WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The United States is in an “unnecessary predicament” of soaring COVID-19 cases fueled by unvaccinated Americans and the virulent delta variant, the nation’s top infectious diseases expert said Sunday.
“We’re going in the wrong direction,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, describing himself as “very frustrated.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci says US is "going in the wrong direction" as the number of Covid-19 cases continues to rise, particularly among unvaccinated Americans. https://t.co/BtMUrX2WfD #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/QxPOQ3d2J3
— State of the Union (@CNNSotu) July 25, 2021
He said recommending that the vaccinated wear masks is “under active consideration” by the government’s leading public health officials. Also, booster shots may be suggested for people with suppressed immune systems who have been vaccinated, Fauci said.
Fauci chirping this weekend the vaccinated may well be back behind masks soon. Proving this isn’t about anything other than control. It’s sure as hell not science.
— Chris Stigall (@ChrisStigall) July 25, 2021
Fauci, who also serves as President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, told CNN’s “State of the Union” that he has taken part in conversations about altering the mask guidelines.
He noted that some local jurisdictions where infection rates are surging, such as Los Angeles County, are already calling on individuals to wear masks in indoor public spaces regardless of vaccination status. Fauci said those local rules are compatible with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendation that the vaccinated do not need to wear masks in public.
Nearly 163 million people, or 49% of the eligible U.S. population, are vaccinated, according to CDC data.
“This is an issue predominantly among the unvaccinated, which is the reason why we’re out there, practically pleading with the unvaccinated people to go out and get vaccinated,” Fauci said.
Fauci said government experts are reviewing early data as they consider whether to recommend that vaccinated individuals to get booster shots. He suggested that some of the most vulnerable, such as organ transplant and cancer patients, are “likely” to be recommended for booster shots.
He also praised Republicans, including Govs. Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas and Ron DeSantis of Florida, and the second-ranking House leader, Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, for encouraging their constituents to get vaccinated. Their states have among the lowest vaccination rates in the country.
“What I would really like to see is more and more of the leaders in those areas that are not vaccinating to get out and speak out and encourage people to get vaccinated,” Fauci said.
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The frustration is all ours, Fauci. Whom do you think has been inconvenienced the most since the panicdemic sprang upon us? We have had to ;endure lockdowns, sheltering in place, mask mandates, reduced social interaction. Restaurants, schools, and churches have been restricted mercilessly. Graduating students and senior citizens have missed once-in-a-lifetime celebrations and events. There has been a never-ending parade of misinformation and contradictory information from you, the government, the WHO, the CDC. Experts seemingly cannot agree on what is fact and what is fiction.
You people have been caught numerous times flaunting the rules that you throw out for the rest of us to comply with—and it is blown off and met with some of the lamest excuses. The Southern border crisis allows a constant influx of untested and unvaccinated illegal immigrants who are spread all over the country, no doubt causing a spike in the numbers and increasing risks for the rest of us. While screaming about health concerns, the whole thing has been a political power grab to control the lives of American citizens.
And YOU are frustrated? Who gives a damn?
Very well said Thunder!
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is hiding which hospitals and nursing homes have it. The agency seems to think it’s OK to keep the public in the dark to protect these businesses.
Fauci is the little boy who cried WOLF once too often, now body would believe him even if the Bubonic Plauge broke out. With so many bug infested rats in Washington on thier payroll I’m suprized this has not happened yet, although they HAVE managed to serve up their own warped version of the black death which is still topping record numbers in Democrat run cities like Chicago.
Since we keep seeing reports YEARLY, about how ACTUAL RATS infest many of these dem cities, i am surprised they’ve not had a bubonic like plague, SWEEP THROUGH those cities….
Wow, you must have been reading my mind ! That is just what I was thinking.
He doesn’t care as long as he keeps getting his income.
Not sure if it is the money or the constant feeding of his narcissist self worth!
Faux-chee should be in prison for what he’s done.
HE and all those other traitors shouldn’t be allowed to spend ONE DAY rotting in jail on OUR TAX PAYER DIME.. Swiftly execute them i say.
along with the entire democrat party & half the republican party. I’d put 5 of them in a 4 person cell, let them work it out , who gets to sleep on the floor.
