See pediatrician Kate Waldeck's Facebook post immediately below.
The following fact-checks. (See first Comment box, below.)
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feeling pissed.
I was 19 weeks pregnant when lockdown began in March 2020. Pregnant women in China and Italy were already dying.
I went to med school in Brooklyn, and my friends and classmates who stayed were suddenly working in ICUs they hadn’t stepped into in a decade. Young nurses and residents worked in trash bags and bandanas. Many got sick. Some died. Freezer trucks held stacked bodies because morgues were overwhelmed. Tent hospitals sprang up in parking lots.
Here in WV, my Med-Peds residents looked traumatized. In our PICU, we had COVID then MISC patients but, thankfully, no deaths. The adult ICU was another world. Code after code came over the hospital PA system those days. They told me it felt like almost everyone died.
Heavily pregnant, I poured over videos of colleagues in China and Italy wearing the PPE they needed, while healthcare workers here reused basic equipment. We got one N95 and mask a week. We kept them in a brown paper bag with our initials on it.
It was the most frightening time of my career, and I don’t think I’ll ever fully recover from the feeling that my own country abandoned healthcare workers by failing to provide the equipment we needed to stay alive.
During those months, I thanked God—literally, almost every day—for Anthony Fauci. Because I knew there was at least one person on the national stage trying to follow the evidence instead of the politics.
Science is changing your mind when good evidence demands it. Literally, this is a cornerstone of the scientific method. We NEED our scientists to revise recommendations when new data emerge. That’s how we learn, grow, innovate.
So watching Anthony Fauci dragged through yet another political spectacle in a vindictive attempt to rewrite history and punish someone for practicing evidence-based medicine during one of the darkest moments in modern American healthcare is really pissing me right off.
Y’all can keep hating on doctors and nurses and scientists and healthcare workers if you want. But get used to longer wait times and traveling for specialists, bc the arguments for going into healthcare careers are fewer and fewer every day. 
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Adjunct Commentary by David Econopouly and his respondents.
He really did say it all in less than 3 minutes... https://www.facebook.com/reel/1752977832820220
Everything that needs to be said 
The pejorative slant of this fellow assumes that the anti-VAXXERS came out ahead.
They didn’t.
The guy is a good propagandist and he knows how to use language well enough to make specious arguments and to slander all the great scientists who did gobs of great work from which we are still benefitting today.
Of course, you can appeal to artificial intelligence’s shoddy results by slagging the medium.
By myself despise many components of the whole AI gestalt, but I consistently find that AI googles replies to my inquiries are impressive, and I think by and large trustworthy.
If there is an underlying artificial intelligence conspiracy to twist data so that it always supports conspiratorial views, I don’t think so.
On the other hand, I know enough about linguistics and semantics to realize that this presenter is manipulating language, so that language alone enables him to make a persuasive case in the minds of most people.
Donald Trump makes a persuasive case in the minds of most people.
And still does.
Even after a dozen years of 24/7 shit-slinging.
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Alan Archibald It's not about anti-vaxxers... it's about healthy people who do not need to get vaccinated against Covid but in many instances were forced to be and if they didn't were humiliated and ostrasized. Do you believe that every man, woman and child in the US needs to be vaccinated for Covid multiple times per year?..... and what's all that stuff about AI that you're going on about?
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David Econopouly I'm "on about AI" because I included an AI link which states emphatically - after scouring the whole web - that people who didn't get vaccinated against COVID experienced far more morbidity and mortalith than those who did. And since many anti-VAXXER Fauci opponents write off information they don't agree with as "fake news" (or in some other way bogus) I wanted to be clear that when questions are posed to AI, artificial intelligence provides consistently high quality results. Conspiracists are often VERY tricky people - brilliant manipulators who represent their visceral decisions with little to no reference to trustworthy "peer-reviewed" factual reference. (I will follow up with an Appalachian pediatrician's comments about the pandemic and those who opposed the "best knowledge" (and therefore ever-changing) findings of Science.
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Multiple issues here.
1. Yes somewhat new but mRNA tech has been around for a while but not used in vaccinations and first time used on mass like this. But we will never know the implications of an alternate strategy but likely many more would have died.
2. Vulnerability to covid at the population level varies by subgroup but it's hard to know at an individual level how vulnerable you are. Healthy younger people did die and some vulnerable people did not.
3. Data does show that counties with less vaccination rates had higher death rates.
4. The central issue here is: What is the balance to strike between personal choice and the implications for public health. However you fall on that spectrum it is undeniable that some personal choices in behavior do have broader implications for others. I may drive home a little tipsy from alcohol and no one got hurt and someone else might kill someone.
5. Let's also not pretend that covid was just like a bad cold. Some feel the danger was exaggerated. Over million people in the US and over 7 million worldwide died. It was a serious and contagious disease.
6. General public does not understand science or the scientific method and views changes of scientific consensus as some sortvof conspiracy when in fact those changes are proof that science is working.
