{"id":729531,"date":"2021-09-08T07:35:54","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T11:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=729531"},"modified":"2021-09-08T07:35:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T11:35:58","slug":"watch-desantis-slams-fauci-in-fiery-exchange-at-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-desantis-slams-fauci-in-fiery-exchange-at-press-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: DeSantis Slams Fauci In Fiery Exchange At Press Conference"},"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%2Fwatch-desantis-slams-fauci-in-fiery-exchange-at-press-conference%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=729531&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\/09\/RonnyD-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis slammed NIAID Director Anthony Fauci during a press conference on Tuesday after Fauci criticized recent remarks that DeSantis made.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis made the remarks when a reporter began to ask, \u201cGovernor you recently said that unvaccinated individuals had no impact on numbers and Dr. Fauci was quoted saying that \u2013\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s not what I said. No, no, no, that\u2019s not what I said,\u201d DeSantis fired back. \u201cNot that I ever expect to be quoted properly. What I said was, if you\u2019re going to force vaccine mandates on people, just to understand that what the data is showing us about the vaccine, the data is showing us you\u2019re much less likely to be hospitalized or die if you\u2019re vaccinated. That is true. And I think you see it in the statistics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, the vaccinations have not created herd immunity,\u201d DeSantis continued. \u201cSo if the idea is that having herd immunity, you force everyone to do this, and that will create a herd immunity, that has not happened. It\u2019s still spreading. People who, I mean, obviously in Florida, we\u2019re going down now which is great, but that\u2019s not what the issue is, is it creating a herd immunity? Fauci also said if 50% were vaccinated, you would not see any surges anymore. Well, that isn\u2019t true. Look at obviously the Sunbelt, look in the Pacific Northwest, look at Hawaii, huge surges that you\u2019ve seen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with NPR\u2019s \u201cMorning Edition\u201d in December 2020, Fauci was asked by&nbsp;NPR\u2019s Rachel Martin&nbsp;how many Americans would need to get vaccinated to impact the number of COVID-19 infections. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/coronavirus-live-updates\/2020\/12\/15\/946714505\/fauci-predicts-u-s-could-see-signs-of-herd-immunity-by-late-march-or-early-april\">replied<\/a>,&nbsp;\u201cI would say 50% would have to get vaccinated before you start to see an impact.\u201d He added that if \u201c75 to 85%\u201d got vaccinated, we could achieve \u201cthat blanket of herd immunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.3333333333333\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovRonDeSantis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GovRonDeSantis<\/a> hits back at Dr. Fauci, who criticized him this AM on CNN: \u201cFauci said if 50 percent were vaccinated you wouldn\u2019t see any surges anymore \u2014 well, that isn\u2019t true&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8f0kPDkAGs\">pic.twitter.com\/8f0kPDkAGs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1435301001402195969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>TRANSCRIPT:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"119\">\n<p><em>REPORTER: Governor you recently said that unvaccinated individuals had no impact on numbers and Dr. Fauci was quoted saying that \u2014<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>RON DESANTIS, GOVERNOR OF FLORIDA (R): That\u2019s not what I said. No, no, no, that\u2019s not what I said. Not that I ever expect to be quoted properly. What I said was, if you\u2019re going to force vaccine mandates on people, just to understand that what the data is showing us about the vaccine, the data is showing us you\u2019re much less likely to be hospitalized or die if you\u2019re vaccinated. That is true. And I think you see it in the statistics. However, the vaccinations have not created herd immunity. So if the idea is that having herd immunity, you force everyone to do this, and that will create a herd immunity that has not happened. It\u2019s still spreading. People who, I mean, obviously in Florida, we\u2019re going down now which is great, but that\u2019s not what the issue is, is it creating a herd immunity? Fauci also said if 50% were vaccinated, you would not see any surges anymore.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Well, that isn\u2019t true. Look at obviously the Sunbelt, look in the Pacific Northwest, look at Hawaii, huge surges that you\u2019ve seen. And so, but just understand what you\u2019re doing. If you\u2019re forcing somebody to show proof of this to eat at a restaurant or to do basic tasks, go to the grocery store. There are some places around, if you look at some of these places that have really gone off the deep end they say, to go to the grocery store you should have to do that. So we\u2019re not doing that in Florida. But the theory behind it is that if you make everyone have to do this under penalty of law, that somehow you wouldn\u2019t have spread, and I think we just have to be honest about what it\u2019s doing and what it\u2019s not doing. We had hoped that if you had 50%, then you wouldn\u2019t have that.