I’d rather stick them all in the next rocket we launch into space, on a ONE WAY TRIP out of the solar system!
I have never cared what Dr Fauci had to say. Who is this toady? He’s just the nation’s leading science mafia blackmailer. Why would I listen to him? I haven’t done even one thing that he said to do. I never wore masks. I didn’t shut my business down (some business owners had more trouble doing that than I did, and I try to support those people). Vaccines? Why would I have anything to do with that garbage? It took more work to get things done, but I consider the resistance worth the effort.
Have we not taken into consideration Faucci that the policies of the bin biden admin has let numerously infect people over our borders and distributed them across the continental US.
Let’s cal the rise what it is an invasion of non US citizens who are infected. Isn’t this a biochemical and germ warfare scenario that our government is allowing?
The puppet parrot Biden cabal needs corrupt, obedient co-conspirators to divide the country.
It appears that Dr. Anthony Fauci is akin to “Beaky Buzzard” “just bring home something”.
IMO That is EXACTLY WHY they are SENDING all those infected invaders across the nation like they are..
SO Those illegals, can INFECT MORE AND MORE AMERICANS, to punish middle america for DARING to vote for trump.
Nagging is the very term to be used for Dr. Fauci. He has overstayed his welcome as the arbiter of all things COVID. Much of what he told us has been discredited or has been contradicted by his own words. This coupled with the ‘misinformation’ control ideas is the final straw. Any trust there might have been in his words has been lost.
Dr. Fauci, the criminal who funded gain of function research in the Wuhan Lab in communist China, should be tried as a criminal, for millions of deaths and the destruction of economies all over the world.
Should be tried…
Then promptly hung, drawn and quartered. LIVE ON Pay per view!
You get the beer, i will get the popcorn!
Tried? by who? the criminal judges in America these days? He should be tried by the people, tarred & feathered and ran over a cliff, with a big sign around his neck “This is what happens to American traitors, liars and cheats. Post it on youtube and run it continuously for years. Maybe the rest of the idiots will get the message.
Had the Biden Administration embraced and honored the work that the Trump Administration did on all the successes of getting the PPE, Ventilators produced and distributed PLUS getting three Vaccines before trump left office, MAYBE people would not have been as hesitant to get vaccinated.
Also, Biden & Harris said they would not get or take a “Trump” Vaccine.
They are total losers and misfits for the job they were “Elected” for.
This little troll should be in prison, with his lips sutured shut.
I no longer hear what disinformation ‘the Fauch’ is spreading…
He could be telling me, the sky is blue, and i would have to stick my head out of a window, TO VERIFY IT for myself…
He says the local mask mandates in L.A. are compatible with the CDC recommendation that vaccinated people don’t need to wear masks? No wonder his credibility is shot. Add that to the lengthy list of misinformation coming from him:
— shut down for 2-3 weeks to flatten the curve
— the virus rests on surfaces – wipe everything down constantly
— defends China and the WHO handling of the outbreak
— obfuscates the origin of the outbreak, absolutely refusing to consider the Wuhan Lab source
— lies about funding the Wuhan Lab gain of function research
— masks don’t work, but you should wear two of them
— refuses to comment on the porous border and the impact in cases
— doesn’t address the fact that the UK reports 40% of new cases are with vaccinated people
I’m so tired of him – please make him go away
If Faux-chee is “frustrated”, then maybe he should seek the company from a “lady of the evening”..
“Person of the evening”, I believe.
Vaccination is a personal choice. The COVID vaccines are NOT FDA Approved. They have been granted Emergency Use Authorization as they are experiential drugs. In addition to this federal law, the FDA includes the Nuremberg Code and the Helsinki Declaration on its website, emphasizing the fact that people cannot be forced to take experimental drugs without their full consent. In addition they cannot be harassed or coerced into taking a NON FDA approved medicine. So everyone taking the vaccines are willfully a volunteer subject in a medical experiment.
We call the ones taking the “vaccine” lab rats. It’s not really a vaccine so why do they calling it that????
