Saskatchewan Health Authority tweets out misinformation on vaccines

Greg P. | 8:01 AM on October 19, 2021

The Saskatchewan Health Authority in Canada wants you to believe that your “risk from COVID-19 is not determined by age, fitness level or community…your risk is determined by vaccine status. ~78% of all new cases & hospitalizations in #Sask in Sep were unvaccinated or partially vaccinated people”:

Your risk from COVID-19 is not determined by age, fitness level or community…your risk is determined by vaccine status. ~78% of all new cases & hospitalizations in #Sask in Sep were unvaccinated or partially vaccinated people. https://t.co/T0HXlmCUZs

— Saskatchewan Health Authority (@SaskHealth) October 18, 2021

This is what’s known as a “lie”:

Wait, what? https://t.co/9Rt8VaBNQP

— 🎃jimtreacher.substack.com👻 (@jtLOL) October 19, 2021

We get that they want to get more people to get vaccinated, but why not just be honest?

This is disingenuous. To be clear: Yes! get vaccinated if you're eligible. But to ignore something like age (which is the biggest risk factor for severe disease) is not being truthful. https://t.co/H95QKUtpko

— 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐤𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢 (@TorontoIDDoc) October 19, 2021

But, of course, Twitter doesn’t fact-check tweets like this one:

This doesn't have one of those Twitter "misinformation" flags which proves what a joke their misinformation flags are. https://t.co/YSXpVZaaEb

— Doug Powers (@ThePowersThatBe) October 19, 2021

And it was a nice touch that they shut down replies on it, too: