an email dr. francis collins and she regarded the decoration where he called for a quick and devastating published takedown of its premises. to be clear, this was not dr. collins suggesting that you suggest or censor at the declaration. he was suggesting that the points you just explained, memorialized to refute the scientific premises of the great barrington declaration. is that correct? yes. there is good reason for dr. collins to have substantive concerns. lifting mitigation measures for the vast majority of society and perverting them from populations including the elderly and people with underlying health conditions. this was months before a vaccination was available in public health systems were being overwhelmed. thousands of americans were dying daily. doctors fauci, what percentage of the population needed to be infected with covid before we
achieved herd immunity? herd immunity was very loose with covid. the great barrington declaration was flawed both conceptually and in practice. conceptually it s that shield vulnerable people. as if the only vulnerable people are those in nursing homes. we have tens and tens of millions of vulnerable people that you couldn t possibly shield. people with underlying conditions, the elderly, those would be the individuals. conceptually impossible to do that. herd immunity as we know means, if you have a virus that doesn t change and a virus in which you get infected or vaccinated, you have highly durable and perhaps lifelong immunity. that is not the case with covid. we know immunity wanes, and we have multiple variants. in practical purposes, the great barrington declaration was
decision that you were somehow solely responsible for, including in your role as a naiad directory. is that correct? these decisions were made at the state and local level in communities across the country like my home state of hawaii which was particularly aggressive. in part as a response to the failure to contain the outbreak of the virus. is that not correct? i m sorry. ma am, i am not really hearing you very well. could you to be clear with the decisions were made at the state and local levels in communities across the country. that is correct. thank you. i would like to shift topics for suppressing opposing viewpoints about the pandemic response. over the past 15 months, the majority of the members of the subcommittee have levied the allegation of federal health officials answered proposals like the great american declaration which are inconsistent with the overwhelming consensus of the scientific and medical community. much attention has been paid to
Former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Dr. Anthony Fauci contradicted several of his past statements during the COVID-19 pandemic as he testified before Congress on Monday.