On June 11, The Tampa Dispatch published a post on a recent Cleveland Clinic pre-print paper which showed that individuals with previous SARS-CoV-2 infection do not get additional benefits from vaccination.
Check out the paper here: Necessity of COVID-19 vaccination in previously infected individuals
The post highlighted the conclusion of the study: Individuals who have had SARS-CoV-2 infection are unlikely to benefit from COVID-19 vaccination, and vaccines can be safely prioritized to those who have not been infected before.
In addition, a Cleveland Clinic statement that was published on June 9 was included in the post.
Facebook sent the Tampa Dispatch the following message on June 22: Independent fact-checkers at Science Feedback say information in a post shared by tampadispatch.com is missing context and could mislead people. We’ve added a notice to the post.
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Facebook included the following lengthy feedback: While the Cleveland Clinic study demonstrated that previous infection can effectively prevent COVID-19, these results don’t provide evidence that COVID-19 vaccines are useless for people who already had COVID-19, as many social media posts and articles claimed. Such a claim is unsupported and lacks important context.
Nowhere did the Tampa Dispatch say the “COVID-19 vaccines are useless for people who already had COVID-19″, just it was not likely to add additional benefit to those already infected.
