<p>For the last couple of weeks, you&#8217;ve heard it everywhere: The Delta variant of COVID-19 is bad, really bad &#8212; and spreading like wildfire.</p>
<p>But the White House doesn&#8217;t like those breathless reports, not one little bit.</p>
<p>&#8220;The White House is frustrated with what it views as alarmist, and in some instances flat-out misleading, news coverage about the Delta variant,&#8221; CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/30/media/variant-media-coverage-white-house/index.html">reported</a> on Monday in a piece by reporter Oliver Darcy.</p>
<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s according to two senior Biden administration officials I spoke with Friday, both of whom requested anonymity to candidly offer their opinion on coverage of the CDC data <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/30/health/breakthrough-infection-masks-cdc-provincetown-study/index.html?utm_term=1627697028334ab5770018bcb&amp;utm_source=cnn_Reliable+Sources+-+July+30%2C+2021&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=1627697028339&amp;bt_ee=StqdcIq5JM%2BqOFTLjnAazojpQwmj%2FBxDI%2BPNZSpCpJ1XQW5NBPQMn1LRSBcob1wvErgHegFB0jHnK98xQM7cXg%3D%3D&amp;bt_ts=1627697028339" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">released</a> that suggests vaccinated Americans who become infected with the Delta coronavirus variant can infect others as easily as those who are unvaccinated,&#8221; Darcy wrote.</p>
<p>The crux of the piece is to declare that the unvaccinated &#8212; not the new virus strain &#8212; is the real problem, and even cites an unnamed source in the White House saying so.</p>
<p>&#8220;The media&#8217;s coverage doesn&#8217;t match the moment,&#8221; one of the Biden officials told Darcy. &#8220;It has been hyperbolic and frankly irresponsible in a way that hardens vaccine hesitancy. The biggest problem we have is unvaccinated people getting and spreading the virus.&#8221;</p>
<p>Darcy wrote that &#8220;poorly framed headlines and cable news chyrons wrongly suggested that vaccinated Americans are just as likely to spread the disease as unvaccinated Americans. But that isn&#8217;t quite the case.&#8221;</p>
<p>The piece cites several stories &#8212; all surprisingly in the mainstream media &#8212; with which White House officials took umbrage. For instance, The Washington Post ran a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/07/30/provincetown-covid-outbreak-vaccinated/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">headline</a> that said, &#8220;CDC study shows three-fourths of people infected in Massachusetts covid-19 outbreak were vaccinated.&#8221; Matthew Gertz, a senior fellow at the liberal Media Matters, complained on Twitter, saying: &#8220;Please don&#8217;t do this. Provincetown has one of the highest vaccination rates in the country. As vaccination rates increase the percentage of cases that are in vaccinated people NECESSARILY increases.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Please don&#39;t do this. </p>
<p>Provincetown has one of the highest vaccination rates in the country. </p>
<p>As vaccination rates increase the percentage of cases that are in vaccinated people NECESSARILY increases. <a href="https://t.co/23DurW6xfa">pic.twitter.com/23DurW6xfa</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1421170947655094277?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 30, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Darcy pointed out that &#8220;NBC News also found itself facing criticism when it published a <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/breakthrough-covid-cases-least-125-000-fully-vaccinated-americans-have-n1275500" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">story</a> with the headline, &#8216;Breakthrough Covid cases: At least 125,000 fully vaccinated Americans have tested positive.&#8217; That headline failed to note that, per NBC&#8217;s own data, that figure represented &#8216;less than .08 percent of the 164.2 million-plus people fully vaccinated since January.&#8217; NBC updated its headline later to read, &#8216;Breakthrough Covid cases: Data shows how many vaccinated Americans have tested positive.'&#8221;</p>
<p>Darcy&#8217;s piece even blasted the CDC for saying this last week, as reported by The New York Times: &#8220;The Delta variant is as contagious as chickenpox and may be spread by vaccinated people as easily as the unvaccinated, an internal C.D.C. report said.&#8221;</p>
<p>The White House quickly responded, with Ben Wakana, a member of the White House&#8217;s rapid response team, yelling on Twitter: &#8220;VACCINATED PEOPLE DO NOT TRANSMIT THE VIRUS AT THE SAME RATE AS UNVACCINATED PEOPLE AND IF YOU FAIL TO INCLUDE THAT CONTEXT YOU&#8217;RE DOING IT WRONG.&#8221;</p>

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