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  • 2021-02-23 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Biden Say Minorities Don't Know How To Register Online for Vaccines? (en)
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  • On Feb. 16, 2021, U.S. President Joe Biden answered questions at a CNN town hall in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Days later, TikTok user @rein_verse posted a video that featured 22 seconds of one of his answers. It also showed @rein_verse crawling around on the ground and pretending to not know how to use technology. In the answer, Biden talked about the difficulties some minorities may face in registering online for a COVID-19 vaccination: The video was viewed more than 5 million times. One top comment read: Liberals: It's ok because Biden said it. Another said: And they said Trump was racist. A third person commented: Sadly nobody will hold him accountable for this. If Trump would have said it there would have been riots. While the 22-second video was a genuine moment from the CNN town hall program, it was missing several minutes of context. His answer was given to Dr. Dessie Levy, a woman of color who asked a specific question about racial disparities in health care. She mentioned to Biden that relatively small percentages of minorities, in particular Black and Hispanic people, have received COVID-19 vaccines thus far. An analysis from The Associated Press confirmed this. Levy asked Biden to elaborate his plans for solving the problem. The question begins at the 13:49 mark in this video. The portion from the TikTok video is bolded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=829&v=uKpyD7i-C0o CNN moderator Anderson Cooper then asked a follow-up question. This led Biden, who is 78 years old, to suggest that even he would have trouble, given how the technology was initially rolled out, figuring out how to register online for a vaccination: In his full response to Levy's question, Biden appeared to be referencing real health care data. On Feb. 8, 2021, for instance, a story from The Conversation laid out the facts on race and health disparities similar to those mentioned during the town hall. The article was written by three researchers who study health disparities: In sum, a 22-second TikTok video showed only a small part of a much larger question and answer, omitting the full context of his remarks and distorting the point he was makking. Moreover, Biden's answer appeared to invoke actual research data that revealed disparities, including the lack of internet access, in minority communities that had fallen behind in receiving vaccines. (en)
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