Senate Marco Rubio on Sunday accused U.S. epidemiologist Anthony Fauci of lying about the effectiveness of masks and misrepresenting information about the number of people who need to be vaccinated in order to secure U.S. herd immunity against COVID-19.
‘Dr. Fauci lied about masks in March[.] “Dr. Fauci distorted the vaccination needed for herd immunity,” Rubio, R-Fla., Said in a tweet. It’s not just him. Many of the elite bubbles believe that the American public does not know what is good for them ‘so they should be deceived into’ doing the right thing ‘. “
Rubio’s comment on the vaccines probably drew attention to an interview Fauci gave to the New York Times about public health officials, which quietly shifts the percentage of the American public who believe they should receive the vaccine to an ‘immunity of the flock ‘.
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“When polls say that only half of all Americans will take a vaccine, I said the herd’s immunity would take 70 to 75%,” Fauci was quoted as saying by the newspaper. “When newer surveys said 60% or more would take it, I thought, ‘I can do this a little bit,’ so I went to 80, 85.”
He continues: “We must have humility here … We really do not know what the real number is. I think the real range is between 70 and 90%. But I am not going to say 90%.”
The remark sparked anger against Fauci for allegedly not associating with Americans.
“When you can not just trust ‘science’ because the scientists keep lying to you and then say, ‘Oh, that was just a noble lie, sorry about that,'” Ross Douthat, columnist for the New York Times , said about his paper’s reporting.
“We need to realize that we need to be humble and realize what we do not know. These are pure estimates,” Fauci told CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday about the New York Times interview. “The calculations I made … it’s a series … The reason I started saying 70-75 … it was really based on calculations and pure extrapolations of measles.”
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Fauci also said that the increase in what he said in public by about 10% is not very large. He went on to say ‘this is a bit of it’ when asked more directly if he weighed in on what he said in public, adding: ‘I want to encourage the people of the United States and worldwide to be vaccinated . ‘
The other part of Rubio’s tweet was aimed at a clear reversal in the public health recommendations on masks from the early stages of the pandemic, while not much research has been done on the virus and the US has serious shortages of personal had protective equipment.
Officials said an increase in inventory and evolving science – not lies – led to the change in recommendations on masks.
Surgeon General Jerome Adams in February urged Americans to “stop buying masks.” Months later, he, Fauci and the other U.S. health officials said masks were the best way to stop the spread of the disease.
Adams, who was in a Task Force Briefing at the Coronavirus in the White House in July, outlined what has changed.
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‘Health organizations and professionals originally recommended that they wear the masks to wear masks, because based on the best evidence available at the time, it was not considered to have a significant impact on the question of whether a health professional with a COVID-19 mask would come on or not. We have always recommended that symptomatic people wear a mask, “Adams said.
He added: “What has changed in our recommendation? … We now know from recent studies that a significant proportion of individuals with coronavirus do not have symptoms … And that even those who eventually become presymptomatic pass the virus on to others. can transmit before they show symptoms. “
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Rubio’s criticism of Fauci’s messages came days after he took the coronavirus vaccine publicly in an effort to create confidence in the American public that the vaccine is safe.
‘I know I looked away from the needle[.] And yes, I know I need a brown color, “Rubio said in a tweet. But I am so confident that the # Covid19 vaccine is safe and effective that I decided to take it myself. “
Vaccinations of health workers and vulnerable elderly continue in the last days of December, and the vaccines are becoming increasingly available to a larger number of people. Fauci on CNN’s “State of the Union” said on Sunday he believes vaccines could be offered to the general public in late March or early April, which could lead to herd immunity in the “mid to late” summer .
He said that by the fall it would lead to a “return to some form of normality”.