Dr. Deborah Birx served up a bombshell revelation about the efficacy of the COVID vaccines during an interview on Your World with Neil Cavuto. Birx, the former White House COVID-19 response coordinator and one of the two most recognizable spokespeople during the pandemic, along with Dr. Anthony…
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Dr. Deborah Birx served up a bombshell revelation about the efficacy of the COVID vaccines during an interview on Your World with Neil Cavuto. Birx, the former White House COVID-19 response coordinator and one of the two most recognizable spokespeople during the pandemic, along with Dr. Anthony Fauci, claimed the vaccines were overplayed and that she knew they didn’t work. While this is shocking in and of itself, it is especially tragic given how many people had their employment terminated because they refused to get an ineffective and “overplayed” vaccine.
"I knew these vaccines were not going to protect against infection," Birx said. "And I think we overplayed the vaccines, and it made people then worry that it's not going to protect against severe disease and hospitalization. It will. But let's be very clear: 50% of the people who died from the omicron surge were older, vaccinated."
Let's see what Dr. Birx said completely instead of just the sentence that generated the "vaccine doesn't work" headline.
Dr. Deborah Birx, COVID-19 response coordinator under former President Donald Trump, didn't mince words as she spoke rec
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First, Birx did tell Fox News that she thought the vaccine was overplayed. But she also said the vaccine "will protect you." Here are her comments in full:
Cavuto: "I did want to get your take — a lot of people looking at the president having (COVID-19). And a lot of people vaxxed and boosted and they're getting it. The 20% of Americans who have not been vaccinated might look at that and say, 'Why bother? Why bother?' What do you tell them?"
Birx: "If you're across the South and you're in the middle of this wave, what is going to save you is Paxlovid.
But once we get through this wave, during that lull, you should get vaccinated and boosted, because we do believe it will protect you, particularly if you're over 70. I knew these vaccines were not going to protect against infection. I think we overplayed the vaccines, and it made people then worry that it's not going to protect against severe disease and hospitalization. It will. But let's be very clear, 50% of the people who died from the omicron surge were older and vaccinated. Even if you're vaccinated and boosted, if you're unvaccinated, right now, the key is testing and Paxlovid. It's effective, it's a great antiviral. And really it's what's going to save your lives right now if you're over 70."
I know it's pushing a boulder uphill to argue semantics with some, but Dr Birx, despite the impression that she contributed to (or condoned the previous president by not contradicting) some of the previous president's outrageous suggestions (anyone remember bleach), speaks like a scientist, so maybe some explanation of the nuances of terms.
"I knew these vaccines were not going to protect against
infection"
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differentiates between infection and disease by writing that most COVID-19 vaccines do not prevent infection but do prevent infection from spreading within the body and causing severe illness.
"Right now, we don't know how great these vaccines might be against preventing infection," Birx said in that Dec. 22, 2020,
interview. "So, you may get a low-grade infection. And you may shed virus.
We know it protects against disease. And it protects against severe disease … But what we don't know is, '
Does it protect against infection?' And we'll be able to really understand that in the next few weeks to months."
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