During a Department of Health and Human Services discussion on advancing equity, US Health Secretary Xavier Becerra claimed vaccines are twice as deadly for people of colour.

“Secondly, by having better data, we can do a couple of things. Vaccines — a year ago today — by the way, we know that vaccines are killing people of colour, Blacks, Latinos, Indigenous people, at about two times the rate of White Americans,” Becerra said.

He continued, calmly touting the high uptake in vaccine acceptance in various non-White communities across the US.

“So on vaccines, last year, we saw that about two-thirds of White American adults had received at least one shot of vaccine. That was just over barely 50 per cent for Black Americans and Latinos at that particular time.”

“So, again, we got to work. Today, a year later, over 80 per cent of White American adults have received at least one shot. Over 80 per cent of Black American adults have received at least one shot. Over 80 per cent of Latino Americans have received at least one vaccine shot,” he continued, failing to mention Asian Americans.

Becerra likely meant to say that ‘COVID is twice as deadly for people of colour,’ but I’m not going to put words into his mouth.

However, politicians and celebrities mixing up ‘COVID’ with ‘the vaccine’ regarding what’s really killing people has become an increasingly common and disturbing gaffe, which many consider a Freudian slip.

As Healthline explains, “According to psychoanalytic thought, you can trace these slip-ups back to unconscious desires and urges, whether those are things you actually want to say but feel unable to express [or] unrealized feelings that haven’t yet entered your realm of conscious thought.”

Other politicians, such as New Zealand PM Ardern, while not admitting that vaccines may lead to death, have at least been forced to disclose they have side effects. Though, she states these are “a sign that the vaccine’s doing what it should.”