"So I made a calculation that COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, is not nearly as transmissible. "When you get below 90% of the population vaccinated with measles, you start seeing a breakthrough against herd immunity - people starting to get infected like we saw in the upper New York state and in New York City with the Orthodox Jewish group when we had measles outbreak," Fauci said. On Sunday, Fauci said a shift from 70% to 85% was "really not a leap," and he was basing projections on the vaccination rates necessary to achieve herd immunity against measles. "Then, when newer surveys said 60 percent or more would take it, I thought, ‘I can nudge this up a bit,’ so I went to 80, 85." "When polls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I was saying herd immunity would take 70 to 75 percent," Fauci said last week. When you can't just "trust the science" because the scientists keep lying to you and then saying, "oh, that was just a noble lie, sorry about that." /hl06rjM7tA- Ross Douthat December 24, 2020
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