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Fauci says the general public 'somehow didn't get his messaging 'that the vulnerable are really, really heavily weighted toward the elderly'
Now, back in March of 2020 (at the beginning, pre-'vaccines')... NIH's Fauci on coronavirus: 'The risk group is very, very clear'
But, as of January last year... Virus may infect most, Fauci says, but risk of severe illness 'very, very low? for vaccinated
In other words, the 'shift' didn't happen in the public until the Government and the media 'shifted' to nonstop coverage of a 'pandemic of the unvaccinated.'
September 2021... Remarks by President Biden on Fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic
Yet, also from September 2021... Questioning a catchphrase: 'Pandemic of the unvaccinated'
As Reason.com stated in December of 2021... RIP, 'Pandemic of the Unvaccinated'
By April last year... Opinion: The false 'pandemic of the unvaccinated' motto did lasting harm
Of course, by November last year... COVID No Longer 'Pandemic of the Unvaccinated'
So, by November, the Government and the media were, once again, noting that the 'elderly' were most vulnerable (at the greatest risk) despite being 'vaccinated and boosted.'
As I just showed, Fauci was a prominent figure in the alteration of the narrative from the most vulnerable being the elderly and those with commorbidities to the "unvaccinated" being not only the most vulnerable, but the most problematic in terms of disease spread. Yet, now, he's claiming that "we" (the public), somehow, 'misunderstood' and/or 'ignored' the experts and himself?!?! On top of that, more is coming out as to... Why Do Vaccinated People Represent Most COVID-19 Deaths Right Now? In fact, as many of us asked, leaned toward, and even hopefully declared throughout the last 3 years, in March 2023, it was published in the Lancet that (a preview being provided in February by NBC News... Immunity acquired from a Covid infection is as protective as vaccination against severe illness and death, study finds...
What it comes down to is what I posted some time back. Fauci was responsible for saying just about anything/everything so that, at some point, he could come back and claim: "See, I said/predicted/warned/pleaded/et al. about THAT." 
...In his interview, Wallace-Wells took the opportunity to ask Fauci about that directly.
"Did we do enough to communicate the age skew of the disease?" he asked. "I still think, honestly to this day, that almost no one appreciates just how wide that age skew really is, given that the risk to someone in their 80s or 90s is perhaps hundreds of times as high as it is to someone in their 20s or 30s."
"You are hitting on some terrific points," Fauci replied. "Did we say that the elderly were much more vulnerable? Yes. Did we say it over and over and over again? Yes, yes, yes. But somehow or other, the general public didn?t get that feeling that the vulnerable are really, really heavily weighted toward the elderly. Like 85 percent of the hospitalizations are there. But if you ask the person in the street, they may say, 'Oh, yeah, elderly are more vulnerable, but everybody's really vulnerable' - which is true, but to a much lesser extent."...
"Did we do enough to communicate the age skew of the disease?" he asked. "I still think, honestly to this day, that almost no one appreciates just how wide that age skew really is, given that the risk to someone in their 80s or 90s is perhaps hundreds of times as high as it is to someone in their 20s or 30s."
"You are hitting on some terrific points," Fauci replied. "Did we say that the elderly were much more vulnerable? Yes. Did we say it over and over and over again? Yes, yes, yes. But somehow or other, the general public didn?t get that feeling that the vulnerable are really, really heavily weighted toward the elderly. Like 85 percent of the hospitalizations are there. But if you ask the person in the street, they may say, 'Oh, yeah, elderly are more vulnerable, but everybody's really vulnerable' - which is true, but to a much lesser extent."...
As clinicians gear up to fight the novel coronavirus spreading throughout the U.S., top officials say they should focus special attention on seniors.
"It's so clear that the overwhelming weight of serious disease and mortality is on those who are elderly and those with a serious comorbidity: heart disease, chronic lung disease, diabetes, obesity, respiratory difficulties," said Anthony Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
"There will be outliers, as we've seen with influenza, [a person] who is young and healthy who winds up getting COVID-19, [gets] seriously ill and dies," Fauci said in a taped interview with Howard Bauchner, M.D., editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association. "But if you look at the weight of the data the risk group is very, very clear."...
