Posted on 08/08/2020 9:56:15 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
An approved coronavirus vaccine could end up being effective only 50-60% of the time, meaning public health measures will still be needed to keep the pandemic under control, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top US infectious diseases expert, said on Friday.
"We don't know yet what the efficacy might be. We don't know if it will be 50% or 60%. I'd like it to be 75% or more," Fauci said in a webinar hosted by Brown University. "But the chances of it being 98% effective is not great, which means you must never abandon the public health approach."
The novel coronavirus has infected nearly 5 million people in the United States and killed more than 160,000.
Lockdown measures imposed to keep the virus from spreading have devastated the economy, which suffered its biggest blow since the Great Depression in the second quarter, with gross domestic product dropping at its steepest pace in at least 73 years.
As infections have spiked around the country after states started to open up, public health experts, including Fauci, have stressed the importance of steps that each American can take, including social distancing, washing hands and wearing masks.
Fauci said on Friday that studies of Moderna Inc's COVID-19 vaccine could produce definitive data in November or December of this year.
He told Reuters earlier this week that he expects tens of millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses to be available by early 2021, and a billion doses by the end of that year.
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I have more faith in Hydroxychloroquine and zinc.
Does “being effective only 50-60% of the time” mean that you still get COVID that fraction of the time, or you still get a serious case of COVID that fraction of the time. If this stupid shot turns COVID into the sniffles, that’s what we should define as effective.
It’s surprising he’s willing to go out on climb by saying it’s effective at all without the requisite dozens of peer reviewed quintuple blind studies that he himself -or some organization he directly profits from- performs!
Someone needs to lock Fauci in a closet.
PLEASE!
SOMEBODY!
Shut that Bozo up!
Hey PGalt, thanks for the info! Dr. Andy Wakefield is a hero and a half. Jones has an excellent interview of Andy. I’ll be watching the movie.
Trump has declared war on pharma and has warned that he needs to lie low for a bit. Something is up. Something big.
We're getting blah, blah, blahed to death.
You still wear the mask but distancing is reduced to 3 ft. What a farce we’re being dealt.
You’re very welcome. Yes, it sure seems like something BIG is coming. I wish, hope and pray for the best...although the swamp is YUGE...perhaps waaaay bigger than even POTUS thought.
Imagine that you or I were SUPEREVIL and wanted to topple the U.S.A....and had the best SUPEREVIL minds in the world working with you for a NWO.
“Inside the Criminal Mind” - Stanton Samenow
“Without Conscience” - Dr. Robert Hare
A couple of good resources. There are many more.
The long arc of history is not bending toward more freedom at this point in time. POTUS has the right ideas from everything that I have read, heard and seen. The previous administration the most EVIL in our history. BY FAAAAR. Look at the individuals in it. It’s why we are at this mess right now.
This is not a particularly controversial statement. It is foolhardy to believe that a vaccine will be 100% effective.
It is all about the control.
Not of the virus but of the world, its wealth, resources, and power.
It is foolhardy to believe Dr. Fauci.
I pass within three feet of about ten people almost everytime I buy groceries.
There's that phrase again, "public health" and "public health approach". Fauci uses it. All the big tech companies use it. All the globalists use it. It's the Public Health Deep State and it's thoroughly corrupt.
Never mind the private sector health approach.
And I see that Fauci is touting the falseDeep State idea that only a vaccine can give you herd immunity.
Nevermind, antibodies and T cell immunity.
A vaccine sponsored by Genocide Bill Gates and approved by the death merchants of WHO .... what is there to not like? /s/
fauci just keeps making shit up ... he’s got no idea what he’s talking about ...
Chicken Little says what?
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