PRESIDENT Joe Biden made yet another gaffe on Friday, this time referring to the 350 million Americans who have been vaccinated despite the fact that there aren’t that many people living in the United States.
Employing the often-used adage of this is a “pandemic of the unvaccinated,” Biden said that the “350 million” who are already vaccinated are safe from the coronavirus.
“This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. So we have to get more people vaccinated,” he said on Friday morning before checking his notes for the incorrect number.
“Well over – what’s the number again, I’ll remind myself – 350 million Americans have already been vaccinated. They’re doing fine.”
According to the most recent Census data released in April of this year, there are only 331 million Americans living in the country.
Biden was delivering remarks regarding the July Jobs report from the White House in which he made the error.
He could have accidentally been referring to the number of vaccine doses that were administered in the country, which is about 350 million.
However, the true number of vaccinated individuals is 166 million, or about half of the country’s population.
Biden’s gaffes are a well-known phenomenon.
In a recent incident, he forgot the South African president’s name and had to be reminded by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
In another, he accidentally referred to Syria as Libya three times.
