Chicago City Wire

Pathologist Reed Spaulding went on Chicago’s Morning Answer radio show to discuss vaccine distribution and the return to a more normal life.

The interview started with host Dan Proft talking about infringements on Americans’ personal liberties such as authorities discouraging people from leaving their houses and forcing them to wear masks when they do go outside.

But Proft shifted the interview when he started talking about vaccination and vaccine distribution. The conservative host said that he supports rolling out as many vaccine doses as possible for people to be more able to battle the virus.

Proft said that he doesn’t support the idea that the effectiveness of the vaccine should be at 100% before the country reopens itself. He said that there’s no 100% guarantee that every vaccine administration will be successful and that America should be ready to take the odds if it wants to reopen itself fully.

Proft then asked for Spaulding’s opinion. Spaulding said that ever since the start of the pandemic a lot of people, mostly politicians, have been basing their decisions on their emotions and not their logical reasoning.

Spaulding agreed with Proft and said that there is no guarantee that every vaccine dose will enable an individual to withstand the COVID-19 virus. He added that the country should be willing to accept the risks and push through with reopening the nation instead of waiting for a 100% success rate.

Spaulding also contradicted Dr. Anthony Fauci’s plan to compile data on asymptomatic carriers. He said that the reason before for implementing the 6 feet social distancing rule is because there might be people who are asymptomatic carriers of the disease so it’s better to be safe than sorry.

But Spaulding said, “Well if you’re vaccinated that’s gone because the data starting to come out now show that the vaccines stop asymptomatic spread just almost exactly as well as stop[ping] a symptomatic spread.”