July 24, 2022
Birx Says COVID-19 Vaccines Were Never ‘Going to Protect Against Infection’
“One of the former U.S. officials who led the COVID-19 response during the Trump administration said July 22 that COVID-19 vaccines were not expected to protect against infection
‘I knew these vaccines were not going to protect against infection. And I think we overplayed the vaccines.
And it made people then worry that it’s not going to protect against severe disease and hospitalization,’ Deborah Birx, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator under former President Trump, said during an appearance on Fox News.
The Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines were granted emergency use authorization in late 2020 to prevent symptomatic COVID-19, and were promoted by many health officials, including Birx
‘This is one of the most highly-effective vaccines we have in our infectious disease arsenal. And so that’s why I’m very enthusiastic about the vaccine,’ Birx said on an ABC podcast at the time.”
