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Rand Paul says Fauci is responsible for THOUSANDS of COVID deaths
Morgan Phillips, Politics Reporter For Dailymail.Com - Tuesday
Sen. Rand Paul blamed Dr. Anthony Fauci for thousands of Covid deaths because he said the White House chief medical advisor pushed vaccines while ignoring therapeutics.
The Kentucky Republican accused Fauci of having a 'bias' toward vaccines that dates back to the AIDS crisis.
'I would venture to say that thousands of people die in our country every month now because [Fauci's] deemphasized the idea that there are therapeutics,' Paul told his father, three-time presidential candidate and former Texas Rep. Ron Paul, on 'Liberty Report' Monday.
The senator also claimed that thousands had died because Fauci did not take into account natural immunity in prioritizing vaccinations.
'Because he's made this mistake of deemphasizing natural immunity, I think thousands of people have lost their lives,' Fauci said. 'For instance, I've already had it [Covid-19] I should be at the end of the line.'
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommends that all people be fully vaccinated regardless of previous infection, as reinfections have been reported. According to a CDC study of residents in Kentucky, those who had Covid-19 and were not vaccinated were 2.34 times more likely to become reinfected in May-June 2021, before the emergence of the Omicron variant, than those who had a previous infection and were vaccinated.
Covid cases in the U.S. have doubled over the past two weeks, as the Omicron variant takes hold in the nation. On average, 235,269 Americans are testing positive for the virus every day, a 99 percent increase over the last two weeks.
The doubling comes after 512,553 new cases were reported in the U.S. on Monday, according to Johns Hopkins University. The large figure is the product of a multi-day build up of unreported cases over the Christmas holiday that finally were logged to start the week.
It comes a day after the CDC revised its official quarantine guidelines, recommending an infected person quarantine for five days minimum, halving the previous ten day quarantine guidelines.
'Many older people die, and many 35-year-old people are being vaccinated, that makes no scientific sense,' Paul said.
Ron Paul then said he believes in 'true' conspiracies, and asked his son whether Fauci and Bill Gates were behind the pandemic or whether they just 'made a big deal' out of the virus.
'Do you think there was a plan to bring this about, and Fauci was there, and part of the plan with Gates, or do you think something was happening at a more modest rate and they jumped on it and twisted it and made a big deal of it?'
'So the pandemic comes, there's this natural worry media plays up worry, because it sells,' the senator replied.
'I would call it less of a conspiracy and more of a philosophy,' the younger Paul said.
'I think Fauci is of the philosophy that vaccines are incredibly successful and are the way to go versus therapeutics, for example. So with regard to AIDS, he was involved as the AIDS epidemic came up, he wanted to develop a vaccine,' he continued.
'There's nothing wrong with that. He wanted to develop a vaccine. Vaccines can be great for polio or smallpox or wonderful. It didn't actually work for AIDS.'
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'The therapeutic angle ended up being the best but he was biased toward the vaccine,' Paul said. 'It's the same way now.'
Paul said that those who are at-risk and fall ill with Covid-19 need to start treatment with either monoclonal antibodies or a steroid within the first few days of symptoms
Rand Paul says Fauci is responsible for THOUSANDS of COVID deaths
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