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© Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Fauci confident virus vaccine will get to Americans in 2021
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and MATTHEW PERRONE WASHINGTON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
50 Comments
OssanAmerica
It;s a great headline that brings us all hope. But....will the vaccine work? Will it have side effects? And more importantly, will it be made available to everybody? Not just the middle class and above who have private medical insurance??
Simon Foston
Is this Gibberish for "it kills conservatives so it's good"?
SuperLib
Im sorry, maybe you missed my point. For months you've been discrediting this man's opinion but once he says something positive about Trump you quote him?
Looks like you have both sides covered.
ClippetyClop
Maybe he doesn't want to get sucked into the diseased right wing political mincer like you desperately want him to.
"Fauci didn't bite."
Strangerland
Yeah how dare he be all logic, data and fact based when you’re busy trying to be hyper partisan. Doesn’t he realize he’s causing trump difficulties because people compare trumps personality to his?
plasticmonkey
Good little lickspittle, Jimmy Jordan! You can put a gold star in your sticker book. Your big boss man is well pleased.
Now put on a mask.
Jim Jordan is one of these annoying jerks like Ted Cruz who don’t actually hold an opinion but think their sophistry is clever and persuasive.
ulysses
The likes of Gym Jordan scream the loudest because they have the most to hide!!!
Blacklabel
Dr. Fauci says Trump leadership saved lives and that he was in agreement on the decisions.
Did stopping flights from China and Europe save lives?
Fauci: "Yes."
Did early domestic strategies to slow the spread save lives?
Fauci: "I believe it did.
ulysses
Gym Jordon’s asking a doctor about a political protest!!!
Brainless is an understatement for such people who will use every opportunity to please their master.
Once trump has been kicked out he will be the first to turn on him.
I wish he used the same acoustic abilities when the students came to Gym for support !!!
ulysses
Gym Jordan is an embarrassment to the house, though He has to compete with the likes of Yoho, Gohmert, Gaetz, Nunes ....
plasticmonkey
So you advise Trump to fire Fauci?
You would think after all of Trump’s whining about Fauci he would have found someone else. Maybe he can hire Dr. Stella Immanuel.
SuperLib
Black:. Dr. Fauci says Trump leadership saved lives
Bass:. Fauci has been wrong so many times
Let the debate begin.
Vanessa Carlisle
And what is the success rate on that vaccine likely to be? 25? 50 percent?
ulysses
Gym Jordan forgot to bring up the fact that his master trump’s Tulsa rally already has one known fatality, Cain.
He somehow doesn’t have any concern for holding rallies with most attendees not wearing masks.
Vanessa Carlisle
If you think I am being an "uniformed skeptic" then please tell me a likely effective range of a possible Covid 19 vaccine. And if you refuse to stick your neck out citing "uncertainties" then have the decency to explain what is so very wrong about citing the flu vaccine range as a possible range for it.
Was that snipe even necessary?
plasticmonkey
Answer: because he’s a doctor and doesn’t want to take political sides. If Jordan had asked Fauci whether the Tulsa rally contributed to a rise in infections, Fauci would have declined to answer as well.
Jim Jordan is a dumb person’s idea of a smart guy.
And it’s amazing how Fauci is now being painted as a liberal simply because he doesn’t agree with Trump’s medical theories.
plasticmonkey
Jim Jordan will do anything to make his boss happy. Just ask those wrestlers at Ohio State who Jordan threw under the bus.
Strangerland
You just don't get how he adjusts his recommendations based on data as he gets it, instead of based on what political affiliation he is trying to appease. Got it.
ulysses
I am not speculating about the effectiveness of a vaccine that’s not yet released, because I am not qualified to do so.
Neither was this
commanteer
So many people are warped by politics in the US especially that of course they don't see it. They have the same disease. A large part of the population has been turned into brainless partisan fanatics by the media, politicians and the "education" system. History has seem this story 100s of times before. Always ends in disaster.
ulysses
As I said before Dr. Fauci is hundred times the man trump and his toadies like jordan will ever be.
SuperLib
You don't believe Fauci because he got it wrong too many times. Now you are quoting him?
ulysses
Speculating on stuff you have no idea about!!!
50% is better than 0%.
Each life saved is worth something !!!
Vanessa Carlisle
I never said it wasn't.
I merely asked a question based on the fact that flu vaccines have a success rate of about 50 percent max.
I am real sorry if you find my question inconvenient or the likely answer inconvenient. I may have burst your reassuring dream where a Covid 19 vaccine saved the world all by itself. Sorry about that. Everyone should have dreams.
Strangerland
It must be confusing to you trying to understand someone who changes their ideas according to scientific ideas, data, and facts, rather than based on whether they have an R after their name or not.
ulysses
It amazes me how desperate the nutty right wing is to discredit Dr Fauci, all because he’s been proven and their not so bright leader has an egg on his face.
He’s pleaded multiple times for people to follow social distancing, wear masks but the followers of the brainless president refuse to do so.
Caine is dead, will trump accept responsibility.....
