Fauci says US would still have smallpox and polio if vaccines received the same setback as they do now in attack on Fox – RT USA News

As US President Joe Biden singled out Facebook as the main culprit for low vaccine uptake in the United States, Fauci shot at conservative cable media.

Responding to a question from CNN’s Jim Acosta about whether Tucker Carlson’s hugely popular Fox News show would have prevented the eradication of dangerous diseases in the United States if it had been decades or so, Fauci seemed to agree.

“Do you think we could have eradicated polio or beaten measles if Fox News had warned people night after night about these vaccine problems which are, you know, crazy?” Acosta asked Fauci in an interview on Saturday.

“If we had had the hindsight of vaccines as we see in some media, I don’t think at all that it would have been possible not only to eradicate polio, we would probably still have smallpox. Fauci said, before adding that he was “certain” that polio has always been active in the United States.

The United States had its last smallpox epidemic in 1949 and since 1972 the vaccine has not been routinely given. The last wild case in the world dates back to 1977. Shortly after September 11, President George W. Bush ordered the smallpox vaccination of 500,000 American soldiers in high-risk areas of the world and of workers in the United States. health workers who were ready to be vaccinated. However, at the time, there were concerns about the potentially fatal side effects of jab, with The New York Times reporting that “The decision was difficult for President Bush, given the likelihood that some people will die from the side effects of the vaccine.”

According to a 2003 model study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, if 60% of the American population were vaccinated, it would be beneficial in an unlikely scenario of a national bioterrorist attack with the smallpox virus, but would otherwise have caused some 482 deaths nationwide.

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The United States has been polio-free since 1979, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) crediting “A successful vaccination program” with two vaccines introduced in the mid-1950s and early 1960s to uproot the disease in the United States. Globally, polio cases have dropped dramatically since the late 1980s, with the World Health Organization reporting just 22 cases in 2017. And although polio has been nearly eradicated, at the With the exception of Afghanistan and Pakistan, where it remains epidemic, the effectiveness of the vaccination campaign has been questioned in light of a 2019 WHO report fearing that more polio cases may be attributed to an inexpensive oral vaccine than a wild virus.

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