Posted on 12/26/2020 11:34:30 AM PST by Hostage
ec 24 (Reuters) - Herd immunity against the novel coronavirus could require vaccination rates approaching as high as 90%, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the most prominent U.S. infectious disease expert, said in an interview published on Thursday.
More than 1 million Americans have received a first dose of a vaccine since Dec. 14, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, or only about 0.3% of the population.
Fauci, who is advising both President Donald Trump and President-elect Joe Biden on the pandemic, acknowledged that he had incrementally increased his estimates from earlier in the year, when he tended to say only 60% to 70% would need to be inoculated for herd immunity to be reached.
"We need to have some humility here," Fauci told the New York Times here. "We really don't know what the real number is. I think the real range is somewhere between 70 to 90 percent. But, I'm not going to say 90 percent."
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1. Fauci has not seen a patient in more than 30 years. He is a federal bureaucrat selling himself out to influencers.
2. Fauci is a longtime minion of Microsoft Founder Bill Gates.
3. Gates is from a Eugenicist family believing all problems are due to overpopulation and the solution is to depopulate the world.
4. Bill Gates has no medical training. He has no science training. He pushes vaccines including those with 'micro dots' which are micro sized RFID elements bonded to vaccine molecules and allow a human being to be read like a bar code detailing their identity, their health & vaccine record, their social credit score.
There's plenty more but taking in just the above, now go back and read the headline:
"Fauci says herd immunity could require nearly 90% to get coronavirus vaccine"
5. Gates is one of, if not the most hated, people on the planet.
His comments came as the country marks grim new daily milestones while contending with the world’s deadliest outbreak: it reported more than 3,000 deaths for the second consecutive day on Wednesday. The U.S. death toll reached 326,333 by midnight on Wednesday, according to Reuters data.
That same day, more Americans flew than on any other day since the pandemic emerged in March, with 1,191,123 passengers passing through airport checkpoints, according to data from the U.S. Transportation Security Administration.
The data suggested many were disregarding public health experts’ advice to avoid traveling to celebrate Christmas Day on Friday. Fauci and other experts say social distancing will be required deep into 2021 as vaccines are slowly rolled out.
The number of travelers was down from 2019, when 1,937,235 flew on Dec. 23. Wednesday’s traffic exceeded the previous pandemic-era high set on Nov. 29, the Sunday after the Thanksgiving holiday, when 1,176,091 people passed through TSA checkpoints, preceding new surges in coronavirus cases in many states.
Health care workers, elderly nursing home residents, elected officials and firefighters are among those receiving the vaccines first. Most Americans have been told it could be six months or more before they are eligible for the shots.
Fauci, who was appointed director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 1984, said in the interview that he had become more willing to reveal his beliefs as polls show Americans were becoming somewhat less skeptical about the new vaccines. The more infectious a disease is, the higher the rate of vaccination is required to reach a threshold of herd immunity, in which its spread is contained.
“When polls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I was saying herd immunity would take 70 to 75 percent,” Fauci, who turned 80 on Thursday, told the Times.
“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.’”
kaching!
You kick it off, Phony Tony
By setting an unattainable goal (90% compliance) you guarantee failure, assure that the lockdowns will never end, and provide a ready-made excuse to escalate the extinction of any remaining rights/freedoms.
Just kill me now, willya?
I don't think he'll ever stop.
I don't think he knows how to stop...
This is a plandemic. The plan is to kill off as many of us as possible.
Tune in next week for the next exciting episode of “As the Fauci Turns.”
OR:
90% either to receive the vaccine, have the virus and recover, or be exposed and never develop the virus.
What’s going to shut that guy up?
More lies about Science from Scientists
We “need to follow the Science”.
Folks, here is Dr Fauci who is, ahem, Director of NIAID in 1984. He oversees an extensive research portfolio of basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose, and treat established infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, respiratory infections, blah blah blah.
Interviewer: “Dr Fauci, how much do we need for herd immunity?”
Dr Fauci: “As always, we got to follow the Science. So Science-wise, the answer depends entirely on opinion polls. Polls that use Scientific polling methods, of course. Follow the Science”
Interviewer: “Thank you Dr. Fauci. Next folks, Scientists will tell us all about global warming, evolution, string theory, peak oil, economics, the works. Always follow the Science.”
You want an honest answer....
Let’s see...90%...hmmmm...!
Mandatory vaccination required for all citizens under potential POTUS Biden...?
WHO CARES WHAT PHONY TONY HAS TO SAY...........
Isn’t Fauci to be on Biden’s team as a health expert or some such thing. God help us all IF Biden becomes president.
Fauci is doing his best to bring all citizens together to get shots, follow orders, etc.
I know...but beside that... what’s going to get him to shut the f up?
As always, Falsi is just making shit up as he goes along.
Someone had threatened to behead Fauci recently. What’s the status of his head- attached or detached ?
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