{"id":1556193,"date":"2022-07-15T11:04:51","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T15:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1556193"},"modified":"2022-07-15T11:04:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T15:04:53","slug":"new-covid-19-variant-sensationalized-by-fauci-white-house-sen-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-covid-19-variant-sensationalized-by-fauci-white-house-sen-paul\/","title":{"rendered":"New COVID-19 Variant \u2018Sensationalized\u2019 by Fauci, White House: Sen. Paul"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fnew-covid-19-variant-sensationalized-by-fauci-white-house-sen-paul%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=1556193&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>After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-white-house\">White House<\/a> adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra issued warnings about a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-covid-19\">COVID-19<\/a> subvariant,\u00a0Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said they are not providing key facts about the latest strain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow come the flu vaccine changes every year and they\u2019re not willing to change this vaccine?\u201d Paul told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/latest-covid-variant-sensationalized-white-house-rand-paul\">Fox News<\/a> on Tuesday. \u201cNow, you might have me with an argument. I\u2019ll listen to you if you tell me, \u2018We\u2019ve got a new vaccine that actually has something to do with the current virus,&#8217;\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>It came after Fauci, who has given hundreds of media interviews since the start of the pandemic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/health\/2022\/07\/13\/dr-anthony-fauci-coronavirus-new-variant-immunity-sot-newday-vpx.cnn\">told<\/a> CNN this week that the Omicron subvariant BA.5 is concerning due to its high transmissibility. People infected in the first COVID-19 waves \u201creally don\u2019t have a lot of good protection\u201d against the latest subvariant, Fauci also said at a White House briefing several days ago.<\/p>\n<p>But Paul, himself a doctor, told Fox that Omicron \u201cwas about 90 percent less likely to put you in the hospital than the first variant,\u201d saying that Americans should \u201cdiscount\u201d what both Fauci and Becerra are saying about the latest subvariant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo if no one\u2019s telling you any information, how can you make any judgment other than the emotionalism and the sensationalism of the government?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>Fauci himself was infected with COVID-19 several weeks ago and confirmed he took Pfizer drug Paxlovid before his symptoms recurred, although he\u2019s received two booster shots.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/fauci-makes-surprising-concession-regarding-covid-19-vaccines_4595318.html\">Fauci conceded<\/a> that most COVID-19 vaccines don\u2019t protect \u201coverly well\u201d against the latest variant. However, he used that statement to claim that they are effective at limiting the most severe symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt my age, being vaccinated and boosted, even though it didn\u2019t protect me against infection, I feel confident that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After White House adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra issued warnings about a new COVID-19 subvariant,\u00a0Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said they are not providing key facts about the latest strain. \u201cHow come the flu vaccine changes every year and they\u2019re not willing to change this vaccine?\u201d Paul told Fox [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"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-1556193","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\/1556193","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556193\/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=1556193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}