Dr Anthony Fauci, the medical face of the U.S. coronavirus response admitted that “something clearly went wrong” with the country’s COVID-19 response in an interview where he agreed that his mask mandates had failed— but absolved himself from some of the most impactful results of his anti-infection recommendations.
“Show me a school that I shut down and show me a factory that I shut down. Never. I never did,” said when questioned about the “heavy-handed” policies he suggested throughout the pandemic.
The embattled doctor said what he gave were public-health recommendations that echoed the CDC’s recommendation, and people made a decision based on that.”
The former chief medical advisor to the president whined that he was accused of shutting down the economy for relaying the national public health agency’s suggestions to shut down schools and businesses during the height of the pandemic.
Fauci repeatedly came under fire for sea-sawing on several preventative measures, most memorably mask mandates — he originally told Americans masking was not necessary before back peddling and pointing to the practice as a necessity to overcome the pandemic.
America’s top infectious disease expert admitted that Covid vaccine mandates he championed may have fueled a dip in confidence in routine shots.
In a rare admission of culpability, Fauci said the policies were ‘counterproductive’ and turned vaccine sceptics off rather than gain their favour.