On Sunday, Chief White House medical advisor and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr Anthony Fauci called for Americans hesitant to get the coronavirus vaccine to "put aside" their concerns about personal liberty and recognize the "common enemy" of COVID-19.
In an appearance on CBS's "Face The Nation," Fauci said that despite many Americans now being vaccinated against COVID-19, mitigation actions must still be enacted.
"You have to get the overwhelming proportion of people vaccinated, but you also have to do mitigation, and that gets to the controversial issue of mask wearing, and the mandating of things. Mandating vaccines, for example, for teachers and ... personnel in the school," said Fauci, according to The Hill.
Fauci goes on to address that while breakthrough cases have been recorded, it is unvaccinated Americans that are getting seriously ill and dying from the virus.
"It's the unvaccinated that are doing that, so we have a lot of tasks. We've got to do mitigation. Put aside all of these issues of concern about liberties and personal liberties and realize we have a common enemy and that common enemy is the virus," Fauci said. "And we really have to go together to get on top of this. Otherwise, we're going to continue to suffer as we're seeing right now."
Host Nancy Cordes goes on to ask Fauci whether eligible individuals should get the Moderna third booster shot regardless of their initial doses, citing recent research that proved Moderna is more effective than Pfizer at protecting against the delta variant, to which Fauci disagreed with the suggestion.
"First of all, it's a preprint study, It hasn't been fully peer-reviewed and I don't doubt what they're seeing, but there are a lot of confounding variables," he said.
The sentiment expressed by Fauci mirrors a similar one made last week in an interview with MSNBC, in which he urged for local governments and schools to mandate vaccines for teachers.
"I'm sorry, I mean, I know people must like to have their individual freedom and not be told to do something, but I think we're in such a serious situation now, that under certain circumstances, mandates should be done," he said.
Join and support independent free thinkers!
We’re independent and can’t be cancelled. The establishment media is increasingly dedicated to divisive cancel culture, corporate wokeism, and political correctness, all while covering up corruption from the corridors of power. The need for fact-based journalism and thoughtful analysis has never been greater. When you support The Post Millennial, you support freedom of the press at a time when it's under direct attack. Join the ranks of independent, free thinkers by supporting us today for as little as $1.
Remind me next month
To find out what personal data we collect and how we use it, please visit our Privacy Policy
