Former top White House COVID advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci called the government’s handling of the COVID pandemic an “amazing scientific accomplishment,” but also admitted that keeping schools closed for a year as a means to stop the spread of the virus was wrong.
While discussing his newly published book “On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service,” Fauci told CBS Mornings co-host Tony Dokoupil that, while he still stands by the initial decision to close down schools, he now believes “keeping it for a year was not a good idea.”
“Shutting down everything immediately — and we didn’t shut it down completely — but essentially major social distancing in even schools was the right thing,” Fauci said:
How long you kept it was the problem, because there was a disparity throughout the country. I mean, if you go back and look at the YouTube, I kept on saying, “Close the bars, open the schools. Open the schools as quickly and as safely as you possibly can.” But initially to close it down was correct. Keeping it for a year was not a good idea.
In May 2020, Fauci warned states against ending closures and social distancing mandates too early – before a “vaccine” could be developed.
“My concern is that we will start to see little spikes that will turn into outbreaks,” Fauci told senators during a hearing at the time. “There is a real risk that you will trigger an outbreak you might not be able to control … the idea of having treatments available or a vaccine to facilitate the re-entry of students to the fall term would be something that would be a bridge too far.”
Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), now defends the government’s response to COVID.
“What was accomplished in 11 months – if this were 10-15 years ago – this would have taken years and years,” he touted. “But the combination of the exquisite science that was put in, both for the mRNA as well as for the actual immunogen … was just amazing.”
Fauci boasted the government worked, via the Operation Warp Speed vaccine effort, “to get millions and millions of doses made – before we even knew it worked.”
“That was very, very helpful in getting it done so quickly,” he added.
In February 2022, however, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) delivered mixed messages when it admitted that natural immunity is more protective than the COVID shot within a couple of days of also urging that young children – the group with the lowest health risk – get the shots and additional boosters, regardless of the status of their overall health.
Cardiologist and champion of early treatment for COVID Dr. Peter McCullough recently told One America News’ In Focus with Alison Steinberg that multiple experts – and even Fauci – have now agreed that the COVID shots “only worked for a few months, and then boosters had to be taken.”
Ultimately, McCullough stressed that “vaccines are not a solution to a pandemic.”
“[N]o randomized trial has ever shown the vaccines reduce the risk of hospitalization and death,” he explained:
The vaccines did not reduce transmission of the illness. The early randomized trial showed a reduction in new cases of mild covid that were basically immaterial. The consent form does not indicate the vaccines reduce the risk of hospitalization or death. So, Fauci is completely wrong. This is not scientifically proven whatsoever. In fact, the vaccines, in multiple analyses, increase the risk of recurrent infection and have increased all-cause mortality.
