Documents released by Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) reveal that health officials believed the United States may have reached a high population immunity rate to COVID-19 as early as May 2020.
“I released documents showing Pfizer and the CIA privately acknowledged high population immunity as early as May 2020, while the public heard a different story,” Paul wrote on X. “Americans deserve the truth.” He shared an article from Brownstone Institute, which revealed that the narrative behind closed doors was separate from what was publicly distributed to Americans.
According to Brownstone Institute, federal agencies wrote in a now-public report, “On ‘herd immunity’ [former FDA commissioner and board member of Pfizer] Dr. Gottlieb discounts the 2 major studies from Los Angeles and Santa Clara counties showing high seroprevalence. He believes nationally, the seroprevalence is about 20-25% which is insufficient for herd immunity at the R₀ (BRR) value of 3.” The Santa Clara study referenced was written by now-NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, which found a 2.8% seroprevalence level. The finding suggested that “infection fatality rate was very low and prevalence was very high,” Jeffrey Tucker with the Institute wrote. “The implication: we would get through this with no great disruption necessary.”
Tucker noted in the report that Gottlieb told the CIA that the “virus spread is far higher than most anyone believed at the time,” which would suggest a 67% herd immunity rate. That number would allow the COVID-19 pandemic to quickly become endemic.
In public, however, Gottlieb said that only about 8% of the nation had been exposed to the virus. It was also Gottlieb who recommended that the Trump administration implement lockdowns, the report notes.
Tucker went on to argue in the report that Gottlieb may have shared differing information with the CIA and public as a means of prolonging “suffering from lockdowns as long as possible in hopes of profitably testing a new vaccine platform.” Such a theory aligns with Fauci’s diary entries released by Paul, which suggested that scientists sought to delay natural immunity, the report said.
Gottlieb has also been revealed to have pressured X, then Twitter, into censoring posts regarding the COVID-19 vaccine. He also appeared to admit that social distancing rules were not based on any scientific evidence, and acknowledged that “cloth masks aren’t going to provide a lot of protection.”
