Inside the Secret Government Meeting on COVID-19 Natural Immunity

 

https://Four of the highest ranking U.S. health officials met in secret to discuss whether or not naturally immune people should be exempt from getting COVID-19 vaccines

• The Epoch Times has independently confirmed the meeting took place, identified all of the participants, and uncovered other key details.

The Participants

• From the government: Fauci, the head of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden until the end of 2022, Dr. Vivek Murthy, the US surgeon general, and Dr. Rochelle Walensky, head of US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), all of whom were asked to attend the meeting.
• The meeting was scheduled for 9-9:30 p.m. in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, and the participants were: Dr. Bechara Choucair, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and an adviser to the Food and Drug Administration on vaccines, and Akiko Iwasaki, professor of immunobiology and molecular, cellular, and developmental biology at Yale University, and Peter Hotez, co-director of Texas Children's Hospital.

'Clear Benefit'

• There's a "clear benefit" to boosting regardless of prior infection, Akiko Iwasaki, who has since received more than $2 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), told participants after the meeting.
• No participants represented experts like Bhattacharya who say that the naturally immune generally don't need any doses at all.

Public Statements

• In public, Hotez repeatedly portrayed natural immunity as worse than vaccination, including citing the widely criticized CDC paper, which drew from just two months of testing in a single state.
• Several months later, the CDC acknowledged that natural immunity was superior to vaccination against the Delta variant, which was displaced in late 2021 by Omicron.
• Osterholm has knocked people who claim natural immunity is weak or non-existent, but has also claimed that vaccine-bestowed immunity is better.

Downplay Natural Immunity

• Fauci and Walensky, two of the most visible U.S. health officials during the pandemic, have repeatedly downplayed natural immunity.
• In an email in March 2020, they said they assumed there would be "substantial immunity post infection," but later downplayed it, saying it was "unclear."
• After the meeting, they would say that natural immunity and vaccine-bestowed immunity both wane, and that people should get vaccinated regardless of prior infection to boost their protection.

Vaccine Guidance Not Altered

• U.S. policy on vaccines, which has been the basis for vaccination mandates across sectors such as education and health care, was not altered at all in the wake of the meeting.
• "I think it's because the opinions were generally diverse, so there wasn't a clear, unified message that came out of that," Offit told The Epoch Times, adding that there was "generally a divide among participants about how to think about this."

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