WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of the nation's leading public health advisers, said Sunday that the U.S. should still proceed with its plan to give people both doses of the currently available Covid-19 vaccines, even as some top health care officials have suggested that the priority should be giving first doses to as many people as possible.
There’s disagreement among some experts about how to proceed amid supply shortages and new variants that could become more resistant to current vaccines or an increase in infections. Dr. Michael Osterholm, an epidemiologist who advised the President Joe Biden's transition team on the pandemic,that he believed prioritizing more first doses would set the country on a better path forward ahead of a possible new surge he compared to a “hurricane.
But Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told"Meet the Press" Sunday he doesn’t believe the science is clear yet on the issue, and that studying whether that path forward could be better would take too much time. “What we have right now, and what we must go with, is the scientific data that we’ve accumulated. And it’s really solid,” Fauci said.
“You can do both, you can get as many people in their first dose at the same time as adhering, within reason, to the timetable of the second dose. It would be great to have the study, but I don’t think we could do it in time.”There’s been a decline in daily coronavirus cases and new deaths, according to an NBC News analysis, in recent days, after a post-holiday peak. It’s been almost three weeks since the daily new caseload hit 200,000.
Tell the truth & save your tooth! WTF is the ingredients in this vaccine?
Dr. Fauci is working so hard for our people. Let him get his rest. Please!!
Dr. Fauci is a good person...I believe him and science.
He’s useless
There they are practicing medicine again, cant agree with themselves but we are suppose to accept as science. Which opinion do we follow, the one from the Doctor or the one from the other Doctor?
EARTH LISTEN UP Covid Solution ? 'Live through it' Social distancy Safety-masks_vaccins Evening/Night-curfew TACKLE ! Unhygienic_homesteads.. ? Animal transmitted Covid.. ? Aerosols : bacteria_viruses.. ?
In fact the Biden administration recently floated a suggestion that providers not hold back vaccines for second doses. Thank God Fauci is still giving it to us straight
The plans submitted to the FDA for the emergency use agreement were for people to get two doses. That is what needs to be followed. This would be like not taking your antibiotic for the full amount of time because you are feeling better.
The only thing that makes any difference is to streamline vaccine deliveries.
The jabbed and the jabbed nots.
Biden/Harris Covid Death Count 58704 and climbing
Experts - can’t live with them, can’t live without them.
Sooo... what does Science say?
He has no clue !! Just like Biden!!
This character to play has to be one of the weirdest to contempt
PattyArquette I was wondering is it ok if u get a dose of each kind or does it have to be the same kind
Hey people, Google how many people were diagnosed with SARS-COV-2 today. I did, wait until you see the answers that is not an answer. Investigating the difference between covid-19 and SARS-COV- 2 had some very interesting and misleading answers. Check out the supposed truth
Uhm the vaccine only works as desired by the manufacturer claims after the second dose. Not that I believe any of these vaccinations are as good as they claim, nor have any side effects that will be dangerous in the future.
Where Fauci goes, I go.
Dr. Fauci has been lying to us since day one. Touting HCQ as a wonder drug for SARS viruses, up until his gates foundation check filled his offshore account. it’s a con people, we’ve been lied to.
He didn't seem to like the way the UK gambled with that approach.
Check out the top tweets on this topic from nbcnews:
It's 2MasksFauci
MeetThePress I think Dr. Fauci is right, because virologists are sounding the alarm that partial immunity could increase the pressure for mutations that evade the vaccine.
MeetThePress Is it still safe poolside with 2 masks?
PattyArquette
MeetThePress Expedite the emergency approval of more vaccines. All essential workers must be vaccinated. Abolish age restrictions to get vaccines. If we don't vaccinate all workers who is going to keep the economy from collapsing. We need more vaccines, cannot wait months & months.
If two masks are better maybe 4 doses are better?
MeetThePress That’s so president Joe can get his 100 million doses in in 100 days.
No mention of vitamins C, D3, zinc and magnesium? No mention that obesity is the 1 co-morbidity for covid19? This sounds like a grounds for malpractice.
fyi Eczacibasi
WTF ? Chuckie Todd & MTP keep trying to float this 'storyline' and Dr. Fauci keeps knocking it down. All that you fools are doing is SCARING the crap out of Seniors who haven't had their 2nd vaccination yet.
Very few are actually reporting facts about Dr. Fauci
fyi GSK
If there's one thing we can all agree on in the USA, is the fack that we love to disagree, no matter the issues
what vaccine?
Please, listen to what he says.
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Anthony OUCHI sings off more song sheets than frank sinatra
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