Fact-check: Are you 17 times more likely to be hospitalized for COVID-19 if unvaccinated?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

White House press secretary Jen Psaki: “You are 17 times more likely to go to the hospital if you’re not vaccinated, 20 times more likely to die.”

PolitiFact's ruling: True

Here's why: On Jan. 10, when the U.S. reported 1.35 million new COVID-19 cases — the highest daily total for any country on record — White House press secretary Jen Psaki faced pushback regarding President Joe Biden’s assertion that the pandemic is, at this point, "a pandemic of the unvaccinated."

During a press briefing that day, Fox News reporter Peter Doocy implied that Biden’s characterization was inaccurate.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-17-times-more-170012552.html

[Ziggysmom]

1. And the Faux News flunky keeps presenting his butt over and over again for Jen Psaki

to kick. You would think he'd get tired of having a sore butt all the time?

[MustLoveBeagles]

2. I guess he's a masochist

[bluesbassman]

3. Possibly. My money is on that he's just a garden variety idiot.*

*Faux News requirement.

[Rhiannon12866]

4. On The 11th Hour on MSNBC the other night, that's what the doctor they had on said

He said if you are fully vaccinated, you are 17 times less likely to be hospitalized - and 20 times less likely to die of Covid.

[Midnight Writer]

5. Local rural hospital has 39 Covid patients, 8 in ICU. Not a single one of them has their booster.

By the way, there are only 9 ICU beds in the entire 6 county area, so if you have a heart attack, stroke, or traumatic injury, good luck to you. Mister and Missus "I did my own research" has already taken the bed.