Joe Rogan on covid: what the evidence says · JRE #2223
SUBJECT: COVID
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Who's apologized for being incorrect about what did Rachel Maddow ever apologize for telling everybody that if you get the COVID vaccine you're never gonna get COVID it won't the virus stops with you
What the evidence says 01 / RECORD
On March 29, 2021, on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show," CDC Director Rochelle Walensky told Maddow that "our data from the CDC today suggests... that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don't get sick," and Maddow herself introduced the segment by saying the finding meant "now we know that the vaccines work well enough that the virus stops with every vaccinated person." These statements were based on a CDC study of frontline workers released the same week showing mRNA vaccines were about 90% effective at preventing infection when fully immunized, not 100%. Within days, a CDC spokesperson clarified that fully vaccinated people could still contract and possibly spread the virus, and outside virologists publicly said the "do not carry"/"don't get sick" framing overstated the underlying data. No public correction or apology from Maddow specifically for this framing has been documented. Rogan's paraphrase that Maddow said people would "never" get COVID and the virus "stops with you" is a rough but not baseless characterization of on-air statements made in that segment: the word "never" itself was not used, and the overstatement originated primarily with the CDC director's phrasing, though Maddow's own on-air framing echoed the same "stops with every vaccinated person" claim. Status: misleading paraphrase of a real, walked-back overstatement.