Fauci Submits Scientific Paper Stating That He Knew Intramuscular Vaccines Would Be "Decidedly Suboptimal"

He tells us, on the way out the door.

Anthony Fauci knows why COVID-19 vaccines have been so unreliable at halting infection and transmission beyond a few months. He waited until he stepped down as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to publicly explain it.

Elsevier's medical journal Cell Host and Microbe published a "perspective" led by Fauci's office last month that shows NIAID had good reason to believe COVID vaccines would fail even before they were authorized, based on research spanning Fauci's 38-year tenure leading NIAID.

U.S.-authorized COVID vaccines, overwhelmingly built on the novel mRNA platform, were designed to provide systemic rather than mucosal immunity, administered in arms rather than noses.

Critics of U.S. policy, including law professor Todd Zywicki, who secured a vaccine mandate exemption after suing George Mason University, have long emphasized that mucosal immunity -- naturally prompted by infection -- is the key to broad protection against COVID.

"I still run into people -- even law professors who publish articles on Covid vaccines -- who still know nothing about mucosal immunity," Zywicki wrote in sharing a November study in The Lancet that found natural infection far more protective against reinfection than Pfizer or Moderna vaccines.

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The NIAID paper affirms the importance of mucosal immunity while laying out the historic challenges to developing such vaccines and suggestions for next-generation vaccines.

If written by anyone other than federal public health officials, the paper could credibly trigger "misinformation" interventions by Big Tech, though Twitter actually did throttle a CDC-authored paper on plunging vaccine efficacy.

SARS-CoV-2 is among viruses that "replicate in the human respiratory mucosa without infecting systemically," along with influenza A, RSV and common colds, and "have not to date been effectively controlled by licensed or experimental vaccines."

The paper is especially hard on flu vaccines, which have a "decidedly suboptimal" track record and the best of which "would be inadequate for licensure for most other vaccine-preventable diseases," they wrote. COVID vaccines are developing the same "deficiencies" as variants evolve around them.

"It is increasingly accepted that route of vaccine administration (e.g., intramuscular, intranasal, conjunctival, or aerosol routes) is a key determinant of mucosal respiratory response," the authors wrote. "In general, and when feasible, mucosal immunization seems the optimal approach for respiratory viruses."

Fauci's belated admission on mucosal immunity spurred indignation on Twitter. "After 3 years he just announces this obvious point?" GMU's Zywicki wrote.

"Fauci facing the music on Intramuscular [sic] injections don't provide mucosal immunity," wrote genomics researcher Kevin McKernan, a repeat target of Twitter sanctions.

The article goes on to note that while Fauci supposedly resigned from NIAID, he still is drawing a paycheck. NIAID has not clarified Fauci's (deliberately?) confusing role with the agency.

I hope his role isn't "pretend to quit so I can't be demanded to testify by Congress like any federal employee can be, while continuing to take taxpayer money."

Because that kind of slippery deception doesn't sound like the Anthony Fauci I know.

posted by Ace at 01:18 PM

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