″ Total nonsense ″. Fauci criticizes group immunity strategy

Fauci says it is “total nonsense” to support group immunity, as a concept that maintains that the spread of the virus will stop as soon as a significant part of the population becomes infected and immune.

The administration of President Donald Trump admitted this week that it was considering changing the strategy to combat the COVID-19 pandemic by adopting the group immunity model, based on a joint statement by several immunology experts in support of that strategy.. – the so-called Great Barrington Declaration.

“If you talk to someone who has some experience in epidemiology and infectious diseases, they will say that this is very risky and that it will end up with many more infections in vulnerable people, leading to more hospitalizations and deaths,” Fauci said during a television interview. .

“I think we just have to look at the numbers and realize that this is absurd,” explained the White House consultant., referring to the fact that the US currently leads the world in the number of pollution cases (about eight million), which includes more than 217 thousand deaths.

More than 80 experts launch an alert

Also on Thursday, a group of 80 researchers warned, in an open letter published by the scientific journal The Lancet, that group immunity approaches to managing the covid-19 pandemic are “a dangerous fallacy,” with no scientific backing.

For the scientists who subscribed to the paper, the idea that immunity develops in low-risk populations, while protecting the most vulnerable, is “a dangerous fallacy without the support of scientific evidence.”.