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Fauci Finally Admits Vaccines Don’t Protect Against Serious Covid or Death

Where does he say that?

From the transcript (emphasis mine):

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci

I think when all is said and done, as we get through boosting the overwhelming majority of the people who’ve been primarily vaccinated, we’re going to say, just like other vaccines that require multiple doses — like hepatitis B, like some of the childhood vaccinations — that it is likely. And I’m making my own personal projection as an immunologist and infectious disease person, we don’t have the proof yet.

The proof of the pudding will be after you get people vaccinated and boosted, and we have a greater durability of protection that doesn’t wane as easily, we may realize that, you know, we did a prime and a boost because we were in a medical emergency, a public health emergency. We didn’t have the time to do an extensive phase 2a, phase 2b study to see whether two doses were better than three, whether six months was better than eight months. We just did with what we had, and quite frankly, it was life saving for millions of people.

So that’s why, I think, if we continue to get as many people vaccinated who are not yet vaccinated at all, and aggressively boost the people who have been vaccinated, I think you’re going to see a different pattern than what we saw with the other surges over the past multiple months.

Michael Barbaro

So what you’re describing is a two-pronged strategy here. Of course, getting more and more people vaccinated, and boosting as many people who have been vaccinated as possible.

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci

I think, Michael, that the boosting is going to be an absolutely essential component of our response. Not a bonus, not a luxury, but an absolute essential part of the program.

Michael Barbaro

But you know that many people you work with, especially at the F.D.A., have said that they are skeptical of boosting. I’ve listened to some of this audio of the panels and the battling over this. It’s not a consensus in that world at all, that boosting is going to become essential. Do you want it to be or are you making that case to people?

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci

It isn’t what I want and what I don’t want. It’s what it is. So it has nothing to do with my desires. It’s just looking at what I think are going to turn out to be the facts. In that, if you look at what has happened in countries that have been more ahead of us, temporally, you see that it wanes. And it’s waning to the point where you’re seeing more and more people getting breakthrough infections, and more and more of those people who are getting breakthrough infections are winding up in the hospital.

So I think it would be a misrepresentation, Michael, to say that the vaccines don’t work. I don’t think we’ve given that the full rein to prove what it is that you need to make them work. And that’s the reason why I say, again, it’s my scientific opinion and projection that boosters will be an essential part of the protection.