Fauci confronted by vaccine hesitant DC resident tells her vaccine DOES stop you contracting COVID

Video footage has emerged of Dr. Anthony Fauci and Washington D.C. Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser making a series of house calls during the pandemic as they attempted to convince vaccine-hesitant residents to get the coronavirus injection.

In a clip released from a new PBS documentary about Fauci, 82, who retired on Christmas Eve, the former Chief Medical Advisor to the President of United States can be seen going door to door, only to be rejected by one homeowner after another, who are not convinced of the benefits of the jab. 

The footage, shot in 2021, sees Fauci face questioning from a man in Anacostia, in southeast D.C., who flatly refuses to get the vaccine despite the nation’s former top doctor attempting to offer several reasons as to why he should.

Fauci and Bowser visited that part of the nation’s capital because it was a historically African-American community with low vaccination rates. 

Dr. Anthony Fauci and Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser went door-to-door in 2021 to encourage hesitant people to get vaccinated against COVID

Many residents remained unconvinced about the vaccine’s benefits, questioning its development timeline and expressing concerns about the incentives offered

‘I heard [the vaccine] doesn’t cure it, and it doesn’t stop you from getting it,’ one woman says

Fauci even described the area as ‘disenfranchised’ during his tenure as the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ director.

The man, who is not named in the footage, claims that Americans are not satisfied with the information they had received about the vaccine. 

He expresses his reluctance to get vaccinated due to the perceived lack of clarity around the vaccine.

‘I’m not going to be lining up taking a shot on a vaccination for something that wasn’t clear in the first place,’ he states. 

He displays skepticism over the apparently short time it took for the vaccine to be developed.

Fauci and Bowser visited a part of the nation’s capital because it was a historically African-American community with low vaccination rates

One man can be seen confronting the well-known doctor and the Democratic mayor, claiming that Americans were not satisfied with the information they had received about the vaccine

‘Nine months is definitely not enough for nobody to be taking no vaccination that you all came up with,’ he says.

Bowser attempts to justify the vaccine by explaining that she could speak with the man close up because of the fact she had been vaccinated, emphasizing that if many people remained unvaccinated, the virus will continue to spread.

‘The only reason I’m talking to you right now, as close as we are, is that I’ve been vaccinated. If thousands of people like you don’t get vaccinated, you’re going to let this virus continue to percolate in this country and in this world,’ Bowser said.

‘Something like the common flu then, right?’ the man interrupts. 

The man remains unconvinced, questioning the official data and expressing further doubt about the various incentives being offered to people for getting vaccinated.

‘When you start talking about paying people to get vaccinated, when you start talking about incentivizing things to get people vaccinated, it’s something else going on with that,’ he says as he holds firm on refusing to get the jab.

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‘Nine months is definitely not enough for nobody to be taking no vaccination that you all came up with,’ he says

Mayor Bowser attempts to justify the vaccine by explaining that she could speak with the man close up because of the fact she had been vaccinated

Fauci tries to defended the vaccine explaining how the technology used to develop it had been worked upon for 20 years

Fauci tries to defended the vaccine explaining how the technology used to develop it had been worked upon for 20 years. 

‘Your campaign is about fear. It’s about inciting fear in people. You all attack people with fear. That’s what this pandemic is. It’s a fear, it’s fear, this pandemic. That’s all it is,’ the skeptical resident rants.

Fauci and Bowser also face skepticism from another woman who questions the vaccine’s efficacy in preventing infection.

‘I heard that [the vaccine] doesn’t cure it, and it doesn’t stop you from getting it,’ she says.

‘No,’ Fauci replies. ‘On the very, very, very rare chance that you do get it even if you’re vaccinated, it’s a very – you don’t even feel sick. It’s like you don’t even know you got infected. It’s very, very good at protecting you,’ he protests.

Fauci attempts to reassure her that although the chances of infection after vaccination were minimal, the vaccine provides excellent protection.

At the time, vaccination data on Bowser’s website revealed at least 60,000 breakthrough COVID cases in the city.

During their conversation, Bowser asks Fauci about states that had not mandated the vaccine, to which he responded that such states would simply allow the outbreak to persist. 

At another point, Bowser asked Fauci, ‘What are we going to do about those other states?’ referring to states that refused to mandate the vaccine.

‘Oh my God, they’re going to keep the outbreak smoldering in the country,’ Fauci replied.

‘It’s so crazy. I mean, they’re not doing it because they say they don’t want to do it. They’re Republicans. They don’t like to be told what to do. And we got to break that, unpack that,’ he said.