"It's so clear that the overwhelming weight of serious disease and mortality is on those who are elderly and those with a serious comorbidity: heart disease, chronic lung disease, diabetes, obesity, respiratory difficulties," said Anthony Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
"There will be outliers, as we've seen with influenza, [a person] who is young and healthy who winds up getting COVID-19, [gets] seriously ill and dies," Fauci said in a taped interview with Howard Bauchner, M.D., editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association. "But if you look at the weight of the data the risk group is very, very clear."...
Top U.S. infectious-disease expert Anthony S. Fauci on Wednesday reiterated the stark warning that the coronavirus will probably infect most Americans eventually, but added an important caveat: While "virtually everybody is going to wind up getting exposed and likely get infected," he said, "if you're vaccinated and if you're boosted, the chances of you getting sick are very, very low."...
September 2021... Remarks by President Biden on Fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic
...This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. And it's caused by the fact that despite America having an unprecedented and successful vaccination program, despite the fact that for almost five months free vaccines have been available in 80,000 different locations, we still have nearly 80 million Americans who have failed to get the shot...
..."It is true that the unvaccinated are the biggest driver, but we mustn't forget that the vaccinated are part of it as well, in part because of the delta variant," said Dr. Eric Topol, professor of molecular medicine at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California. "The pandemic clearly involves all people, not just the unvaccinated."...
...The pandemic of the unvaccinated framing actively encouraged one of the uglier and least productive societal reactions to COVID-19: Making the mere fact of contracting the virus a morality play falling largely along partisan lines. The whole notion that by "doing everything right," and "following all the rules," you will be righteously spared, unlike those anti-science people this summer down south...
...We've learned a lot about things relative to this coronavirus and the pandemic it caused: Various treatments for the disease, public policy for its prevention and against its spread, the development and distribution of vaccines, and a lot of other matters as well. But a number of these matters need to be discussed with regard to what we did right and what we did wrong in response to the pandemic. One of the most important of those, in my view, is the public perception of vaccine efficacy...
By the following summer, President Joe Biden, unhappy with how many Americans were still unvaccinated, called the continued spread of the coronavirus a "pandemic of the unvaccinated." The narrative was simple: Get vaccinated and you won?t get sick. Don't get vaccinated and not only can you get sick, but you'll be a threat to everybody else. I don't really blame Biden for promoting this sort of thing at the time. I suspect he was saying more or less what he'd been told.
But it was enormously divisive to the country. It was also factually incorrect...
By the following summer, President Joe Biden, unhappy with how many Americans were still unvaccinated, called the continued spread of the coronavirus a "pandemic of the unvaccinated." The narrative was simple: Get vaccinated and you won?t get sick. Don't get vaccinated and not only can you get sick, but you'll be a threat to everybody else. I don't really blame Biden for promoting this sort of thing at the time. I suspect he was saying more or less what he'd been told.
But it was enormously divisive to the country. It was also factually incorrect...
For the first time, the majority of people dying from COVID-19 in America have been vaccinated...
Research continues to show that people who are vaccinated or boosted have a lower risk of death. The rise in deaths among the vaccinated is the result of three factors, Cox said. They are:
Research continues to show that people who are vaccinated or boosted have a lower risk of death. The rise in deaths among the vaccinated is the result of three factors, Cox said. They are:
- A large majority of people in the U.S. have been vaccinated (267 million people in the U.S., the CDC says).
- People who are at the greatest risk of dying from COVID-19 are more likely to be vaccinated and boosted, such as the elderly.
- Vaccines lose their effectiveness over time; the virus changes to avoid vaccines; and people need to choose to get boosters to continue to be protected...
As I just showed, Fauci was a prominent figure in the alteration of the narrative from the most vulnerable being the elderly and those with commorbidities to the "unvaccinated" being not only the most vulnerable, but the most problematic in terms of disease spread. Yet, now, he's claiming that "we" (the public), somehow, 'misunderstood' and/or 'ignored' the experts and himself?!?! On top of that, more is coming out as to... Why Do Vaccinated People Represent Most COVID-19 Deaths Right Now? In fact, as many of us asked, leaned toward, and even hopefully declared throughout the last 3 years, in March 2023, it was published in the Lancet that (a preview being provided in February by NBC News... Immunity acquired from a Covid infection is as protective as vaccination against severe illness and death, study finds...
Immunity acquired from a Covid infection provides strong, lasting protection against the most severe outcomes of the illness, according to research published Thursday in The Lancet ? protection, experts say, that's on par with what?s provided through two doses of an mRNA vaccine...
