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Dr. Anthony Fauci: School Closures During COVID-19 Were a ‘Mistake’ (VIDEO)

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, a prominent advisor during the COVID-19 pandemic, has reversed his stance on the extended closure of schools, admitting in a recent interview that keeping schools closed for more than a year was a “mistake.”

In an interview with “CBS Mornings” co-host Tony Dokoupil, Dr. Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), reflected on the school closures. “Keeping it for a year was not a good idea,” Fauci said, in promotion of his new memoir “On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service.” When asked if this was a mistake that should not be repeated, Fauci responded, “Absolutely, yeah.”

During the summer of 2020, Fauci strongly advocated for school closures, often clashing with then-President Donald Trump. Fauci supported the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines, which recommended closures based on community virus spread. Trump criticized these guidelines as impractical and costly, leading to public disputes between the two.

As some schools reopened in September 2020, data from Brown University’s National COVID-19 School Response Data Dashboard showed fewer than 1% of schools reported COVID-19 cases. A January 2021 CDC study found little evidence that schools significantly contributed to community transmission. Despite this, most schools remained closed through the 2020-2021 academic year due to pressure from teachers’ unions and concerns about virus spread.

During his testimony before the House Select Committee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, Fauci admitted the six-feet social distancing guidelines lacked scientific backing, contributing to the closure decisions. This mandate, which drastically limited in-person learning, was revealed to be more of an empiric decision rather than data-driven.

The prolonged closures led to significant educational setbacks. A 2022 report by the US Department of Education showed reading scores among nine-year-olds dropped to their lowest levels in 30 years, while math scores fell for the first time in 50 years. Critics argue that the guidance promoted by public health officials and teachers’ unions did not justify such prolonged closures.

The Key Moments When Dr. Anthony Fauci Contradicted Himself During Heated COVID Hearing (VIDEO)

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By New York Post. Former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Dr. Anthony Fauci contradicted several of his past statements from the COVID-19 pandemic when he testified before Congress on Monday.

The former top pandemic adviser to two presidential administrations, who retired from NIAID in 2022 after nearly four decades at the head of NIAID, faced sharp questions about the reversals from Republican members of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.

“Americans were aggressively bullied, shamed, and silenced for merely questioning or debating issues such as social distancing, masks, vaccines, or the origins of COVID,” Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) said in his opening remarks to Fauci, 83.

“You took the position that you presented ‘the science’ and your words came across as final and as infallible in matters pertaining to the pandemic,” the chairman added before he and other Republican panel members recounted those statements. . .

“Anybody who’s looking at this carefully realizes that there’s a distinct anti-science flavor to this,” Fauci said in a Nov. 28, 2021, interview on CBS News’ “Face the Nation.” “So if they get up and criticize science, nobody’s going to know what they’re talking about. But if they get up and really aim their bullets at Tony Fauci, well, people could recognize there’s a person there. There’s a face, there’s a voice you can recognize, you see him on television. So it’s easy to criticize, but they’re really criticizing science because I represent science. That’s dangerous.” (Read more from “The Key Moments When Dr. Anthony Fauci Contradicted Himself During Heated COVID Hearing” HERE)

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Fauci Denies Seeking to Suppress COVID-19 Lab Leak Origin Theory

By Fox News. Dr. Anthony Fauci, former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, on Monday denied attempting to suppress the theory that the COVID-19 pandemic began as a result of a lab leak in Wuhan, China, during his opening statement before the House Oversight Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.

Lawmakers proceeded to grill Fauci throughout the hearing on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s six-feet distancing rule, the masking of schoolchildren and other pandemic-era restrictions.

Fauci testified affirmatively each time when asked by Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Texas, if business closures, church closures, school closures and stay at home order were justified, adding that “again, this was when we were trying to stop the tsunami of deaths that were occurring early on – how long you kept them going is debatable.”

Asked again about mask mandates, including those for children under the age of 5, Fauci said those were in the context of the time “when 5,000 people a day were dying.” . . .

