Fauci Raises Herd Immunity Threshold Due to ‘Gut Feeling That the Country is Finally Ready to Hear What He Really Thinks’
In an interview with the New York Times on Christmas Eve, Dr. Anthony Fauci admitted his determinations of the level of herd immunity necessary to stop the COVID-19 pandemic depended on what he thought the public wanted to hear. In the interview, he stated he recently raised his estimate on the herd immunity threshold “partly based on new science…and partly on his gut feeling that the country is finally ready to hear what he really thinks.” “When polls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I was saying herd immunity would take 70 to 75 percent,” Fauci