NYT: Fauci acknowledges moving goalposts on herd immunity from COVID-19 – By Mike Allen (Axios) / Dec 25 2020
Dr. Anthony Fauci has long cited 60% to 70% as the level of COVID infection/vaccination the country would need to achieve herd immunity — for the disease to fade and life to return to normal, writes the New York Times’ Donald G. McNeil Jr.
But, but, but: “About a month ago, he began saying ’70, 75 percent’ in television interviews. And last week, in an interview with CNBC News, he said ’75, 80, 85 percent’ and ’75 to 80-plus percent,'” McNeil writes.
What’s new: “In a telephone interview,” McNeil continues, “Fauci acknowledged that he had slowly but deliberately been moving the goalposts.”
- “He is doing so, he said, partly based on new science, and partly on his gut feeling that the country is finally ready to hear what he really thinks.”
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