
‘I think we overplayed the vaccines’
Art Moore
WND News Center
Defenders of federal officials, including President Biden, who declared one year ago that people who received the COVID-19 vaccines would not contract the disease argue “the science” changes over time.
But the White House coronavirus response coordinator at the time the vaccines were developed and rolled out said in an interview Friday she wasn’t surprised that people who were quadruple vaccinated, including Biden and Dr. Anthony Fauci, contracted the disease.
“I knew these vaccines were not going to protect against infection and I think we overplayed the vaccines,” Birx told the Fox News Channel’s Neil Cavuto.
Birx, who is promoting a new book in which she confesses she manipulated data and quietly altered CDC guidance without authorization, was responding to the question of what she would say to unvaccinated people who in light of the ineffectiveness of the vaccines in preventing COVID might ask why they should bother getting the shots.
She said that during the current wave, the Pfizer drug Paxlovid is what “is going to save you now.”
“But once we get through this wave, during the lull, you should get vaccinated, because we do believe it will protect you, particularly if you are over 70,” she said, referring to protection from severe illness.
The government “overplayed” the vaccines, she said, by telling people they would not get infected. And when that didn’t turn out to be true, it “made them worry that it’s not going to protect against severe disease and hospitalization.”
Birx insisted the vaccines “will” protect against severe illness but, perhaps unwittingly, added a significant caveat.
“Let’s be very clear, 50% of the people who died from the omicron surge were older, vaccinated,” she said.
In fact, an analysis of Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccine trials found the mRNA shots are more likely to land a recipient in the hospital than to provide protection from a severe adverse event. The findings were similar to those of a recent pre-print analysis that found “no evidence of a reduction in overall mortality in the mRNA vaccine trials.” And a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that two doses of the mRNA vaccines increased the risk of COVID-19 infection during the omicron wave.
Earlier this month, Fauci – who tested positive for COVID-19 after being quadruple vaccinated – acknowledged to Cavuto that the vaccines “don’t protect overly well” from infection.
Further, Johns Hopkins medical professor Marty Makary said the new study clearly showed that Paxlovid “overuse in low-risk people can breed resistance and spawn new virus mutations,” calling it “risky business.”
The FDA, nevertheless, has authorized state-licensed pharmacists to circumvent doctors by directly prescribing it.
See Birx’s remarks to Neil Cavuto:
In her new book “Silent Invasion,” Birx confesses she “devised” a “strategic sleight-of-hand” method of reporting she described as “subterfuge.”
“This wasn’t the only bit of subterfuge I had to engage in,” she writes.
Birx maintained, contrary to the White House and the CDC, that the asymptomatic spread of COVID-19 was significant.
She says that “eight months into the pandemic, many at both the White House and the CDC still refused to see that silent spread played a prominent role in viral spread and that it started with social gatherings, especially among the younger adults.”
Birx opposed the advice of then-coronavirus adviser Dr. Scott Atlas to limit testing on the premise that asymptomatic transmission was minimal and not driving the pandemic.
She and then CDC Director Robert Redfield “agreed to quietly rewrite the guidance and post it to the CDC website.”
“We would not seek approval. Because we were both quite busy, it might take a week or two, but we were committed to subverting the dangerous message that limiting testing was the right thing to do,” she writes.
Birx recalls a phone call from White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows: “What the hell do you think you’re doing? You rewrote and posted the CDC testing stuff,” said Meadows, according to Birx’ account.
“Yes, I did, but – ” Birx replied.
“There’s no ‘buts’ here. You went over my head,” Meadows said, according to Birx.
Birx resigned from her White House role in December 2020.
Jeffrey A. Tucker, founder and president of the Brownstone Institute, recalled that while Dr. Anthony Fauci has been the front man for the media, Birx was the main influence in the White House behind the nationwide lockdowns.
But after warning Americans to restrict their Thanksgiving 2020 gatherings to “your immediate household,” she traveled to Delaware, where she met with four generations for a traditional Thanksgiving dinner.
Tucker noted her only real experience with infectious disease came from her work on AIDS, which Tucker points out is “a very different disease from a respiratory virus that everyone would eventually get but which would only be fatal or even severe for a small cohort, a fact that was known since late January.”
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Just call it what it really is:
“the Plandemic of the Jabbed“
Been suspect of this from day 1. Those of us who are old enough have lived with viruses since we were tots. The extreme measures over this one have never made sense. Ever. Still do not. We have no vaccine for a cold. We have no vaccine for alot of things. And yet this needed national attention? Come on…
To quote ABBA:
Money Money Money.
The absolute worst and evil addiction of all!
If jabs were so great, people would line up to buy. Mandates would be superfluous.
You suppose it might have something to do with the 1 million plus dead Americans? Even the flu only kills 10 to 40k Americans a year. Oh, and the virus continues to kill hundreds of Americans a day.
FYI: Birx also said the vaccine would reduce deaths and reduce hospitalizations. What scientists acknowledge is that the Covid virus has mutated and become more infectious. While the vaccine prevented infections from occurring, the mutated virus, which is caused by uncontrolled spread of Covid, seems to be able to infect vaccinated people. Even so, the best possible protection remains the vaccine.
The virus kills? Or it is found in people with other conditions that actually are the cause of their death? There is a big difference between caused by and found with. And this is information that is very much out there. .the reporting has been vastly skewed. Most who have died, when you dig, had other conditions such as obesity, diabetes, etc.. and that was the true nail in the coffin. Your statement sounds like a CNN news bite. But if you believe the shots and masks help you somehow, by all means go for it. I will stick with my own immune system.
Viruses are part of nature as are bacteria and a multitude of organisms. Humans are also part of nature! The mRNA is a messenger RNA which carries a message. The innate immune system, if robust, will interact with it and take the necessary action(s).
Humans evolve through time as part of an adaptation process.
Viruses and bacteria mutate, or adapt, in response to their environment. Just as bacteria (eg MRSA) have developed remarkable resistance to antibiotics (eg over-use), so is a virus likely to undergo mutations, perhaps in response to the jabs. Very interesting research subject!