How many times can a media-proclaimed “leading expert” miss the mark and legitimately hold the title “America’s Doctor”?
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Loyal readers know that I’m not a Fauci fan … and haven’t been for a long time … ever since he morphed from “scientist” to “political-scientist” … and hit the cable news circuit, spreading oft-erroneous, constantly “evolving” psuedo-science.
Now that a children’s book is being launched to enshrine Fauci, I think it’s appropriate to flashback on the good doctor’s most significant mis-steps:
- He originally said that the COVID risk to Americans was miniscule
- He opposed the Chinese travel ban as unnecessary or, at least, premature
- He illogically told people not to wear masks since they won’t help and would deplete PPE stockpiles. Only the latter was true.
- He grossly misled Congress regarding the COVID death rate (by an order of magnitude!), conflating the conflation of the Infection Fatality Rate (IFR) and Case Fatality Rate (CFR). The CFR (of which Fauci was likely referring) is about 10 times the IFR. Source
- He championed the “15 days to stop the spread” … using the widely discredited projection of 2 million “do nothing” deaths to seal the deal with Trump. (Note: the 15 day program has had an anniversary and still has a head of steam).
- He lauded Cuomo’s “Gold Standard” response to COVID … despite highest death count (over 35,000), 2nd highest fatality rate (NJ is #1), wasted resources (think: a hospital ship, field hospitals and ventilators), an economic disaster in NYC and, oh yeah, a crushing 2nd wave of COVIID.
- He admitted to boosting his estimate of the herd immunity threshold “partly based on new science and partly on his gut feeling that the country is finally ready to hear what he really thinks.” Source
- He led the charge to close the schools (but now concedes to closing the bars, but opening the schools)
- And, back in March, 2020 he proclaimed that “it will take a year or more to develop a Coronavirus vaccine.”
Well, Dr. Leading Expert, the Pfizer vaccine was approved on December 11, 2020 and the 100 millionth dose was administered on March 12, 2021 … and the country will be vaccinated way before Fauci told Americans that the 1st vaccine would be available … thanks to Trump’s Operation Warp Speed!
Perhaps some day, Fauci will rush to CNN to say “Trump was right, I was wrong.”
I won’t hold my breath …
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P.S. Because of Fauci’s pessimism re: the speed of vaccine development, many (most? all but West Virginia?) procrastinated readying their vaccination distribution networks … control of which they (the states) demanded.
That caused the the initial launch to sputter.
That not withstanding, again, the country will be vaccinated way before Fauci told Americans that the 1st vaccine would be available.
That’s a gigantic miss by “America’s doctor”.
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