Capital Public Radio: Politifact California Podcast

By Chris Nichols Updated at 10:54 a.m. on September 24, 2021 Reports about vaccinated Americans catching COVID-19 are energizing vaccine skeptics and leading to more misinformation about efficacy and breakthrough cases. CapRadio’s PolitiFact California Reporter Chris Nichols examined the facts about breakthrough infections in this week’s Can You Handle The Truth. Nichols sat down and spoke with CapRadio’s afternoon anchor Randol White and broke everything down. This interview has been edited for clarity and length. Interview Highlights On how rare breakthrough COVID-19 cases are feeding into misinformation One example is a popular and misleading post on Instagram. It wrongly claimed that the vaccines are “the first in history to not prevent people from catching or spreading a virus” and that they only last a few months. PolitiFact found that is completely false. No vaccine is 100% effective. That’s the case for the flu vaccine and also the case for the COVID-19 vaccines. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control