A lie by statistics - Covid vaccination numbers
Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2021 5:35 pm
I'm sure a lot of you have heard that the Biden administration is planning on vaccinating 100 million Americans in 100 days. According to White House press secretary Jen Psaki, this is going to outpace the Trump admin by quite a lot.
This is where things get dicey. While this is true, what she is doing is called a lie by statistics. When Trump left office we were already up to vaccinating 1 million people a day. But how can she say that she's going to do so much more if she also said that the Biden administration was going to do a million a day? Simple, the Biden admin is starting at a million and the Trump admin had to start at zero. The trickery is the fact that the average for the Trump admin between the time the vaccine came out and the time the Trump admin left is 500k(ish). Simple math averaging shows that.
The Biden administration is making a huge deal over nothing. Their covid vaccination layout plan isn't very much different than Trumps. The fact that they're saying that Trump left them with no covid plan is a flat out lie. Vaccination is going at nearly the same pace under the Biden admin as it was under the Trump admin.
This is where things get dicey. While this is true, what she is doing is called a lie by statistics. When Trump left office we were already up to vaccinating 1 million people a day. But how can she say that she's going to do so much more if she also said that the Biden administration was going to do a million a day? Simple, the Biden admin is starting at a million and the Trump admin had to start at zero. The trickery is the fact that the average for the Trump admin between the time the vaccine came out and the time the Trump admin left is 500k(ish). Simple math averaging shows that.
The Biden administration is making a huge deal over nothing. Their covid vaccination layout plan isn't very much different than Trumps. The fact that they're saying that Trump left them with no covid plan is a flat out lie. Vaccination is going at nearly the same pace under the Biden admin as it was under the Trump admin.