Here's the actual transcript of that interview in full
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-dr-anthony-fauci-face-the-nation-05-16-2021/
Here's a highlight of what he ACTUALLY said BEFORE the quote you pulled. Context is important when you want to nail a man to the cross.
JOHN dingdongERSON: Good to be with you. The new guidance on masks is confusing people a little because two weeks ago the CDC said that people who had been vaccinated were safer while wearing masks. Now there's new guidance, what changed in that period?
DR. FAUCI: Well,
what's happened, there's been an accumulation of data on showing in the real-world effectiveness of the vaccines. It is even better than in the clinical trials, well over 90% protecting you against disease, number one. Number two, a number of papers have come out in the past couple of weeks showing that the vaccine protects even against the variants that are circulating. And thirdly,
we're seeing that it is very unlikely that a vaccinated person, even if there's a breakthrough infection, would transmit it to someone else. So, the accumulation of all of those scientific facts, information and evidence brought the CDC to make that decision to say now when you're vaccinated, you don't need to wear a mask, not only outdoors, but you don't need to wear it indoors.
JOHN dingdongERSON: So, on that third point, let me ask you this. If I have no symptoms and I have been vaccinated, but I- but I am infected, what's the difference between that? And if I have no symptoms and I'm infected but have not been vaccinated?
DR. FAUCI: Good question, JOHN. And what the- what the issue is, is that the level of virus in your nasal pharynx, which is correlated with whether or not you were going to transmit it to someone else, is considerably lower.
So even though there are breakthrough infections with vaccinated people, almost always the people are asymptomatic, and the level of virus is so low, it makes it extremely unlikely, not impossible, but very, very low likelihood that they are going to transmit it. Whereas when people who are getting infected, who were without symptoms, who are not vaccinated, generally the titer or the level of virus, relatively speaking, is higher than in the vaccinated individuals.
He was incorrect.
She was corrected 72 hours later by the CDC.
Broadly speaking he wasn't off-base.
Is this from the CDC?!!!
Is this from the CDC?!!!
Is this from the CDC?
Is this from the CDC?
Beyond Walensky's errant (and swiftly corrected) comment, when did any government or health official state that the vaccine prevented infection and spread unequivocally?
The snapshot in time you have focussed your examples from center around a 3 month period, when confusion continued to spew all sorts of media driven misinformation.
