Fact check: Candace Owens falsely claims CDC proposed putting high-risk people in camps during the p
I propose putting dangerous folks like Owens into space--a one way ticket.
Fact check: Candace Owens falsely claims CDC proposed putting high-risk people in camps during the pandemic
By Holmes Lybrand, CNN
Updated 6:19 PM ET, Wed August 11, 2021
Washington (CNN)R ight-wing media figures have reveled in ridiculing the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's response to the pandemic, whether over changing guidance, confusing statements or seeming contradictions.
Some of these attacks, however, are based on pure fantasies.
Candace Owens, who hosts a show with the right-wing media company the Daily Wire, told her 2.8 million followers on Twitter that the CDC wrote a paper on putting certain people in camps during the pandemic.
"The CDC actually put together a document to discuss putting high risk people into camps to 'shield' low risk people from them," Owens wrote, with a link to the supposed document on the CDC's website. "No— this is not a joke, and yes, every single person who has made a reference to 1930's Germany is vindicated."
Facts First: This is utter nonsense. The CDC guidance -- from July of last year -- addresses humanitarian settings such as refugee camps and how to help protect high-risk individuals from Covid-19 in those camps.......................
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