{"id":1552410,"date":"2022-07-13T12:04:04","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T16:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1552410"},"modified":"2022-07-13T12:04:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T16:04:07","slug":"vaxxed-dr-fauci-acknowledges-covid-vaccines-dont-protect-overly-well-against-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vaxxed-dr-fauci-acknowledges-covid-vaccines-dont-protect-overly-well-against-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaxxed Dr. Fauci Acknowledges COVID Vaccines \u2018Don\u2019t Protect Overly Well\u2019 Against Infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fvaxxed-dr-fauci-acknowledges-covid-vaccines-dont-protect-overly-well-against-infection%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=1552410&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--><p>Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top immunologist in the U.S., acknowledged on Tuesday that vaccines against COVID \u201cdon\u2019t protect overly well\u201d against infection but are still necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Fauci, who recently got the virus despite being vaccinated and boosted, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/fauci-admits-covid-19-vaccines-protect-overly-well-infection\">told<\/a> Fox News that the jabs are still important because they can keep people from getting severely ill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the things that\u2019s clear from the data [is] that even though vaccines \u2013 because of the high degree of transmissibility of this virus \u2013 don\u2019t protect overly well, as it were, against infection, they protect quite well against severe disease leading to hospitalization and death,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I believe that\u2019s the reason \u2026 why at my age, being vaccinated and boosted, even though it didn\u2019t protect me against infection, I feel confident that it made a major role in protecting me from progressing to severe disease,\u201d he also said. \u201cThat\u2019s very likely why I had a relatively mild course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fauci, who serves as a top adviser on COVID to President Joe Biden, also still recommends Americans get the shots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy message to people who seem confused because people who are vaccinated get infected \u2013 the answer is if you weren\u2019t vaccinated, the likelihood [is] you would have had [a] more severe course than you did have when you were vaccinated,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>When Fauci, 81, contracted COVID earlier this month, he decided to take Paxlovid, Pfizer\u2019s antiviral for people at greater risk of complications.<\/p>\n<p>He initially had minimal symptoms but took the drug when he began to feel worse. After the five-day course of the medication, he said he felt \u201creally quite well\u201d for a while, aside from some fatigue and a bit of congestion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was sort of what people are referring to as a Paxlovid rebound,\u201d Fauci said during a remote interview with the Foreign Policy Global Health Forum, ABC <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/fauci-taking-2nd-paxlovid-experiencing-rebound-antiviral-treatment\/story?id=85922417\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The news site noted that Paxlovid is approved for people in the U.S. with \u201cmild-to-moderate symptoms\u201d and \u201cat significant risk of progressing to severe illness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fauci\u2019s comments came shortly after a panel of independent advisers that works with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommended producing new COVID vaccines to target the Omicron variant.<\/p>\n<p>By a 19-2 vote, the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) approved a plan to have new vaccines ready by early October. The panel said the newly formulated vaccines are needed because new subvariants of the Omicron strain appear to be able to bypass antibodies delivered via previous vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>That would mean Americans could be urged to take a fourth shot, with fifth shots for the immunocompromised and people over 50 years old.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top immunologist in the U.S., acknowledged on Tuesday that vaccines against COVID \u201cdon\u2019t protect overly well\u201d against infection but are still necessary. 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