Opinion piece on fauxi, link goes to Newsweek;
How Fauci Fooled America | Opinion
When the pandemic hit, America needed someone to turn to for advice. The media and public naturally looked to Dr.
Anthony Fauci—the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, an esteemed laboratory immunologist and one of President
Donald Trump's chosen COVID advisers. Unfortunately, Dr. Fauci got major epidemiology and public health questions wrong. Reality and scientific studies have now caught up with him.
Here are the key issues:
Natural immunity. By
pushing vaccine mandates, Dr. Fauci ignores naturally acquired immunity among the COVID-recovered, of which there are more than
45 million in the United States. Mounting evidence indicates that natural immunity is stronger and longer lasting than vaccine-induced immunity. [Eds.: Long-term trends are still unclear. A
recent study reached the opposite conclusion, but was
criticized by an author of this op-ed.] In a
study from Israel, the vaccinated were 27 times more likely to get symptomatic COVID than the unvaccinated who had recovered from a prior infection.
We have known about natural immunity from disease at least since the
Athenian Plague in 430 BC. Pilots, truckers and longshoremen know about it, and
nurses know it better than anyone. Under Fauci's mandates, hospitals are
firing heroic nurses who recovered from COVID they contracted while caring for patients. With their superior immunity, they can safely care for the oldest and frailest patients with even lower transmission risk than the vaccinated.
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