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7. Yeah, he'll say something about "cautiously optimistic"

Tue Jun 23, 2020, 12:23 PM

Jun 2020

which allows a lot of wriggle room.

Also, having a vaccine in trials by the end of the year doesn't mean much. They really will have to make sure the vaccine doesn't kill people first (I remember the flu vaccine in the 70s that gave some people a crippling disease), and also that it seems effective.

But we all know what ALSO happens at the end of the year (or just before it). The election.
Fauci probably thinks he has to say this to pacify Trump.
But the best "vaccine" we can get is Trump's defeat, and then Biden can hire the right people whose only goal is public health, not "pacifying an insane president" and "helping insane president win reelection".

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Is Fauci playing with words when it comes to a CV19 vaccine?! One minute he says by end of year 2020 [View all] uponit7771 Jun 2020 OP

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That's still playing with words knowing the lay person doesn't know to even ask about credentialized uponit7771 Jun 2020 #2

That's still playing with words knowing the lay person doesn't know to even ask about credentialized uponit7771 Jun 2020 #9

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Exactly my thinking as well. HotTeaBag Jun 2020 #12

right ?! uponit7771 Jun 2020 #14

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He lets others shape the discussion as they like, saying just enough to let the issue remain squishy wiggs Jun 2020 #4

+1, this what I'm seeing also and it seems to now verge on playing with words. Its stupid, he knows uponit7771 Jun 2020 #6

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+1, we're skeptical cause Fauci is associated with Trump in anyway I wish other would be too uponit7771 Jun 2020 #21

Yeah, he'll say something about "cautiously optimistic" dawg day Jun 2020 #7

+1, Fauci understands the context people expect in regards to timing of the vaccine. Having to throw uponit7771 Jun 2020 #8

And as an HIV researcher-- Fauci knows- dawg day Jun 2020 #13

To be honest, I've been carefully listening to advice and discussions of COVID in the LGBT community Hugin Jun 2020 #20

I know-- we can learn a lot from that experience. dawg day Jun 2020 #22

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+1, especially when lead doctors use words like conceivable vs probable one would be ready at a ... uponit7771 Jun 2020 #11

We're not getting one this year. Initech Jun 2020 #17

And there is no one less able/willing to do that Herculean effort- dawg day Jun 2020 #25

Oh yeah. Initech Jun 2020 #27

If you take nothing else away from this hearing, DeminPennswoods Jun 2020 #18

AkA - he just doesn't know. jmg257 Jun 2020 #23

Then he should say that instead of allowing both side take aways uponit7771 Jun 2020 #29

I wouldn't hold my breath SoonerPride Jun 2020 #24

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