- Dr. Anthony Fauci said successful campaigns to eradicate smallpox and polio wouldn’t have succeeded if the vaccines were subject to misinformation
- Fauci warned that some unvaccinated adults have been exposed to false information, are often skeptical of objective Covid-19 data
- Smallpox was eradicated worldwide over 40 years ago while and polio has been eliminated in almost every country
- Fauci said such efforts would have faltered under the current climate of misinformation