Fauci says covid vaccines don't protect "too well"

The White House advisor recognizes that vaccines are important but they do not manage to curb contagions as expected.

Anthony Fauci, Chief Medical Advisor to the President of the United States, has acknowledged in an interview on Fox News' Your World, that covid vaccines do not work "too well".  Fauci wanted to launch this message to clarify certain information that is circulating about vaccines.

Fauci insists on the importance of vaccines to strengthen the natural defenses of the human being. "They protect quite well against serious diseases that lead to hospitalization and death," Fauci concluded, alluding to these defenses. And he made a new appeal to the population to receive the booster dose. Fauci was infected with covid months ago, and he said it was precisely because he was vaccinated that he was able to cope successfully with the disease.

 I believe that's the reason (...) why at my age, being vaccinated and boosted, even though it didn't protect me against infection, I feel confident that it made a major role in protecting me from progressing to severe disease. And that's very likely why I had a relatively mild course. So my message to people who seem confused because people who are vaccinated get infected - the answer is if you weren't vaccinated, the likelihood [is] you would have had [a] more severe course than you did have when you were vaccinated. 

In the same vein, of course, the Biden administration has called on people to remain vigilant against contagion. They assure that immunity decreases if the vaccination is not repeated (with the booster dose) and advise to continue using (as far as possible) masks indoors, since two new highly transmissible variants have been detected.