Dr. Anthony Fauci has admitted that he made his last mistake in guiding the coronavirus, this time when he believes the pandemic will be “under control,” apologizing saying, “My bad guy.”
The White House coronavirus tsar had told NPR on Monday that if enough people were vaccinated, the United States could “have good control over it” in the fall or winter of next year.
But I asked by CNN’s Anderson Cooper later that day, Fauci, who has been under repeated fire for rejecting his public advice since the early days of the pandemic, said he really thinks control will come even sooner.
“Anderson, I have to apologize. When I heard the tape, it meant the spring of 2022, so I spoke badly, ”he said.
He insisted that if “the vast majority of the 90 million people who have not been vaccinated” get shot “I hope we can have good control in the spring of 2022.”
“I did not want to say the fall: the word was missing. My bad, ”he said.
Asked to clarify what he meant by control, he said he was “back to a certain degree of normalcy,” such as “restaurants, theaters, that sort of thing.”
“But again, there’s a big caveat: it’s a very cunning virus,” he told the CNN host, warning that the timeline could easily change, even if everyone follows his advice.
“We thought we would have that degree of freedom as we entered the fourth of July and the summer. And then there is a punch with the Delta variant, which has an extraordinary capacity to spread from person to person, ”he said.
“So we expect to be there in the time period I mentioned, being the spring of 2022 right, but there is no guarantee because it is up to us,” he said.
“If we continue to go unvaccinated to those people who should be vaccinated, this thing could persist, which would lead to the development of another variant that could complicate things.”
Fauci advised even those who have antibodies from a previous infection to get vaccinated because it gives “a huge increase in the degree of protection.”
He also said that “the time has come” for companies, universities and the military to “mandate” vaccines.
“I think that’s good,” he said.
“I respect the freedom of the people, but when you talk about a public health crisis that we are experiencing more than a year and a half ago, the time has come.
“Enough is enough. We just vaccinated people,” he insisted.
However, when asked what percentage of the population would need to get the shot to achieve the expected result, he gave a scientific answer far from it.
“With all transparency and honesty, we don’t know,” he said.
“He [percentage] it could be 90, it could be 85 – we don’t know what it is.
“You just need to vaccinate as many people as possible and when you get control, that’s the number,” he said.
When the pandemic began to spread across the United States, Fauci initially said the masks were unnecessary, before making everyone wear them.
A few months ago, he also said that no reinforcement shots were needed before they were recently offered, and that he was also among those who dismissed the leaked contagion from a Chinese lab, before acknowledging that it is a possibility.
However, he has repeatedly insisted that someone attacking his messaging is really attacking science, insisting that information is constantly evolving.