Former president Bill Clinton has tested positive for COVID-19 and says he is thankful to have been vaccinated and boosted.
QUICK FACTS:
- Vaccinated and boosted former president Bill Clinton tested positive for COVID and is recovering with “mild” symptoms.
- “I’ve tested positive for Covid. I’ve had mild symptoms, but I’m doing fine overall and keeping myself busy at home,” the former president said Wednesday.
- In March 2022, Clinton’s wife Hilary also tested positive for the virus, saying she was “more grateful than ever for the protection vaccines can provide.”
- Despite having caught COVID, she urged her Twitter followers to get vaccinated and boosted as well.
BILL CLINTON URGING OTHERS TO GET VACCINATED:
“I’m grateful to be vaccinated and boosted, which has kept my case mild, and I urge everyone to do the same, especially as we move into the winter months,” Clinton said.
BACKGROUND:
- As the United States boasts a vaccination rate considered to be “above” the world average, coronavirus cases have continued to rise throughout the country. The increase in COVID infections, hospitalizations, and deaths come despite 68.7% of the population being “fully” vaccinated and 80.6% receiving at least one dose, according to recent Google data.
- In August 2021, Rochelle Walensky, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), admitted that COVID vaccines couldn’t prevent the transmission of the disease. Walensky claimed the vaccines work “exceptionally well” at keeping people from experiencing severe illness and death, but admitted they “can’t…prevent transmission.” Around the same time, the CDC quietly changed its definition of what a vaccination is on its website, switching the meaning from producing “immunity” from a specific disease to producing “protection” instead.
