The first step in rectifying the mistakes that occurred during the pandemic...

…is to purge officials like these from office and make sure they never hold positions of authority ever again.

Kevin Bass @kevinnbass

Ashish Jha serves as White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator. "Vaccine-induced immunity is much more durable and is going to hold up much better against variants." There was absolutely no evidence for these statements at the time. These liars must be purged from office.

In this interview from June 7th, 2021, Ashish Jha, who serves as White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator, said

"This is a bit of a misunderstanding that unfortunately a lot of people have. There is this idea that if you have been infected, that if you have natural immunity, you don’t need to get vaccinated. … There is no doubt about it in my mind that the vaccine-induced immunity is much more durable and is going to hold up much better against variants."

There was absolutely no evidence for these statements at the time.

And we now know that this is completely wrong based on the best evidence published in the Lancet:

People were banned from Facebook and Instagram for contradicting what we now know to be blatantly false statements.

These liars must be purged from office.

And those of us in the medical community who supported these people need to undertake some serious reflection about just how bad we messed up and contributed to the spread of state-sponsored misinformation during the pandemic.

And social media companies need to be held responsible too. Measures and safeguards must be put in place so that the commandeering of the media and of social media platforms, by the state, can never happen again.

UPDATE:

Some people are saying that the experts early in the pandemic like this man based their claims about the superiority of vaccine-induced immunity over natural immunity on titer studies.

Then why did they say "there is no doubt in my mind," "I am very confident", etc.?

They should have been modest about their conclusions. Titer studies are not humans!

This is a huge science communication screw-up.

If these people really didn't know better than to communicate in this way, they need to be fired.

And if they did know better, they need to be fired.

No matter what, they need to be fired.

Basing supremely confident conclusions about human outcomes on titer studies is extremely scientifically inappropriate.

It's tantamount to lying, and it's what online charlatans do all the time.

This is our government. The government isn't supposed to behave like Instagram influencers.

Shameful.