(The Center Square)
Following his recently published paper on the efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines, Dr. Anthony Fauci faces criticism.
Joel Zinberg, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, blasted Fauci for pushing for stricter mandates despite concerns about the vaccine.
“Dr. Anthony Fauci recently acknowledged that there are always good scientific reasons to believe that vaccines against the respiratory virus that causes COVID-19 — SARS-CoV-2 — offer limited protection against infection, and only for a short period of time,” Joel Zinberg, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, told Center Square.
“That’s exactly what happened: protection against transmission lasted only a few months, and the effectiveness waned as each new viral variant proved more infectious than its predecessor,” he continued. “Yet Dr. Fauci insisted that everyone needed repeated vaccinations and pushed for vaccine mandates until recently.”
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Fauci, who left his role as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases last year, made the comments in a recent medical journal piece he co-authored. The piece makes clear that developing long-acting vaccines for respiratory conditions like COVID-19 is a very difficult and still-to-be-overcome problem, something researchers have known for years.
From an article published in Cell Host and Microbe:
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While vaccine development and licensure is a long and complex process that requires years of preclinical and clinical safety and efficacy data, the limitations of influenza and SARS-CoV-2 vaccines remind us that candidate vaccines for other respiratory viruses have so far not been sufficiently protective. For licensure consideration, including candidate vaccines against RSV, a major killer of infants and the elderly, parainfluenzaviruses, endemic coronaviruses, and many other ‘common cold’ viruses that cause significant morbidity and economic loss…
Taking all these factors into account, it is not surprising that predominantly mucosal respiratory viruses are not effectively controlled by vaccines. This observation raises a question of fundamental importance: if natural mucosal respiratory virus infections do not induce complete and long-lasting protective immunity against reinfection, how can we expect vaccines, especially non-recurrent vaccines administered systemically? This is a major challenge for future vaccine development and is critical to overcome as we work to develop ‘next generation’ vaccines.
The paper and other findings show that Fauci was false or deceptive in his promises about the vaccine’s effectiveness while pushing the vaccine on behalf of the federal government. For example, Fauci said in May 2021, “When you get vaccinated, you not only protect your own and family’s health… but you contribute to the health of the community by preventing the spread of the virus throughout the community. And in other words, you become a dead end for the virus.
Recent research shows that vaccinated people can still spread the virus.
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The economy nosedived and countless Americans lost their jobs due to pandemic-era shutdowns.
From nurses to Navy SEALs, those who refused vaccination were fired from their jobs. Elected leaders publicly attack vaccine skeptics.
As time has passed, more research and papers like Fauci’s have emerged, casting doubts on the vaccine’s effectiveness and, in some cases, highlighting adverse side effects.
“Thousands of workers who were willing to become seriously ill, perhaps ill-advised, were laid off even though vaccines did not protect them or their co-workers from infection. Essential personnel, including firefighters, police and the military, were lost,” Zinberg said.
“Fauci’s long-standing reluctance to acknowledge the foreseeable shortcomings of COVID vaccines has undermined trust in public health officials,” he said. “Even with government efforts to debunk ‘misinformation’, it became public knowledge that the effectiveness of vaccines in stopping transmission was low. When the next pandemic hit, people might have little faith in the advice they received, with potentially disastrous consequences.
Syndicated with permission from The Center Square.