Anthony Fauci was one of 3 authors of a paper published in the journal, Cell, in January of 2023. After admitting some poor results of vaccines, there were calls for new and even multiple methods of delivery for vaccines: traditional shots, sequential-seasonal shots, intra-nasal dosing, eye-drop conjunctival dosing, and aerosol dosing.
But what I found striking was that it appears to have been admitted that there might only be a possibility that someone could come down with a COVID pneumonia:
Now, to be sure, saying that it is possible that there might be something like a COVID pneumonia is not the same thing as saying that you know for a fact that there has been a true occurrence of COVID pneumonia in some patient, somewhere on Earth. But the language seems cautious, as if there is a possibility of no COVID pneumonia.
While the qualifier regarding “considerable significance” allows for prior instances of COVID pneumonia, it also allows for the possibility that no prior instance of COVID pneumonia (prior to 2023) was known to be crucial enough to become a known cause of death in someone.
On this view, COVID pneumonia may have happened before, but it isn’t known if it ever led to someone’s death, for instance. Or, if it has led to someone’s death, it wasn’t very often, so that we cannot say for sure that it is of considerable significance. This seems like a striking admission to make at this juncture (this late in the game).
People have been assuming all along that COVID pneumonia was not just a thing, but a thing of considerable significance (a thing which could lead to morbidity and mortality). Yet three years later, we’re now being told that it is only possibly of considerable significance.
Reference
Rethinking next-generation vaccines for coronaviruses, influenzaviruses, and other respiratory viruses. David M. Morens, Jeffery K. Taubenberger, Anthony S. Fauci. Open Archive DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2022.11.016