{"id":1081926,"date":"2021-12-03T19:58:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T00:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1081926"},"modified":"2021-12-03T19:58:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T00:58:45","slug":"fauci-we-havent-proven-that-vaccines-boosters-protect-against-omicron-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fauci-we-havent-proven-that-vaccines-boosters-protect-against-omicron-variant\/","title":{"rendered":"Fauci: We Haven&#039;t Proven that Vaccines, Boosters Protect Against Omicron Variant"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffauci-we-havent-proven-that-vaccines-boosters-protect-against-omicron-variant%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1081926&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/vaccine-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Dr. Anthony Fauci on Friday admitted that public health officials have yet to prove if vaccines and boosters protect against the Omicron variant of the Chinese coronavirus but urged people to get vaccinated and boosted anyway, regardless of the current lack of data.<\/p>\n<p>During a Friday White House press briefing, Fauci went through a series of slides on vaccines and boosters, looking at the data on the Delta variant, which is currently most prominent in the U.S. Notably, Fauci did not mention his previous admission that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/transcript-dr-anthony-fauci-on-face-the-nation-november-28-2021\/\">collecting<\/a> data on breakthrough infections that is not readily available to the public.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Ultimately, Fauci and CDC Director Rochelle Walensky repeatedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/press-briefings\/2021\/12\/03\/press-briefing-by-white-house-covid-19-response-team-and-public-health-officials-71\/\">urged<\/a> Americans to get vaccinated and boosted throughout the press conference, yet Fauci admitted that they have not yet proven that vaccines will be effective against the Omicron variant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough we haven\u2019t proven it yet, there\u2019s every reason to believe that if you get vaccinated and boosted that you would have at least some degree of cross-protection, very likely against severe disease, even against the Omicron variant,\u201d he said, making the admission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so, in the final slide, my message reflects that of Dr. Walensky: Get vaccinated and get boosted,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Similarly,&nbsp;Jeff Zients, the&nbsp;White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator, said vaccines \u201cclearly remain our most important tool, and the doctors\u2019 message is crystal clear: If you are fully vaccinated before June, it\u2019s time for you to go get your booster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re unvaccinated, go get your first shot today. And if your kids are five years or older and not yet vaccinated, get them the protection of the vaccine as well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The first case of the Omicron variant in the U.S. occurred in a fully vaccinated individual, and at least one of the five cases in New York <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/01\/wh-coronavirus-response-coordinator-fails-to-mention-1st-case-of-omicron-is-fully-vaccinated\/\">occurred<\/a> in a woman who was vaccinated, at least to some degree. The vaccination status of the others remained unknown at the time of Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) and Mayor Bill de Blasio\u2019s (D) joint press conference on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>During that press conference, both Hochul and de Blasio pitched vaccines as the absolute best way to combat the variant, despite the lack of data on the effectiveness of vaccines against this variant, specifically.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, Fauci <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/transcript-dr-anthony-fauci-on-face-the-nation-november-28-2021\/\">suggested<\/a> the CDC is tracking breakthrough infections but said much of the information is not in the reach of the general public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a very complicated situation,\u201d he said during an appearance on <em>Face the Nation<\/em>. \u201cAnd often the public doesn\u2019t hear yet in time things that are being collected. So there\u2019s a lot of data, clearly a lot of data, that\u2019s being collected by the CDC that people don\u2019t know about yet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci on Friday admitted that public health officials have yet to prove if vaccines and boosters protect against the Omicron variant of the Chinese coronavirus but urged people &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1081926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1081926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}