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We had hoped you could build herd immunity that way, but that just hasn\u2019t happened. It\u2019s not happening in Israel. It didn\u2019t happen in the UK. It\u2019s not happening in the United States. It doesn\u2019t mean that there\u2019s not positive impacts. But the positive impacts is mostly reducing the vaccinated individuals a chance of being severely ill. Also, I would say, if you look at what we\u2019ve done, we\u2019re leading the nation and pushing early treatment for people with COVID. And that\u2019s people that are not vaccinated, but it\u2019s also people that are vaccinated who are high risk, who still see some of them ending up in the hospital. So we were able to do that.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This has been available since December. We found that most of the people that were going, being admitted to hospitals, yes, most were not vaccinated, but almost none of them got the monoclonal treatment, the antibody treatment early on in their illness. If they had done that, a lot of those people would not have died. So we\u2019ve done stuff. We\u2019ve done the one here in Polk County. It\u2019s seen 2,800 patients, it\u2019s administered treatments, and what you\u2019re finding is we\u2019re seeing the hospital census decline rapidly. We\u2019re seeing the emergency room visits for COVID-like illness decline. We\u2019re seeing daily hospital admissions decline.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So those are very, very good trends, but that\u2019s about understanding where there was a need for action, and then we did this in \u2026 I mean, we were able to put together a lot of sites very quickly. We\u2019re going to open up a couple more, so we\u2019re going to have, by the end of this week \u2026 We\u2019ll be up to 25 sites throughout the State of Florida, all of them being able to do up to 320 infusions a day. Now most of our sites don\u2019t have that much demand, but I would say the one here in Polk is probably doing between 150 and 200 every day. Some of the other ones like Bonita Springs, they do 300 a day pretty consistently, and then others do around a hundred. But the point is, is that by doing that, getting it early, we\u2019re keeping thousands of people out of the hospitals and that\u2019s obviously better for their health. It\u2019s saving lives, for sure, because not everyone that gets admitted to the hospital recovers, and it\u2019s also helping relieving a burden on the healthcare system because we had had higher levels of COVID patients. Now that\u2019s going down, so we\u2019re going to keep this going in that direction.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But one of the reasons why we thought that this was something that needed to happen was because yes, people just didn\u2019t seem to know about it, even though it had been available since December, so we\u2019ve raised the spotlight. Now other states are following Florida, but it was based on the fact that you were still seeing people who were fully vaccinated test positive. Again, we didn\u2019t see the herd immunity that we had hoped for, and so in that situation \u2026 We\u2019ve already had great testimonials about this. Very elderly people who\u2019ve been fully vaccinated for months get COVID, are symptomatic, and then they get the infusion, and either they stay out of the hospital \u2026 some of them do get admitted, but I can tell you we\u2019ve had a number of these folks who get discharged and the doctors are saying, \u2018Had you not gotten the monoclonal, you probably wouldn\u2019t be getting discharged right now.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So it\u2019s been a big success and it\u2019s something that we\u2019re going to continue to do, but it is something that we recognize that this stuff\u2026 People were testing positive, both vaccinated and unvaccinated, and so in terms of hoping to just get herd immunity and all of a sudden that has not happened anywhere yet in our country or in some of our other countries, particularly those that have been highly, highly vaxxed. You just got to look at the data, and you got to make judgments on the basis of that, but I think we filled a real need with what we did with the monoclonals.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis slammed NIAID Director Anthony Fauci during a press conference on Tuesday after Fauci criticized recent remarks that DeSantis made.DeSantis made the remarks when a reporter began &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729531","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\/729531","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729531\/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=729531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}