Sorin, I quoted Gupta directly. Here is the full exchange. I quoted Gupta directly from the 1:33 mark.

On your first point, reasonable people will agree that the vaccine doesn't kick in instantly. If you listen to Tapper's question, he's talking about weeks after someone is vaccinated.

Again, I get why an official would say, "No, you can't go mask-less the day after your shots are done". I would not expect a time period of 4-6 weeks to be unreasonable at all. And even then, it is human nature for people of intelligence to be cautious for awhile. But Gupta wasn't going down that road at all. He was pushing bad science.

As for your second point, mutations occur regardless of whether vaccinations are in the picture. Vaccinating the public does NOT speed up the pace of mutation. At the very least, Gupta is conflating multiple points. He's trying to walk a fine line - by promoting the vaccine as something to protect the vaccinated from serious illness, but not necessarily as capable of preventing transmission. Months ago, was anyone in the CDC saying that with the vaccine, after you've produced antibodies, that someone could get enough viral load to replicate to the point of being contagious to others, but without getting seriously ill yourself????

But Gupta is making it up as he goes along. If you don't buy it, fine, that's your decision. But I don't want policy to be set based on this ton of horsesh**.

It is unfortunate that no one seems to be challenging Fauci on this: how can a virus not enter the cell and replicate enough to make you sick but can do so enough to make you infectious??? (Sadly, Rand Paul, who supposedly is a physician of sorts, really screwed up the question)

Bottom line: vaccination programs do not accelerate mutations. (If that were true, the history of smallpox and other diseases would sure as hell be different)