The upshot: mRNA vaccines are not effective in combating respiratory viruses. The Fauci paper, titled "Rethinking next-generation vaccines for coronaviruses, influenzaviruses, and other respiratory viruses," was published in the open source journal Cell Host & Microbe in January 2023. 

Many scientists and researchers predicted the failure of COVID vaccines. They were censored, ostracized, and attacked. Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. also expressed concerns about the efficacy of COVID vaccines in an August 2020 interview. Posting a clip from that interview on X (formerly Twitter), Son of Liberty commented: "This is quite something to watch.… As the whole Covid train wreck began to unfold, Kennedy made these PREDICTIONS about Fauci, Gates and the vax rollout BEFORE it happened. He knew EXACTLY what was up."

Kennedy wrote the best-selling book, The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and Global War on Democracy and Public Health. Big media, with the exception of Tucker Carlson on Fox, and big tech, all but ignored it, despite its meticulous research and robust sales. [It was published by Skyhorse Publishing, of which Tony Lyons is President and Publisher; he is also co-chair of American Values 2024, the super PAC supporting Kennedy for president, which funds The Kennedy Beacon.]

Dr. Lyons-Weiler details Fauci's "Rethinking" paper and points out that this recognition of the failed efficacy of mRNA COVID vaccines occurred after the vaccines were mandated on populations across the globe. Lyons-Weiler states, "According to Fauci, vaccines that focus on systemic immunity do not fully address the unique requirements for combating respiratory viruses. One question – where were these concerns prior to 2020? Why did policy not reflect this reality?"

The legacy media and public health officials still promote mRNA COVID vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna. Fauci's paper calls for new types of vaccines and concludes, "We are all excited and invigorated that many investigators and collaborative groups are rethinking, from the ground up, all of our past assumptions and approaches to preventing important respiratory diseases and working to find bold new paths forward."