AP FACT CHECK: Biden is too categorical on COVID vaccines - Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden offered an absolute guarantee Wednesday that people who get their COVID-19 vaccines are completely protected from infection, sickness and death from the coronavirus.

jobs created in his first half-year in office, misleadingly stating his administration had done more than any other president.

BIDEN: “If you’re vaccinated, you’re not going to be hospitalized, you’re not going to be in the IC unit, and you’re not going to die.” — town hall.

That’s out of more than 159 million fully vaccinated Americans.

That’s not “none.” But he is correct that it is a small percentage of the more than 159 million fully vaccinated Americans.

BIDEN: “We’ve created more jobs in the first six months of our administration than any time in American history.

No president, no administration, has ever created as many jobs.” — town hall.

While Biden’s administration in the first half year as president has seen more jobs created than any other president — just over 3 million in the five months tracked by jobs reports — that’s partly because the U.S.

When calculated as a percentage of the workforce, job growth under President Jimmy Carter increased more quickly from February through June 1977 than the same five months this year: 2.2% for Carter, compared with 2.1% for Biden.

It’s true, though, that the economy is growing rapidly — it expanded at a 6.4% annual rate in the first three months of the year — and is expected to grow this year at the fastest pace since 1984.