Drifter.. TELL That too all those courts, who have already RULED that businesses/schools etc, CAN MANDATE FOLKS get the shot or get fired…
Frustrated? Really?
Well I am frustrated by a so-called doctor who changes his advise often yet refuses to acknowledge established meds that can and should be used to prevent / treat covid. Instead, the ONLY way he wants to deal with the problem is useless masks and highly dangerous shots (which are of limited effectiveness).
I am a LOT MORE than just merely Frustrated…
to the point of P’OED?
A hell of a lot more than p-oed..
We are suppose to get the jab to protect us from sick foreigners who came in from thousands of miles and sent to live next door to us?
Did you hear that one nutter in Chicago?? Supposedly (as per a news clip i saw around 3pm), he is wanting to make it mandatory for ALL, not just Govt workers, to get the vaccine, and if folks refuse, PUNISH THEM via fines/jail time etc….
Fauci IS an old nag, just like an ex wife.
Grouchy Fauci is just worried the US public will figuratively, if not literally, rise up in force to tar & feather or at least burn him in effigy for his criminal malpractice & his proven self serving lies & desperate attempt to deny / cover up his responsibility for taxpayer funded illegal gain of function research at Wuhan lab that has led to China control of deadly bio-weapon viruses.
Fauci in self serving collusion with the Marxist Dem Party govt / China corp profiteers is using media lies, propaganda & hostility as well as Tech & Corp mandated ostracism & censorship & govt threats of criminalizing the unmasked &/or unvaccinated as part of their effort to create at “warp speed” a dictatorship in US that will put the constitutional rights, freedom & liberty of working class Americans under their total control.
I heard, from a good friend, that on one reddit sub-site, that some folks were literally calling for us “Unvaccinated people’, to get ROUNDED UP and given an on the spot choice.. TAKE the vaccine, OR TAKE A Bullet to the head..”
ANd after hearing folks like James Cordan, going so far to say “PUNCH Unvaccinated folks in the mouth”, i can certainly BELIEVE IT!
I could not have said it better. God bless you
Let me be very clear Doc., I don’t believe you, I don’t trust you either. The more you insist / the more I resist! YOU sir have depleted your credibility. Nothing left for you to do but crawl in a hole and die.
Well, when Fauci and the democrats stop the invasion of our country with infected illegals, (900% increase in illegal’s infected with this virus that they invited to invade us) and actually does something about China’s bio weapons that Fauci and China infected us with THEIR gain of function that was deliberately engineered to be more lethal so it would kill us, maybe we could listen a little better…………. NOT!!! NEVER!!! We, who are not in a coma, KNOW that he is a habitual elite liar who is incapable of telling the truth, or even caring about the truth, and certainly not WE THE PEOPLE in our country, not even one tiny scintilla. It’s all about their absolute power, absolute control, and absolute greed of OUR paychecks,…… that’s all that matters to them.
I don’t trust this communist depopulation Fauci, and depopulation Gates, or anyone in the communist depopulation demonRAT party maifa regime, any farther than I can pick up an elephant and throw it.
Since President Trump got out of office, the virus is raging again BECAUSE Biden opened our border wide open for the thousands upon thousands of illegals who he KNEW are carrying this new Delta variant into our country. And the democrats are deliberately placing them all in every state so that they can infect more people…. I think to make sure that the virus infects as many as they can.
They did this in 2019 to make sure that they could send out those mail in ballots for their fraud election. Now, the 2022 election is coming up, and they need more voter fraud to shut us down again. They care nothing about who gets sick and nothing about who dies, and it is proven that you can get that jab, both shots, and still get the virus and still infect others. Tell me, what is the purpose if you can still get it, still infect others, and still die? There are documented cases of fully vaccinated people dying from getting the virus after being vaccinated.
So, why are they pushing this jab if it doesn’t stop you from getting it or stop you from infecting others? Please explain this to all who are so afraid to get that poison. When you get the jab you are playing Russian Roulette. So, a year from now, who is going to be worse off than they were before they got that experimental poison injected into their system? Because it reprograms your mRNA. I don’t like being lied to when it comes to ME protecting MY body.