Fauci also said during an interview on NBC News' "Today" show Thursday, that:
"Inevitably, there will be a time when we'll have to give boosts to the general population."
As far as furiously moving goalposts goes, Fauci admittred earlier in the week that the Delta variant presents the additional problem that vaccinated people can also transmit the virus to someone else. That has led to the CDC revising its mask guidelines recently. But, he stressed:
“The vaccines are still doing what you originally want them to do -- to keep you out of the hospital to prevent you from getting seriously ill.”
Actually, what the CDC "originally" wanted the vaccines to do, was to prevent those who were jabbed from infecting others. Only later did we learn that too was a fabrication.
Perhaps the most 'new' science is the following...
"No vaccine, at least not within this category, is going to have an indefinite amount of protection."
Fauci comments come as debate grows over “breakthrough” infections among fully vaccinated people and whether approval should be given for booster shots. On Sunday, Israel, the first nation to roll out booster shots widely, said it had given more than 420,000 third shots to people 60 and over. At least 14 Israelis have already caught Covid-19 after having been injected with a booster shot, suggesting that the booster shot will be the first of many, and will likely last all the way through the mid-term elections because, well, mail-in ballots next November.
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vaccine fast tracked into Phase 1 testing just two days after Moderna received the COVID-19 genetic sequence from China...this meant that he had already been working with Moderna to understand their new technology...prepared the pathway for needed approval...and then exhibited "Warp Speed" in making it happen...hardly the work of some incompetent, desk-jockey bureaucrat .
Then, as you continue with your mission to defame Dr. Fauci for no good reason, I posted an excerpt from Walter Isaacson's book "Code Breaker" that highlighted Dr. Fauci's initiative to break a critical FDA logjam that was keeping universities, hospitals and private firms from developing and manufacturing critically needed COVID testing kits...just two days after making his call to exactly the right person...i.e. he knew just what needed to be said, and to whom, to get things done ...even though the President didn't want to see any testing that would, heaven forbid, show actual infections...shame on Fauci for not following the 'wisdom' of the perfect genius.
But carry on, as I know you will, backing Donald Trump, rather than a world renowned Infectious Disease specialist who actually knows what he's doing.
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For refusing to acknowledge the clear and convincing evidence that hydroxychloroquine/zinc/azithromycin, when given within 5-7 days upon symptom onset, is a virtual cure. He is guilty of the greatest case of malpractice in U.S. history.
involves "Hydroxy" ;-)...sure enough, I was right.
We've been over this so many, many times...I think the board has made up its mind on this by now.
a long time ago. Yr are a waste of post space
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the board expert on viruses, the immune system and vaccines.
Sell us the HCQ again.
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This is something none of you trumpies haven’t answered correctly yet.
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it is that makes them effective.
I’ve asked this question to you multiple times and you have yet to answer.
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Those lime popsicles don't pay for themselves.
In one of the most appalling examples of Big Tech silencing scientists who refuse to withhold their criticisms of the mRNA technology behind the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccines, Dr. Robert Malone, a pioneer who helped develop mRNA vaccine technology, saw the credit for his contribution to medicine effectively erased from the Internet by Wikipedia after he raised concerns about potential long-term autoimmune issues and other complications potentially arising from mRNA jabs.
He has also shared other medical heresies, including the possibility that 'imperfect' vaccines might actually help foster more virulent COVID variants due to a phenomenon called 'ADE' - antibody-dependent enhancement. Essentially, what doesn't kill the virus makes it stronger. In retaliation for sharing these views, Dr. Malone was ridiculed by colleagues as a conspiracist and an "anti-vaxxer".
Dr. Malone
But earlier this week, Dr. Malone saw his views subtly vindicated by an unexpected source: a British scientist and academic named Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, who is the director of the Oxford Vaccine Group. During a briefing, Sir Pollard warned Parliament that the UK likely won't ever achieve herd immunity, thanks to the delta variant.
In remarks that risked undermining the government's vaccination campaign, Sir Pollard, a professor of pediatric infection and immunity, warned Parliament on Tuesday that achieving herd immunity is likely "not a possibility" thanks to variants like delta. Recently, a group of scientists estimated that the threshold for herd immunity might now be as high as 90% due to the delta variant. According to Pollard, we're learning for the first time that herd immunity is magical thinking - and has always been magical thinking.
Since those who are vaccinated can still be infected by variants, "there is virtually nothing the UK can do" to eradicate COVID completely.
"We know very clearly with coronavirus that this current variant, the Delta variant, will still infect people who have been vaccinated, and that does mean that anyone who's still unvaccinated, at some point, will meet the virus," Pollard said.
He said it was unlikely that herd immunity will ever be reached, saying the next variant of the novel coronavirus will be "perhaps even better at transmitting in vaccinated populations."
Pollard also shared what sounded like a subtle criticism of masks by saying that "We don't have anything which will stop that transmission to other people." As an example, he pointed to Israel, which saw new cases and hospitalizations nearly disappear before the new variant took hold, causing cases and hospitalizations to surge once again. Now, there have even been a handful of patients who have tested positive even after receiving their third dose of the Pfizer jab (which the US has only just approved for a third dose as well).
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But I could, because I am not a vaccine pussy.
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And maybe because I’m less interested in my kids having “long haul” covid symptoms, which is substantially higher % of victims.
You’re a plague rat. A menace.
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all of us from getting polio? What about the measles vaccine. So I give the drug companies credit for rushing these vaccines to market and keeping us out of hospitals. It’s the talking heads on TV, like drama queen Fauci, that are repeatedly making claims and statements that are proven wrong. And yet we still must believe everything the guy says? He has been wrong about almost everything he says.
Most are simply moving on with their lives, which, of course, enrages that crowd.
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Feel free to explain how that is whataboutism. Granted, I know that teaching is not your forte on this forum. You prefer to argue from authority and then retreat.
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