I'm not saying we got everything right. We did not. I agree that it could have been handled better. Informed opinions should not be silenced. At the same time there was propagated all kinds of uninformed or disinformed nonsense. Vulnerable populations needed protection. Serious examination of lessons learned needs to be communicated. Mass shutdown of the economy was not the way to go.
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Vasu Kilaru The death rate was under 1%(The projected cases of Covid was about 10 times more than the reported cases which is why deaths looked so high!) and the vast majority, and who the CDC considered high risk was the elderly and people with 2 more medical issues including obesity. Younger people were extremely low risk(less than 1 out of 100) and healthy people were also extremely low risk. It was a bad cold(or actually a flu- remember when we used to get the flu and that was just a part of life that made you feel like shit for a few days and then you recovered) to young and healthy people but was more deadly to the elderly and unhealthy.... The issue with Fauci is that he, like Hillary had a public and private position, and when it comes to pandemic policy, we should be told the truth. The Republicans now have the documents to show that there were two positions. We have a right to know how and why decisions were made- if you don't care and want to put your complete trust in Fauci then so be it, but there are many people who want to understand why things went wrong and whether or not Fauci was aware of what could or did go wrong when he made decisions.... If the vaccine protected you from getting and transmitting it then it should be a choice to take it- Those who want to protect themselves can get the vaccine and will be protected and those that don't want to take it will only put those who didn't get the vaccine in harms way- Is there something wrong with that?..... We are now finding out that there are many, many serious side effects of the vaccine and even when they did appear, the government minimized them and called people anti-vaxxers and humiliated them if they claimed a vaccine injury... It was a very smelly period and if we want to know how to avoid fiascos like that then there needs to be some investigations.... and unfortunately Fauci led the charge, so he needs to respond to Congress who has the right to hold hearings and call to witness people who were involved....... and you can't just say.. "I don't want to talk to you!" lol
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The U.S. performed ultra poorly in dealing with Covid and the folk-approach and uneducated conspiracy theory approach were the main characteristics of Americans during Covid, just like the guy in this video.
Listening to this probably non specialised person who probably has no medical education, no medical research education etc etc is like letting a plumber perform open heart surgery. But then again only by looking at the President that America has voted for or the caliber of the U.S. Health Minister today, running into such irresponsibility is not surprising.
One must look elsewhere for mature scientific information. Such layman’s videos by non specialised influencers are insulting to one’s intelligence.
Vasu Kilaru’s post properly describes in a realistic educated approach, aspects of the COVID experience which unfortunately are not attractive to the masses or apparently they do not have the capacity or maturity to follow. Explosive non scientific, conspiracy driven drama is apparently more appealing.
It is certain that those countries with high vaccination levels had reduced by approximately 90% hospital admissions after reaching such high levels of vaccination.
One of the possibly worse than COVID consequences of the pandemic was the overloading of hospital beds, most by antivaxers, which caused thousands of people with other severe conditions that had been denied adequate care to die. One of the primary concerns was to unblock an overloaded health system that was unable to function. In many countries this was more serious than COVID itself.
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Bill Kalantzakos You can take off your mask and sit in a restaurant and eat for 2 hours at a table with other people, but you can't walk into huge supermarket without a mask for 3 minutes..... and then when you leave the restaurant, you have to put on your mask to go outside! A lot of information(yes, other people doing the studies and laymen reading about them- all part of the critical thinking process which many of us have lost) has been released along with new studies that show where dealing with the pandemic went wrong... but the Fauci thing is about Fauci saying one thing publicly to us but he believed something differently- that's what this is about- so we need to stay focused..... but you're a guitarist so lets stick with with the guitar.... Eric Clapton who had all his shots up to that point got his Covid Vaccine in good faith and then lost use of his hands- when he went to to talk to people about his experience and the fact that he had adverse effects from the vaccine he was fucking crucified for being an anti-vaxxer by people who are totally bought into the system and will not accept any facts that go against Fauci's message(he also shut down any discussion)..... were you there nailing the Clapton to the cross too?..... if it happened to you and you lost use of your hands after told there would be no adverse affects would you say "Oh well, I just took it for the team and then go get a job making souvlakis?" or would you think.. "hmmmm... maybe I should warn people that there are some bad effects"... Where do you stand Bill?
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Alan Archibald. The information about the vanishingly rare "downside risk" of vaccination is not hidden. However, if your scientific training convinces you that the risk/benefit analysis sorts out heavily on behalf of benefits, then you would be foolish to alarm people in such ways that will shift the risk/benefit analysis in favor of focusing on the risks. We humans are sheep, and we are easily stampeded. The information is out there. People need to learn to do the research for themselves, confident that the medical community is being more forthright than anti-VAXXERS who tend to have very little training in biology and statistical analysis, and even less in medicine. Just put your computer in "AI Google mode" and ask as detailed a question as you like. And yes, being well aware of the remote, REAL AND DEVASTATING risks associated with vaccination, I'm prepared to "take one for the team." (while self-centered anti-Vaxxers benefit from herd immunity). https://share.google/aimode/B8hrX07VP0CMiWhg3
