Fauci says polio would still exist in the US if the ‘false information’ currently being spread existed decades ago
Published 10:02 PM EDT, Sat July 17, 2021If the health misinformation currently spreading regarding coronavirus vaccines existed during the days of polio, it would have never been eradicated, Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, said Saturday.
Asked by CNN’s Jim Acosta about the misinformation spread by Fox News regarding the Covid-19 vaccines, Fauci said, “We probably would still have polio in this country if we had the kind of false information that’s being spread now.”
He added, “If we had that back decades ago, I would be certain that we’d still have polio in this country.”
The statement comes as dangerous falsehoods about Covid-19 vaccines are swirling and as health experts warn of the more transmissible Delta variant’s increasing spread among unvaccinated Americans.
Nationwide vaccination rates are dropping, while in 46 states, the rates of new Covid cases this past week are at least 10% higher than the rates of new cases the previous week, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told Acosta the vaccines are shown to be “highly effective in preventing symptomatic, clinically apparent disease.”
Yet less than half of the US population – 48.5%, per the latest data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – are fully vaccinated. And it’s the communities with lower vaccination rates that are at risk.
“Despite the rise of the Delta variant, still 97% of people who are hospitalized or killed by this virus are unvaccinated,” said Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia and a member of the US Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory committee. “If the Delta variant were escaping, essentially, immunity induced by vaccination, then you should have seen a rise in people who are vaccinated, but nonetheless were still hospitalized and killed. And that hasn’t happened.”
Among those states that have fully vaccinated less than half of their residents, the average Covid-19 case rate was 11 new cases per 100,000 people last week, compared to 4 per 100,000 among states that have fully vaccinated more than half of their residents, according to a CNN analysis of data from Johns Hopkins University.“If you look at the extraordinary success in eradicating smallpox and eliminating polio for most of the world – and we’re on the brink of eradicating polio – if we had had the pushback for vaccines the way we’re seeing on certain media, I don’t think it would’ve been possible at all to not only eradicate smallpox, we probably would still have smallpox,” said Fauci.
Polio once was a common virus. In some young children it can affect the nerves and cause muscle weakness or paralysis. There is no treatment and no cure but getting vaccinated can prevent infection.
Just in August 2020, polio was eradicated from Africa after governments and non-profits had worked since 1996 to eliminate the virus with sustained vaccination campaigns.
Polio has now been eradicated in the Americas, Southeast Asia, Europe, most of Australasia and in Africa. Wild strains of polio circulate now in only two countries: Afghanistan and Pakistan.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/17/us/fauci-polio-coronavirus-false-information/index.html
How the world is STILL vulnerable to polio: Vaccine uptake map reveals how DOZENS of countries including US and UK are below key threshold needed to contain virus
- WHO data shows 114 of 160 nations have not jabbed at least 95% against polio
- UK health chiefs revealed country could be seeing a resurgence of the disease
- Experts have warned virus can spread more easily if too few people are jabbed
By Emily Craig Health Reporter For Mailonline
Published: | Updated:
More than 100 countries fail to meet key polio vaccination uptake targets and are vulnerable to the paralysis-causing virus, official figures suggest.
Data from the World Health Organization shows 114 of 160 nations have not hit its threshold of 95 per cent coverage in one-year-olds.
UK health chiefs yesterday revealed that the country could be seeing a resurgence of the disease for the first time in decades after strains were detected in sewage.
Experts deem having more than nine in 10 people in every community vaccinated crucial to prevent the highly contagious virus from spreading.
Being vaccinated is even more important for children than adults because they are more likely to catch and therefore fall ill with the disease.
While the majority will experience mild or no symptoms at all, for as many as one in 100, it can cause permanent paralysis or death.
Among the vulnerable countries are the UK and US, where overall uptake nationally is as low as 93 per cent. But in parts of Africa, as few as four in 10 are immunised.
And 35 nations, including France, Germany and Portugal, have not shared their polio uptake data — meaning even lower numbers could be protected in some places.
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中世の「黒死病」、起源はどこ? 中央アジア説にDNAが示す新証拠
アカヒちゃんがこんな話しだしましたぜw
×ポリオはアフガニスタンとパキスタンを除いて根絶されました
〇英国の下水から菌株が検出された
∴英国にカレー屋が多い てねww
100年前の流行り病
50年前には米ソワクチン戦争ww
で、ワクチンの傍ら
人工呼吸器普装備、ICU爆誕@コペンハーゲン ですもんね
毎度毎度
記念プレートで食べるカレーはおいしいですか?
実のところポリオとは
絶対に診断せずにいたとかw
アフガンとパキスタンに
市中感染があるならば
その地域からの入国者から
感染が拡大する可能性が常に
ナイジェリアも感染例あるようで
ナイジェリアとパキスタンからの
入国が不法含めて少なくない日本も実は
そんな嫌なヲチも心しないといけないかにゃ
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