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Fact-checking Date COVID-19 account: Anthony Fauci did not say that vaccines worsen health | TECHNOLOGY

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The doctor , director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and adviser to White House One, is one of the most recognized international faces during this pandemic, for confronting the pseudoscientific positions of former US President Donald Trump and for be one of the main promoters of vaccination against the . However, for a few weeks, they have been using his image for a new Fake News.

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This is an extract from a video, where has a conversation with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. In the clip, of just 27 seconds, the White House adviser is heard saying: “This wouldn’t be the first time, if it happened, that a vaccine that looked good on initial safety actually made people worse. There was a history of respiratory syncytial virus in children that, paradoxically, made children worse. One of the HIV vaccines we tested several years ago made people more likely to get infected “. Is it that now Dr. Fauci is against anti-vaccination ?

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It is not a current video. Indeed, a conversation did take place between Zuckerberg and , but on March 19, 2020. That is, almost at the beginning of the pandemic and many months before the approval in the United States of the first vaccine against .

Out of context. The shared excerpt was part of a question asked by Zuckerberg about the initial safety study, which is part of vaccine development. The complete answer of is the next:

“The initial safety study, Mark, is to see if the injection in the arm has some kind of idiosyncratic or bad reaction. There is another element to safety, and that is if you vaccinate someone and they produce an antibody response and then they are exposed and infected, does the response they induce actually increase the infection and make it worse? And the only way to know is if you conduct an extensive study, not in a normal volunteer who is not at risk of infection, but in people who are at risk. This wouldn’t be the first time, if it happened, that a vaccine that looked good on initial safety actually made people worse. There was a history of vaccination against respiratory syncytial virus in children, which paradoxically made children worse. One of the HIV vaccines we tested several years ago made people more likely to get infected. Therefore, You can’t just go out and give it to them unless you feel like, in the field, when someone is infected and exposed, getting vaccinated doesn’t make it worse. That’s why you have to take a test.” Check out the full video of the interview below. Zuckerberg’s question and answer complete from minute 24:29.

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