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Government Corruption
Birx Says COVID-19 Vaccines Were Never ‘Going to Protect Against Infection'
2022-07-24
[Epoch Times] One of the former U.S. officials who led the COVID-19 response during the Trump administration said July 22 that COVID-19 vaccines were not expected to protect against infection.

"I knew these vaccines were not going to protect against infection. And I think we overplayed the vaccines. And it made people then worry that it’s not going to protect against severe disease and hospitalization," Deborah Birx, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator under former President Donald Trump, said during an appearance on Fox News.

The Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines were granted emergency use authorization in late 2020 to prevent symptomatic COVID-19, and were promoted by many health officials, including Birx.

"This is one of the most highly-effective vaccines we have in our infectious disease arsenal. And so that’s why I’m very enthusiastic about the vaccine," Birx said on an ABC podcast at the time.

She made no mention of concerns the vaccines might not protect against infection.
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Posted by:Bobby

#21  KBK, your first pass at the link had the right angle bracket in the wrong place.
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-07-24 22:00  

#20  Send in the HHS Clowns
Posted by: KBK   2022-07-24 20:04  

#19  Send in the HHS Clowns
Posted by: KBK   2022-07-24 20:04  

#18  They only expected 50%, but they unwisely publicized the much higher initial results, which soon diminished. See the link to part 2 at the bottom.
Posted by: KBK   2022-07-24 19:53  

#17  yeah.

These people belong in federal pound me in the ass penitentiary
Posted by: newc   2022-07-24 18:20  

#16  drop that bitch off the scaffold by that scarf.
Posted by: Chris   2022-07-24 17:42  

#15  My personal physicians staff are Covid wack jobs.

My cardiologist (Mr. 'One Beer a Day' Guy) told me last month "You need to get boosted". A few seconds before that, I noticed he had Harvard cuff links on. I wasn't even going to try to argue with him, and I'll cite the ol' Howie Carr line - 'you can tell a Harvard man, but you can't tell him much'. I don't want to be on a bike ride and wind up like the hundreds of soccer players dropping on the pitch from 'unexpected' heart attacks.

The next checkup should be interesting...
Posted by: Raj   2022-07-24 14:15  

#14  "So sorry madame. We must take your scarf before you mount the scaffold..."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-07-24 13:17  

#13  No no no.
The sales pitch was:

Immunity now, Immunity forever!11!

Until then, do your part and stay locked in your house. Moral officers will visit your blog shortly and check on your wellness. Orange man bad.

And scarf prop here wasn't the only one sneering that a civilized, educated person's place is under the desk, and that only a provincial superstitious rube would want to leave their home and menace society.

And don't forget those who were like, "Businesses don't need income so they don't need to be open until whenever, so businesses which close were run by morons."
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-07-24 13:15  

#12  ^ They will never be able to use this trick again. They always burn down the latest scam they attempt on the first try.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-07-24 12:52  

#11  The demand for liability exemption by big pharma was the key to what followed. Do something to look like you have answers and quell rising panic gave us paper masks, risky vax, and pontificating politicians who discovered the power of health rish fear as a tool for massive political advantage.

But when early on, the CDC/NIH moved to block existing hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin treatments to push the massive overbuy of the vax, the Puppet Show government seemed to have moved into the big pharma corruption phase.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2022-07-24 12:48  

#10  We learned lots from the SARS outbreak.

A murderous gnome willfully threw all of that information out. Including the treatment-with-HCQ discovery.

But they sure showed Trump!
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2022-07-24 09:29  

#9  I met a 30-yr NIH official on while vacationing in Europe and he said that the CDC/NIH response to Covid was a hasty and effective to the pandemic, including that they learned nothing from the 2009 SARs outbreak. He believes that masks are a joke.
Posted by: jack salami   2022-07-24 09:19  

#8  Early on, doctors and nurses got hit harder than most--probably because they got higher doses from their patients than most of us get from everyday interactions.
Posted by: James   2022-07-24 08:48  

#7  ^ Even money is, what they are afraid of is what COVID hysteria is doing to their profession.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-07-24 08:33  

#6  /\ I have several physicians as neighbors. Variety of specialists. They all seem to be very afraid of Covid to this day.

Like many of us, the phase "naturally occurring" as related to COVID, may not be in their lexicon.

Posted by: Besoeker   2022-07-24 07:50  

#5  Hopefully Birx is not your physician Tom. She should go to jail.
Posted by: Xyz   2022-07-24 07:50  

#4  'You can take someone's DNA and design a weapon that can kill them': House intelligence committee member warns people not to share health data with sites like 23andMe because it can be used to program new bio-weapons to target them
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-07-24 07:49  

#3  I have several physicians as neighbors. Variety of specialists. They all seem to be very afraid of Covid to this day. My personal physicians staff are Covid wack jobs. Can’t even have a conversation about Covid with them.
Posted by: Xyz   2022-07-24 07:47  

#2  When I have medical questions, I ask my doctor (who has taken excellent care of me for the last 22 years.) I do not ask politicians or people who read the news on TV. My doctor went to medical school, has an MD, has practiced medicine for 30+ years, keeps up with research, and has consistently steered me right for the last 22 years. Why would I listen to anyone else?

The moral: When you have health questions, find a professional who you can trust, who knows what he's doing, and who has your best interests at heart. And then follow their advice. You really don't need to listen to idiot politicians and news readers.
Posted by: Tom   2022-07-24 07:27  

#1  The fundamental political instinct is always "Do something!"

It's no mistake that the Hippocratic Oath Begins "First, do no harm."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-07-24 07:08  

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