Re:18.7 Million Americans Vaccinated
by SpicyLemonZest on Monday January 25, 2021 @12:59AM
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Fauci was pretty explicit about it in the linked interview:
> “When polls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I was saying herd immunity would take 70 to 75 percent,” Dr. Fauci said. “Then, when newer surveys said 60 percent or more would take it, I thought, ‘I can nudge this up a bit,’ so I went to 80, 85.”
I think it’s fair to characterize this as dishonesty, and to be less charitable about whether his past communications were in retrospect honest.
> “When polls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I was saying herd immunity would take 70 to 75 percent,” Dr. Fauci said. “Then, when newer surveys said 60 percent or more would take it, I thought, ‘I can nudge this up a bit,’ so I went to 80, 85.”
I think it’s fair to characterize this as dishonesty, and to be less charitable about whether his past communications were in retrospect honest.