Mother Jones: Anti-Vaxxers Want You to Believe Vaccines Don’t Work Against the Delta Variant. They’re Wrong.
The Delta variant is here. And as it continues its spread across the globe, the media has been in a frenzy. Last week, for instance, reports circulated about vaccinated individuals in Israel who became infected with the new variant. We saw headlines about the rise in COVID cases driven by Delta in the UK, and news of six vaccinated people dying of COVID in the Seychelles. Meanwhile, Los Angeles and the World Health Organization are advising the vaccinated to return to masking indoors.
The news, frankly, is scary—and confusing. Making matters worse, anti-vaccine groups, always the opportunists, have begun to weaponize the confusion for their own gain. Some of their claims are just flat-out wrong: One bit of disinformation making the rounds is that people who are vaccinated are at a higher risk of dying from COVID caused by the Delta variant—an unsubstantiated assertion that has been debunked.