Fact Check: Yes, Dr. Birx did change her tune on COVID-19 vaccines

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FACT CHECK

CLAIM: “No, Dr. Deborah Birx didn't change her 'tune' on COVID vaccines.” “Birx's past statements show she has remained largely consistent in her view that COVID-19 vaccines do not provide long-term immunity.”

VERDICT: FALSE

Introduction

In an appearance on Fox News no July 22, Dr. Deborah Birx, the former White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator, made a startling admission. She said that she knew that COVID‑19 vaccines were not going to protect against infection and suggested that government officials had made a mistake by overplaying the ability of the vaccines to do so.

This was a reversal of her own position since she was among those who initially sold mass vaccination to the public as the path out of the pandemic. Two doses of COVID‑19 vaccine, we were told, would induce durable sterilizing immunity that would enable the development of herd immunity by stopping community spread of SARS‑CoV‑2, the coronavirus that causes COVID‑19.

This was the chorus of virtually the entire “public health” establishment, from government officials to health care providers. However, there has been a concerted effort by the mainstream media to gaslight us with attempts to deny that “public health” officials like Birx lied to the public to manufacture consent for the policy goal of achieving high vaccine uptake.

We are not supposed to remember, evidently, how the vaccines were initially sold to the public as being capable of inducing durable protection against infection, which would hence stop people from being able to spread the virus. This episode in history, the mainstream media thought controllers have determined, must be tossed down the memory hole.

An instructive example of this attempt to rewrite history is a recent “fact check” article from the Poynter Institute’s publication PolitiFact, which is partnered with Facebook to suppress certain information about COVID‑19 vaccines and public policy.

The PolitiFact article, written by Yacob Reyes, claims that Birx did not change her position. She has always been consistent in acknowledging that COVID‑19 vaccines do not prevent transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes the disease, according to Reyes.

However, Reyes’ argument is falsified even by his own cited sources, which prove that Birx absolutely did reverse herself in terms of her public comments on the ability of the vaccines to prevent infection and transmission.