During a recent interview with New York Times Magazine, Master of All Things COVID Dr. Anthony Fauci admitted that “something clearly went wrong” with the COVID response.
“Something clearly went wrong,” Fauci told the Times’ David Wallace-Wells. “And I don’t know exactly what it was. But the reason we know it went wrong is that we are the richest country in the world, and on a per-capita basis we’ve done worse than virtually all other countries.”
“And there’s no reason that a rich country like ours has to have 1.1 million deaths. Unacceptable.”
“I don’t think anybody did anything wrong. What went wrong was that the virus did not act the way one would have thought the virus would act. We made an assumption that turned out to be an incorrect assumption — that this was going to act like other viruses,” Fauci says.
Excerpt From NYT Magazine:
Wallace-Wells: And then, did we talk enough about the risk of breakthroughs? Through the summer of 2021, the messagingwas that breakthrough cases were very rare and functionally never resulted in serious illness. But beginning with the Delta variant, both of those things became much less true. And now, in 2023, more than half of our deaths are among vaccinated people.11 Was there enough communication to prepare people — especially the vulnerable elderly — for some continuing risk going forward?
Fauci: I mean, we tried. David, we’re playing a lot of Monday-morning quarterbacking here. This is some really serious Monday-morning quarterbacking.
Wallace-Wells: Well, yeah, that is the game we’re playing — trying to learn from what happened. I’m not trying to prosecute you on any of these points. I’m just trying to ask: What went right? What went wrong? What do we understand better now? And what could we do better next time?
Fauci: Of course we could have done better. We tried. If you look at what I was saying in the months before I stepped down, and what Ashish Jha is saying to this day, it’s that if you are vaccinated and boosted and have available therapy, you are not going to die, no matter how old you are. We were very explicit in saying that. Did people hear that? I don’t know. How loud do you have to say something for people to understand? How often have you got to say it?
Read the full interview over at NYT Mag:
Dr. Anthony Fauci finally admits that mask mandates were a broad spectrum failure: “From a broad public health standpoint, at the population level, masks work at the margins – maybe 10%.”
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) April 25, 2023
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