Chicago this week placed restrictions on unvaccinated travellers from Missouri and Arkansas, which are hotspots for the Delta variant.
