NBC News has a new article out titled, “Breakthrough Covid cases are on the rise among the vaccinated” and this is how the tweet looks if you share the article to Twitter from NBCNews.com:
Breakthrough Covid cases are on the rise among the vaccinated https://t.co/kRL44EfepW via @nbcnews
— Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) July 30, 2021
The subhead for the article is, “The 125,682 ‘breakthrough’ cases in 38 states represent less than .08 percent of the 164.2 million-plus people fully vaccinated since January.”
Exclusive: At least 125,000 fully vaccinated Americans tested positive for Covid https://t.co/8MCPVw5orl via @strickdc
— Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) July 30, 2021
Denominators. How do they work?
Journos skipped the day in math class when they covered denominators https://t.co/IahsZ8GXtD
— Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) July 30, 2021
NBC News’s Allan Smith tweeted it out a more accurate version:
Less than 0.08% of vaccinated Americans have tested positive for breakthrough infections
https://t.co/TUMm2rJ5Po— Allan Smith (@akarl_smith) July 30, 2021
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But Gary Grumbach, another NBC News journo, added the death number without context, making him bad at math and a hack:
At least 125,000 fully vaccinated Americans have tested positive for COVID and 1,400 of those have died, according to data collected by @NBCNews. https://t.co/qklnl6qymB
— Gary Grumbach (@GaryGrumbach) July 30, 2021
It’s like a “Choose your own adventure!”
Alternate headline:
"Something totally expected is happening with vaccinated patients"https://t.co/Mquute7vMY
— Chris Vanderveen (@chrisvanderveen) July 30, 2021
And we can’t wait until journos go one step further and calculate the chance of death:
When you're vaccinated and have a 0.0007% chance of dying of COVID. pic.twitter.com/PlvgLiTRoI
— Frank J. Fleming (@IMAO_) July 30, 2021
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