Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Democrat-approved 'science' in 'trust the science,' appears to have just admitted to lying about COVID-19 herd immunity in order to goad more people into taking the vaccine, according to a new report in the New York Times.
At issue is the percentage of the population which must require resistance to the coronavirus - through infection or vaccination - in order for the disease to disappear.
Early into the pandemic, Fauci repeatedly claimed '60-70%' herd immunity was required to achieve herd immunity. Beginning around a month ago, however, Fauci's estimate drifted higher - to "70, 75 percent," and more recently telling CNBC "75, 80, 85 percent" and "75 to 80-plus percent."
When asked about it, Fauci essentially said he lied for political purposes due to vaccine skeptics.
In a telephone interview the next day, Dr. Fauci acknowledged that he had slowly but deliberately been moving the goal posts. He is doing so, he said, partly based on new science, and partly on his gut feeling that the country is finally ready to hear what he really thinks.
Hard as it may be to hear, he said, he believes that it may take close to 90 percent immunity to bring the virus to a halt — almost as much as is needed to stop a measles outbreak.
Asked about Dr. Fauci’s conclusions, prominent epidemiologists said that he might be proven right. The early range of 60 to 70 percent was almost undoubtedly too low, they said, and the virus is becoming more transmissible, so it will take greater herd immunity to stop it.
Dr. Fauci said that weeks ago, he had hesitated to publicly raise his estimate because many Americans seemed hesitant about vaccines, which they would need to accept almost universally in order for the country to achieve herd immunity.
And with polls now suggesting more Americans are willing to take the vaccines, Fauci (who said in November COVID-19 'won't be a pandemic for much longer') says he's ready to come clean.
"When polls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I was saying herd immunity would take 70 to 75 percent," he said, adding "Then, when newer surveys said 60 percent or more would take it, I thought, ‘I can nudge this up a bit,’ so I went to 80, 85."
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Yes, of course he did. Leftists will do anything their putrid brains tell them to do to gain ultimate power and control over the people. He does "love" Hitlary, ya' know. Gaaag.
I don't trust the government period.
Him and Bill Gates need imprisoned for lying to the American people. The man is no better than a witch doctor. A political hack and a national security risk.
He should be in Jail for his part in helping the Chinesse give this to th world what is coming next will be worse.
Dr. Fauci's credibility is in the tank... He has lied so many times regarding the science on the COVID Pandemic that anything he says must be disregarded as science. In fact, this man is the father of the COVID 19 virus. He developed it in a CDC research project and when it became obvious that it was highly dangerous and had no medical applications the research was ordered terminated in the USA. However, Fauci, on his own, packs up the virus and sends it with all the research data to the Chinese Army weapons lab in Wuhan, China, together with 3.7 million US Dollars, to complete its development and subsequent ACCIDENTAL release into the world.
Dr. Fauci is more akin to Dr. Mengele than a Dr. Livingston... his reckless attitude and lies have done everything to destroy our economy, and add to the risk of transmission... He has denied the efficacy of promising and viable treatments and prophylactics recognized as possible regimes for treatment and prevention early in the pandemic. It is reported he, his family, and friends in the Pharmaceutical companies have patents on several of the drugs being used to combat this virus and on the virus itself. If this is true there is a major CONFLICT OF INTEREST which may well be CRIMINAL in nature, and the President needs to fire this man and have him investigated for several possible crimes. He certainly should not be permitted to be a spokesman for our pandemic program.
Why wouldn't Fauci lie? His goal was and is to protect his Chinese investments and those demorats that are part of his overall schemes. Why Trump ever trust this fraud is baffling to me.
Sure, because this crookand fraud owns patents on every single part of this scamdemic that began in the rotten WHO, which put out 2 separate codes for CoVid
Then, Our unconstitutional NIH put out bribes for diagnosing CoVid, $19,000. and passed that order on to Medicare. Then, the fix increased with orders to each state that if they shoved ventilators on to CoVid patients yhey would reimburse from $36,000 up to $53,000, depending on state. My doctor told me this. he has many, many contacts.