Sen. Paul Hammers Dr. Fauci on ‘Theater’ of Requiring Covid-Immune Americans to Keep Wearing Mask

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PAUL: “You’re telling everybody to wear a mask, whether they’ve had an infection or a vaccine. What I’m saying is they have immunity, and everybody agrees they have immunity. What studies do you have that people who have had the vaccine --"
FAUCI: "Yeah."
PAUL: "-- or have had the infection are spreading the infection? If we aren’t spreading the infection, isn’t it just theater?
FAUCI: “No, it's not."
PAUL: "You've had a vaccine and you're wearing two masks, isn't that theater?"
FAUCI: "No, this not -- here we go again with the theater. Let’s get down to the facts. OK, the studies that you quote from Crotty and Sette look at in vitro examination of memory immunity, which in their paper they specifically say this does not necessarily pertain to the actual infection. It’s in vitro."
PAUL: “And what study can you point to that shows significant reinfection. There are no studies that show significant reinfection.” [crosstalk]
FAUCI: “Let -- let -- let me finish response to your question if you please. The other thing is that when you talk about reinfection and you don’t keep in the concept of variants, that’s an entirely different ball game. That’s a good reason for a mask. In the South African study conducted by J&J, they found that people who are infected with wild type and were exposed to te variant in South Africa, the 341, it was as if they had never been infected before. They had no protection. So when you talk about reinfection, you've got to make sure you’re talking about wild type. I agree you that you very likely would have protection from wild type for at least six months if you’re infected. But we in our country now have variants that are circulating.” [crosstalk]
PAUL: “Can you point to the study that shows significant reinfection? What study shows significant reinfection, hospitalization and death after either natural infection or the vaccine? It doesn’t exist.”