White House medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci predicted final yr he couldn’t foresee a scenario wherein the federal government would mandate a coronavirus vaccine.
“I don’t think you’ll ever see a mandating of vaccine, particularly for the general public,” Fauci said throughout a city corridor with Healthline.com in August 2020.
The concept, in accordance to Fauci, was unimaginable.
“If somebody refuses the vaccine in most people, then there’s nothing you are able to do about that. You cannot force somebody to take a vaccine,” he said at the time.
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Fauci’s prediction has just one caveat: medical professionals.
“When you’re in the medical sector, depending on the policy of a hospital, the hospital may say — if you refuse to take a given vaccine, whether that’s a hepatitis vaccine, or a flu vaccine or perhaps even the COVID vaccine, that you might not be able to have person-to-person contact with patients,” he predicted.
Less than 12 months later, residents of Washington, D.C., and San Francisco have been required to prove one of the widely available coronavirus vaccinations to enter restaurants, gyms, or entertainment venues.
Also, all federal employees, including military members, have been required to receive the vaccine.
Just last month, President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser changed his mind from last year and advocated for more vaccine mandates.
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“I have been of this opinion, and I remain of that opinion that I do believe at the local level, Jake, there should be more mandates,” Fauci informed CNN’s State of the Union host, Jake Tapper. “There actually ought to be. We’re speaking about [a] life-and-death scenario. We’ve misplaced 600,000 Americans already, and we’re nonetheless shedding extra folks.”
Dr. Fauci additionally referred to as for the Food and Drug Administration to approve the vaccine so “a lot more mandates” might be carried out.
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“This is serious business, so I am in favor of that,” he said. “You know, one of the things that will happen, and I think the hesitancy at the local level of doing mandates is because the vaccines have not been officially, fully approved, but people need to understand that the amount of data right now that shows a high degree of effectiveness and a high degree of safety is more than we’ve ever seen with emergency use authorization.”
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Original Author: Lawrence Richard
Original Location: Last yr, Fauci said ‘you cannot force somebody’ to get COVID-19 vaccine
