Friday, during oral arguments over President Biden’s private sector vaccine mandate, Sotomayor claimed that the Omicron variant is so severe that “we have over 100,000 children, which we’ve never had before, in serious condition, many on ventilators.” Official data indicate there are 5,000 children in hospitals who have COVID-19.
“What do you guys think about COVID misinformation coming from the Supreme Court and Sonia Sotomayor’s false claim that over 100,000 children are in serious condition, many on ventilators?” Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy asked Psaki Monday.
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“Well, I’m not going to speak to Supreme Court arguments or statements made in those arguments,” Psaki replied.
“But I will tell you that what is at stake here is our effort to protect health workers and most importantly, protect patients, with the CMS rule [that requires most healthcare workers to be vaccinated] and also to make workplaces safer with the OSHA rule [the private sector mandate], which we have confidence in our legal argument for. So I will leave it to them to decide, but that’s what’s being argued now.”
Sotomayor referenced the inaccurate child hospitalization data as justices weighed the legality of Biden’s vaccine requirements. The OSHA rule would require companies with 100 or more workers to adopt policies requiring their staff to be vaccinated or let vaccine refusers keep their jobs by submitting to weekly testing.
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RealClearPolitics reporter Philip Wegmann pivoted back to Sotomayor’s claims later in the briefing, noting that Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared Coronavirus misinformation a “public health crisis” in July as part of a broader Biden Administration push to encourage people to get vaccinated.
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“Not long ago in this room, the surgeon general told us that COVID misinformation was a public health threat,” Wegmann said. “I’m wondering if the White House is at all concerned given Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor’s remarks about the Omicron variant that maybe the danger is being overhyped and your message is not getting out?” “I think I just addressed this,” Psaki expressed. “Didn’t I answer his question?”
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Wegmann pressed: “Are you worried that there’s misinformation that is being spread so much so that even a sitting Supreme Court justice has an inaccurate picture of things?” “Again, I’m just not going to weigh in on a specific legal argument made in the court,” Psaki insisted.
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