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Fact-checking Biden s boast about equitable COVID-19 vaccination rate for seniors
Victoria Knight, PolitiFact
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Vice President Kamala Harris looks on as President Joe Biden delivers remarks on COVID-19 response and the vaccination program, from the Rose Garden of the White House, Washington, D.C., on Thursday, May 13, 2021. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP, Contributor / TNS
The claim: “People over 65 years of age, over 80 percent, have now been vaccinated, and 66 percent fully vaccinated. And there’s virtually no difference between white, Black, Hispanic, Asian American.” President Joe Biden
Biden has claimed multiple times that the COVID-19 vaccination rate for people 65 and older is equal between white people and people of color.
Biden boasts about equitable senior vaccination rate by race without data to back it up
During May 3 remarks on the American Families Plan, President Joe Biden boasted that there was not much disparity in the vaccination rates for white Americans and Americans of color who are at least 65. And what s happening now is all the talk about how people were not going to get shots, they were not going to be involved look at what that was we were told that was most likely to be among people over 65 years of age, said Biden. But now people over 65 years of age, over 80%, have now been vaccinated, and 66% fully vaccinated. And there s virtually no difference between white, Black, Hispanic, Asian American.