“There was no study that did masks on kids before,” Fauci admitted. “You couldn’t do the study. You had to respond to an epidemic that was killing 4-5,000 Americans a day.” (Read more from “Fauci Denies Seeking to Suppress COVID-19 Lab Leak Origin Theory” HERE)

‘Science Doesn’t Belong To Any One Person’: Lawmakers Grill Fauci On Pandemic Origins

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Lawmakers grilled Dr. Anthony Fauci, who served as chief medical advisor to President Biden during the COVID-19 pandemic, for his assertions that he wasn’t responsible for the six-foot social distancing rule and other policies during his Monday testimony to the House Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.

The subcommittee’s chair, Ohio Republican Rep. Brad Wenstrup, took aim at Fauci’s infamous “I represent science” comments in his opening remarks.

“Science doesn’t belong to any one person,” Wenstrup said.

Democratic Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin later offered the first trickle of what would become a torrent effusive praise and penitence from the subcommittee’s minority side.

“The investigation of Dr. Fauci shows he is an honorable public servant who has devoted his entire career to the public health and the public interest and he is not a comic book supervillain,” Raskin claimed. “He did not fund research to create the COVID-19 pandemic. He did not lie to Congress about gain of function research in Wuhan and he did not organize a lab leak suppression campaign.” (Read more from “‘Science Doesn’t Belong To Any One Person’: Lawmakers Grill Fauci On Pandemic Origins” HERE)

Fauci Admits Social Distancing Guidelines Were Fabricated

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Dr. Anthony Fauci said in congressional testimony that he reviewed no scientific evidence behind the specific recommendations for masking children or maintaining 6-foot social distancing before advocating these policies during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The revelations come from the full transcript, released Friday, of Fauci’s closed-door transcribed interview session in January before the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. The publication comes days before the former director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is slated to testify in his first public hearing since his retirement in December 2022.

When asked about social distancing recommendations that were implemented in businesses and schools during the early stages of the pandemic, Fauci said he did not recall where the precise number of 6 feet came from.

“It just sort of appeared,” Fauci said in his interview. “I don’t recall, like, a discussion of whether it should be 5 or 6 or whatever.”

Fauci also said that he had not seen any scientific study supporting the measurement, noting that such a study would be “very difficult” to do with accuracy and scientific rigor.

The former NIAID chief also said the science behind masking recommendations for children is “still up in the air.” (Read more from “Fauci Admits Social Distancing Guidelines Were Fabricated” HERE)

What Are NIH Officials Hiding?: Fauci to Testify on America’s Response to COVID-19

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Expect fireworks. On Monday, Dr. Anthony Fauci is scheduled to testify under oath before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic to account for his performance during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fauci, former director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, appeared before the select subcommittee earlier this year for a closed-door, 14-hour transcribed interview conducted over two days.

Needless to say, congressional investigators have a lot of ground to cover Monday, ranging from Fauci’s advice on mask mandates to his oversight of coronavirus research grants and response to the Chinese origins of the global pandemic.

Meanwhile, subcommittee Chairman Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, has requested that Fauci, who retired at the end of 2022 after 38 years heading NIAID, turn over personal email accounts and cellphone records.

The reason: Dr. David Morens, Fauci’s senior adviser for over two decades, revealed to the subcommittee under oath May 22 that he transmitted official records to Fauci through his own personal email to avoid congressional inquiries or public oversight under the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA. (Read more from “What Are NIH Officials Hiding?: Fauci to Testify on America’s Response to COVID-19” HERE)

Dr. Anthony Fauci Deserves to Go to Prison Over ‘Dishonesty’ on COVID-19 Origins: Sen. Rand Paul

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Dr. Anthony Fauci “should go to prison” for mishandling the COVID-19 pandemic and making the “worst decision ever made by a public health official in the history of time” regarding the origins of the deadly outbreak, Sen. Rand Paul charged Sunday.

Paul, a Kentucky Republican and eye doctor, has repeatedly clashed with Fauci over mask-wearing, lockdowns and other emergency measures ordered and recommended by the then-director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

“History should judge him as a deficient person who made one of the worst decisions in public health history — in the entire history of the world,” Paul said of the former chief White House medical advisor during an interview on WABC 770 AM’s “The Cats Roundtable.”

The senator ripped “slipshod” Fauci, holding him culpable for research done in the Wuhan, China lab, which Paul believes triggered the viral outbreak.

