Posted on 08/29/2021 11:44:39 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert, said on Sunday he supports COVID-19 vaccine mandates for children attending schools as the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus continues to fuel a surge in cases in the nation.
"I believe that mandating vaccines for children to appear in school is a good idea," Fauci told CNN’s "State of the Union" program. "We've done this for decades and decades, requiring polio, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis" vaccinations.
Currently, children under 12 are not eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. But Fauci, in a separate interview on ABC's "This Week" program, said there should be enough data by early October for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to consider whether the shot is safe for children under that age.
"I think there's a reasonable chance" that the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines could get FDA clearance for kids under 12 before the upcoming holiday season, Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical adviser to the White House, said last Tuesday.
As schools re-open for the fall, the rise in coronavirus cases is already causing significant disruptions.
Dozens of schools nationwide have had to delay the start of the school year or shut down since opening in August, according to data from tracking website Burbio https://cai.burbio.com/school-opening-tracker. Its data shows the impact on schools so far has been heaviest in the South, the epicenter of the current surge in cases and where vaccination rates among those already eligible are generally the lowest in the country.
The re-opening of schools is also contributing to a supply shortage of COVID-19 tests in the United States as schools revive surveillance programs that will require tens of millions of tests...
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Where’s the “This is my shocked face” meme?
Of course he does. This is news?!
Fauci funded the Fauci/China virus.
If we had any honest law enforcement he would be in prison.
This commie needs to die. In a horrible way. In public. after charges are read
I really hope his being completely discredited happens before he dies unless said event comes soon
Coming later this year:
Fauci backs the ‘amazing’ new science which allows for vaccination
‘In Utero’.
Concur. This man has a lot of blood on his hands. And it didn't start with SARS-COV-2.
Difference being those are proven, well researched vaccines that don’t cause death or other serious consequences as we’re seeing with covid.
For the disease he created - Death Merchant in chief
Maybe Faucki is secretly selling homeschool products.
Hey Fauci, how about those pouring in from the Southern Border, or the Afghans we are letting in by the hundreds of thousands..I hear they dont require vaccination I guess its all good as long as you pinky promise to vote Democrat
Of course he does.
Nothing makes people angry like messing with their kids.
Fouxci is doing a good job promoting homeschooling.
Apparently when Australia vaxxed 24,000 kids 3 died...that’s 1 in 8,000...even if it’s 1 in 24,000 that would be 3,125 potential deaths (75m under 20 in USA) for a disease that only kills 1 in 200-250k...why would we want to do this?
Any news outlet still quoting Fauci is a failed and unreliable source.
Whenever I see or hear comments from this little jerk, I think of Johnny Cash-God’s Gonna Cut You Down.
Well, you may throw your rock and hide your hand
Workin’ in the dark against your fellow man
But as sure as God made black and white
What’s done in the dark will be brought to the light
Faith, keep the faith.
>We’ve done this for decades and decades, requiring polio, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis” vaccinations.
These vaccines don’t need a booster every 5 months.
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