Thu Aug 26, 2021 – 4:40 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – Political activist Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. has been hospitalized with COVID along with his wife. He is fully vaccinated but his wife is not.
He received the vaccine early in January. Jackson, a long-time liberal political activist and organizer in black communities, has urged other African-Americans to get vaccinated.
The couple “have both tested positive for the Covid-19 virus and are in Northwestern Hospital,” Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH coalition announced on August 21. Mr. Jackson has Parkinson’s disease.
An unidentified “preexisting condition” prevented his wife Jacqueline from getting the vaccine, according to the Associated Press.
Media coverage downplays vaccine criticism
Media accounts were quick to downplay criticism of the efficiency of the vaccine.
“Remember, no real medical experts have ever said that the Covid-19 vaccines would be 100% effective,” Bruce Lee at Forbes wrote.
“Experts always expected breakthrough infections to occur. A breakthrough infection is an infection in a fully vaccinated person,” he added. “Even when a breakthrough infection happens, though, immunity offered by the vaccine can still help reduce the severity of the infection.”
“Generally, public health experts strongly encourage people with existing health conditions, such
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