Dr. Birx, Under Questioning By Jim Jordan: I Can't Say If the Government Was Willfully Lying When It Kept Saying You Couldn't Catch Covid If You Were Vaccinated

Lost amid all the huge Supreme Court news and fresh Insurrections from the left, this astonishing testimony about Fauci's lies from last Thursday's testimony.

The House Oversight and Reform Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis held a hearing with Birx Thursday morning. Jordan questioned Birx on the United States' participation in and funding of the World Health Organization and gain-of-function research. Birx was candid, saying that the United States should withhold funding from the WHO until needed reforms occur. She also said that the U.S. should not participate in some gain-of-function research, such as any in China.

But it was Jordan's questions about the Biden administration's messaging on COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness that should shock the conscience. Jordan asked Birx if the government was lying or guessing when it told the public that people who received the vaccination couldn't get COVID. Birx responded that she did not know. However, she continued, "All I know is there was evidence from the global pandemic that natural reinfection was occurring. Since the vaccine was based on natural immunity, you cannot make the conclusion that the vaccine will do better than natural infection. Although it can often do slightly better."

Why didn't she speak up about this while still in office? Public health "experts" like Dr. Anthony Fauci actively tried to convince Americans that natural immunity was inferior to the jabs....

Jordan went on to challenge Birx about what the government knew and when. "You were part of this effort when you were in the previous administration. And you're saying in this administration that you can't rule out the fact that our government was lying to us when they told us the vaccinated could not get the virus," he charged.

Birx responded, "I don't know about their discussions that they had in the task force. So I can't tell you that." Then, as she often did on the Trump task force, she traded on her personal situation. "I can tell you as a family member who had individuals that were susceptible, of course, we got everybody vaccinated. But we still used layered protection during surges."

So, why was Dr. Birx vaccinated and masked? She continued: "Because I knew potentially vaccine immunity would wane like natural immunity waned. There was evidence that every four months, reinfection was occurring in South Africa." Huh. That seems like it should have been part of informed consent before Americans decided to take an experimental vaccine or give it to their children. Four months of coverage seems like a risk-benefit ratio Americans should have been able to calculate for themselves.

Jordan continued, "When the government told us that the vaccinated couldn't transmit it, was that a lie or is it a guess? Or is it the same answer?" Remember when the anchors on CNN and members of the administration told you to "trust the science"? Do you recall all the accomplished clinicians and researchers who have been silenced and unpersoned over their COVID-19 comments? If so, Birx's response may infuriate you. "I think it was hoped that the vaccine would work in that way," she said.

From Instapundit.

posted by Ace at 02:22 PM

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