Note however that if you read farther down it does say “vaccine efficacy of 100% (95% confidence interval [CI, 87.5, 100.0]).”
Also that press release is not by any possible definition from “early days” nor is it issued by Dr Fauci.
Also that press release is not by any possible definition from “early days” nor is it issued by Dr Fauci.
Now, I invite you to make google searches with a date range and you will see that such studies claiming 100% efficacy on the product on kids started to appear in the early days actually:
https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...
Since 100% is a pretty awesome figure, my theory is that there must have been quite a bit of press coverage at the time and I have no doubt a lot of people got confused.