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Over the weekend, the American public finally learned that the vaccinated were being forced to wear masks again because of a massive outlier in Massachusetts where vaccinated people at a beach gathering had a high viral load in their nasal pharynx. And when press on the data during an appearance on CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday, Dr. Anthony Fauci claimed that viral load meant the vaccinated were spreading it at the same rate as the unvaccinated. But Fauci would be later proven wrong by a high-ranking Israeli public health official and a former FDA commissioner.
CBS moderator John Dickerson began by asking Fauci what new understanding did U.S. health officials possess that lead them to make their recommendation. And after avoiding the questions for a bit, Fauci eventually claimed: “When you look at the level of virus in the nasal pharynx of people who are vaccinated who get breakthrough infections, it’s really quite high and equivalent to the level of virus in the nasal pharynx of unvaccinated people who get infected.”
Looking for the details Fauci skirted around, Dickerson wondered if it was “true that the ability to spread is high, or is it a smaller subset of the breakthrough cases in which this discovery was made about the ability to spread?” Again, Fauci suggested that the viral load was “very similar to the unvaccinated individual. Which is troublesome. Which tells you the potential for transmission is there.”
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