“For his dishonesty, frankly, he should go to prison,” Paul told WABC host John Catsimatidis. “Do you think the scientific knowledge that was gained from this research was worth the deaths of 20 million people?” (Read more from “Dr. Anthony Fauci Deserves to Go to Prison Over ‘Dishonesty’ on COVID-19 Origins: Sen. Rand Paul” HERE)

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Dr. Fauci Says Practicing Catholicism Is a ‘Thing That I Don’t Really Need to Do’ (VIDEO)

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Dr. Anthony Fauci is under fire after telling the BBC that practicing the Catholic faith is a “thing that I don’t really need to do.”

During a recent appearance on the channel’s Influential with Katty Kay, President Joe Biden’s former medical adviser said he identifies as Catholic but doesn’t go to church because his “personal ethics” are “enough.” . . .

“You don’t practice [Catholicism] anymore?” she asked him.

“No,” the health official replied. The BBC hostess asked why.

“A number of complicated reasons. First of all, I think my own personal ethics on life are I think enough to keep me going on the right path,” Fauci answered. “And I think there are enough negative aspects about the organizational Church,” he continued, adding that Kay was “very well aware” of those aspects without listing them. (Read more from “Dr. Fauci Says Practicing Catholicism Is a ‘Thing That I Don’t Really Need to Do’” HERE)

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Fauci Roasted as ‘Fraud’ and ‘Liar’ After Being Confronted With Damning Study on Masks (VIDEO)

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Social media erupted after Dr. Anthony Fauci was confronted by a CNN host with a study showing face masks made little to no difference in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Conservative critics pounced on the former White House chief medical adviser after he acknowledged the masking study during the Saturday segment — while continuing to insist that, at an individual level, other research shows face coverings are effective at curtailing the spread of the virus.

“When you’re talking about the effect on the epidemic or the pandemic as a whole, the data are less strong,” Fauci admitted to CNN’s Michael Smerconish.

“But there are other studies, Michael, that show at an individual level, for individuals,” they might be protective, he said.

Fauci also stressed during the interview that at the moment “we’re not talking about forcing anybody to do anything.”

(Read more from “Fauci Roasted as ‘Fraud’ and ‘Liar’ After Being Confronted With Damning Study on Masks” HERE)

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Scientists Demand Full Retraction of COVID Natural Origins Paper Praised by Fauci

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Prominent scientists are demanding a full retraction of an early, highly influential paper on the origins of COVID-19 that downplayed the lab leak theory and was praised by Dr. Anthony Fauci.

“The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2,” published in March 2020 in the journal Nature Medicine, declared that COVID did not come from a lab despite private doubts from the authors that a lab leak was possible, and even “likely.”

“Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus,” wrote the five prominent scientists who authored the paper. “We do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible.”

However, emails from early 2020 that came to light earlier this year show that Fauci and the paper’s authors suspected all along that the virus may have been the result of a lab leak.

A total of 47 scientists and other STEM professionals signed an open letter to Nature Medicine journal calling for the paper to be retracted. (Read more from “Scientists Demand Full Retraction of COVID Natural Origins Paper Praised by Fauci” HERE)

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Dr. Anthony Fauci Is Caught in His Biggest COVID Lie Yet

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. . .Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has announced a criminal referral of Dr. Anthony Fauci to the Department of Justice over his apparent lying during congressional testimony in 2021.

Fauci insisted repeatedly that the National Institutes of Health had never funded any gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Paul contended at the time, in arguing with Fauci, that the research done on viruses at WIV — which got US funding — matched the NIH’s own description of gain-of-function research and accused Fauci of playing word games. . .

A newly surfaced February 2020 email about a COVID task-force call between him, his associates and UK science big Dr. Jeremy Farrar shows Fauci not only using the term “gain-of-function” to describe the work at Wuhan, but highlighting serious misgivings about the virus being of natural origin.

So not only does it look like Fauci was at the very least obfuscating during the 2021 testimony; it shows that he and other senior scientists (including then-NIH head Francis Collins, who was on the call) also took the lab-leak origin theory of COVID seriously. (Read more from “Dr. Anthony Fauci Is Caught in His Biggest COVID Lie Yet” HERE)

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