PTownsend
But Trump and his fellow 'elite' couldn't care less. They're so out of touch with the everyday lives of dozens of millions of Americans out of work, with no job prospects, and no healthcare.
During Trump's reign the US has become a full-on plutocracy, a nation run by the rich, for the rich.
It's pretty clear Trump's family and fellow 'elites' will be the first Americans in queue once a vaccine is approved.
SuperLib
Well put.
bass4funk
Again, there are “two sides” to every story, if it’s one thing I have learned from liberals, it’s just that.
Blacklabel
I watched the testimony live.
Fauci is so hesitant to say anything that he feels will anger the liberals and their media. So each time he said something positive about Trump or hopeful about the future, he was forced into it by repeated questioning.
He often tried to make the CDC director or the military office take the question instead. Lame "leadership".
ulysses
If the world was a fair place, Gym Jordan would be treated the same way as Ghislaine!!!!
Strangerland
Um, yeah. It's like when someone gets their eyes fixed with Lasik (or whatever its called). They don't need to keep wearing glasses. There isn't anything magical about this at all.
Blacklabel
it amazes me that people think Fauci isnt playing politics.
He is making a political decision by refusing to state the obvious that protests are large crowds. and if large crowds spread corona, then by default so do protests. But to support the Dem political narrative, he refuses to say the obvious.
Ah_so
If the US doing more tests it's probably because more people are displaying symptoms.
But looking at the data on tests per million, there are ten European countries that are above the USA in the table.
bass4funk
Yeah, that’s more one-sided liberal rant against the man, we heard it all and there are others that disagree. I think it’s good he didn’t let the good Dr. off the hook and confronted him and just do what all liberals want and that’s comply and do without question. Again, good on Jordan for being the hawk he is.
Blacklabel
Fauci knew good and well the he was not allowed to say anything negative about the protests
Jordan caused Fauci to look ridiculous while obviously claiming large crowds were no good while trying not tp identity protests to be the main large crowd we see there days
bass4funk
Fauci has been wrong so many times, we can’t shake hands, but if we want to hookup with people we meet online, no problem. Masks don’t make a difference and now we have to wear it, the guy is all over the place.
Exactly, that’s pretty much it.
bass4funk
As you know, liberals don’t have a logical or rational retort, they just regress into drive by, one pot shots and insults and nothing more.
To put it mildly....
ulysses
I also have nightmares people will die because of uninformed skeptics.
Yes they should, and everyone should have lives too.
Serrano
How come Fauci can't admit that protests and riots contribute to the spread of COVID?
I wish he would make more efforts to get inexpensive and readily available treatments that work to COVID patients.
bass4funk
I’m not the one confused, don’t do the fungi, but please don’t give me that garbage that we have to listen to this guy on everything we don’t and at the same time we can take the advice of other healthcare professionals that say hydroxychloroquine MIGHT actually help in some cases, that ultimately means, we can decide for ourselves to take another opposing point of view when it comes to the various expert opinions that also includes wearing a mask.
bass4funk
Why?
And Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio tried to press Fauci into saying that demonstrations against police violence toward Black Americans spread the virus and should be curbed. Fauci didn't bite.
“You make all kinds of recommendations,” Jordan said, taking aim at Fauci. “You made comments on dating, baseball, and everything you can imagine ... I’m just asking should we try to limit the protesting?”
He’s got a good point, I mean, we know liberals don’t want to be questioned about anything (thank God Jordan is digging into the Good doctor) but it is worth asking and pointing out. We have to stay indoors, can’t work, can’t go to Denny’s or school and have to wear a mask because that could spread the virus, but if other people rob, loot, dismantle, rip up statues and destroy (liberals call it peaceful protesting..go figure) public property, attack people it’s somehow ok and the AI virus wouldn’t spread given the herd mentality?
SuperLib
Um, they are quoting the students directly.
Starbucks
Witch doctor in the White House Sign me up for the daily briefings.
bass4funk
Most conservatives, they just to make it their daily new religion that occupies their minds 24/7
Same, nothing different. But “none” of these rioters and Antifa are practicing social distancing, so there goes that theory out the window.....
I see more political BS at work and that’s No BS.
Christopher Glen
And then, magically, masks won’t be needed anymore.
bass4funk
I get it, but I’m not buying Fauci’s BS.
I think that all the time.
Blacklabel
simple- this time facts and data show that the Fauci statement is correct. Trump saved lives.
You can also tell by his face when he has to say things he doesnt want to. He doesnt want to say that Trump saved lives but has no choice. Now maybe Brad Pitt will get mad and not play him on TV anymore and he will lose his invitations to baseball games.
Like his confused face when he was trying to tap dance around protests being large crowds after he said large crowds spread corona. There are no larger crowds right now than protests, but he was trying to think of anything but those to classifiy as an example of a large crowd.
bass4funk
Jordan tried, but the good Dr. Fauci knew any answer he would give Jordan would call BS about it. I’m starting to think this is an intelligent virus of superior complexity, it kills Conservatives, but liberals are highly resistant to it.
Makes perfect sense.