Dr. Fauci on why the U.S. is 'out of the pandemic phase'

[Doc Sportello]

32. A couple of points

One, you state that "long COVID is real, and common." and then quote from an article that states "anywhere from 10% to 30% of patients might experience long COVID after recovering". So you call it common and then in the article you quoted from there is first a caveat that they "might" experience long Covid and even then it could be as low as 10 percent. That isn't factual evidence that long Covid is common.

You also state effects from Covid that include a laundry list of ailments but that is not proven as of yet and many, many other diseases we routinely deal with also have long-term and other multiple negative outcomes, but we deal with them the same way we are dealing with Covid - vaccines and treatments.

And, as I've written in other posts, we really are talking about two different situations here: the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. Yes, a small number of vaccinated and boosted people will suffer from long-term effects and some will die, but these are the same outcomes considered when deciding other public policies regarding disease. But the vast majority of the negative consequences will be among the unvaccinated population. The numbers to look at in this are for the vaccinated. We can't do anything about the unvaccinated and the public will not tolerate a return to more shutdowns and mask requirements - and the science says they are right.