The forum "scholars" all ganged up on us. Will they be man enough to admit that they were duped? Maybe he wasn't following the science.
Fauci flip flops during first 7-hour session of grilling before House
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Fauci also U-turned on his views of President Donald Trump's 2020 orders to restrict incoming travelers from China.
He told Congress yesterday that he supported the ban - despite publicly criticizing the move in 2020.
The former President moved to restrict travel from China in January 2020 soon after Chinese officials identified around 10,000 cases of the novel virus.
Leading political figures on the left including President Joe Biden calling the then-President's travel restrictions 'hysteria, xenophobia, and fear-mongering.'
Dr Fauci, once seen as an 'adult in the room' amid a chaotic and confusing government response to the initial 2020 outbreak, has seen his sparkling public image take a hit in recent years.
He flip-flopped on crucial Covid safety information including masks and worked to silence scientists with views that differed from the mainstream.
The full extent of Dr Fauci's testimony over the two days will be released after lawyers review their content to make sure no restricted information will be made public, though it's not clear when that will be.
The snippets were revealed by Republicans on the committee, who laid out the key takeaways on a lengthy Twitter (X) thread.
Ohio Republican Brad Wenstrup, who heads up the subcommittee for the pandemic response, said Tuesday: 'Dr Fauci's transcribed interview revealed systemic failures in our public health system and shed light on serious procedural concerns with our public health authority.
'While we remain frustrated with Dr Fauci's inability to recollect Covid-19 information that is important for our investigation, others we have spoken to do recall the facts.'
Newly released highlights from the second day's hearing revealed that the committee honed in on the issues of social distancing, mandatory vaccinations, early travel bans, and the now-infamous paper that called the lab leak a conspiracy.
Dr Fauci told the committee that scientific data was not a driver of the blanket six-feet-distance recommendation to reduce the spread of the virus, saying that the rule 'just sort of appeared.'
He also said that vaccine mandates, which split the nation in 2021, likely reinforced a general sense of distrust in the government with more and more people questioning its motives.
Republicans on the House committee said that Dr Fauci 'advised American universities to impose vaccine mandates on their students.'
While it is not clear exactly how Dr Fauci engaged with university leaders to install vaccine requirements, it is well known that he supported such mandates on university campuses as well as primary and high schools.
Mandates also sparked outrage about what millions of Americans perceived as government infringement on their personal freedoms.
Many chose to eschew the vaccines to, in their view, preserve their own autonomy despite mandates for attending university, going work, or taking public transit.
Rep Wenstrup told the Washington Examiner: 'I can't get into his mind, but I think he felt it was the right thing to do because he thought it would save lives… but he basically was saying the lesson learned [was it] didn't get into the psyche of America.'
Dr Fauci was also said to have 'played semantics' with the definition of the lab leak theory, which maintains that the coronavirus that started sweeping the globe in early 2020 emerged from a Chinese lab where researchers tinker with viruses to make them more transmissible and/or virulent.
He was specifically speaking about the now-infamous Proximal Origins paper published in the journal Nature Medicine in March 2020. The paper argued that Covid had most likely evolved naturally after spilling over from animal reservoirs, rather than being engineered by scientists.
Dr Fauci was not an author of the paper, but he has come under fire for his role in commissioning it.
A House investigation later reported that Dr Fauci, along with former National Institutes of Health head Dr Francis Collins, orchestrated a conference call before the paper would be published, during which time they allegedly strong-armed scientists into publishing the natural origin theory.
But Dr Krisian Andersen, a co-author of the Proximal Origins paper who initially believed the virus showed signs of being genetically manipulated in a lab, told Congress last year, 'there was no 'prompting' to disprove, or dismiss, a potential 'lab leak.'
'Although Drs. Fauci and Collins were on emails containing documents that would eventually help form the basis of the Proximal Origin paper, they were not sent drafts or final versions of the paper for 'editing and approval', nor did they, or any other NIH official, provide any edits or suggestions on the paper.'
Still, emails from Dr Andersen included language that Fauci 'prompted' him to write the paper with the goal of 'disproving' the lab leak theory, Dr Andersen told Congress that the statements they highlighted 'are false and based on selective quote-mining of private emails, misrepresenting what was said.'
Fauci ignores reporter as he enters Capitol for Covid interview
Below are listed some of his key blunders when the virus struck
Don't wear masks, do wear masks
As global concern for Covid was surfacing in March 2020, Fauci told Americans that there was 'no need' to wear a face mask.
He said they may only help people 'feel a little better', and 'might even block a droplet' — but would not provide good protection.
Less than a month later, he was forced into an embarrassing climbdown after it emerged the virus spread via droplets in the air.
Dr Fauci later insisted he advised people not to wear masks to ensure there were enough available for hospitals and healthcare centers.
Covid did not come from a lab
Dr Fauci has also repeatedly insisted that Covid did not leak from a lab in China.
He called the theory a 'shiny object that will go away', and brushed aside claims from other top experts as an 'opinion'.
Dr Fauci has now backpedalled, saying instead that he keeps an 'open mind' although insisting that it remains 'most likely' that the virus spilled over from animals to humans.
Two jabs will stop you catching Covid
When the Covid vaccine roll-out was in full swing, Dr Fauci said the immunity from shots made doubly-vaccinated people a 'dead end' for the virus, and even suggested they may no longer need to wear masks.
Schools shutdown
Schools were closed from March through to August 2020, something Dr Fauci later expressed regret about.
But he said last month that he 'should have realized' there would be 'deleterious collateral consequences'.
Children are now bearing the brunt of the US's tripledemic, after lockdowns left them without proper immune defense.
Funding Wuhan lab
In 2014, Dr Facui's agency issued a $3.7million grant to EcoHealth Alliance, which some allege was used to support gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).
admit their ignorance?
Fauci flip flops during first 7-hour session of grilling before House
745 viewing now
Fauci also U-turned on his views of President Donald Trump's 2020 orders to restrict incoming travelers from China.
He told Congress yesterday that he supported the ban - despite publicly criticizing the move in 2020.
The former President moved to restrict travel from China in January 2020 soon after Chinese officials identified around 10,000 cases of the novel virus.
Leading political figures on the left including President Joe Biden calling the then-President's travel restrictions 'hysteria, xenophobia, and fear-mongering.'
Dr Fauci, once seen as an 'adult in the room' amid a chaotic and confusing government response to the initial 2020 outbreak, has seen his sparkling public image take a hit in recent years.
He flip-flopped on crucial Covid safety information including masks and worked to silence scientists with views that differed from the mainstream.
The full extent of Dr Fauci's testimony over the two days will be released after lawyers review their content to make sure no restricted information will be made public, though it's not clear when that will be.
The snippets were revealed by Republicans on the committee, who laid out the key takeaways on a lengthy Twitter (X) thread.
Ohio Republican Brad Wenstrup, who heads up the subcommittee for the pandemic response, said Tuesday: 'Dr Fauci's transcribed interview revealed systemic failures in our public health system and shed light on serious procedural concerns with our public health authority.
'While we remain frustrated with Dr Fauci's inability to recollect Covid-19 information that is important for our investigation, others we have spoken to do recall the facts.'
Dr Denial? Fauci STILL thinks Covid was natural - despite lab leak ties
Newly released highlights from the second day's hearing revealed that the committee honed in on the issues of social distancing, mandatory vaccinations, early travel bans, and the now-infamous paper that called the lab leak a conspiracy.
Dr Fauci told the committee that scientific data was not a driver of the blanket six-feet-distance recommendation to reduce the spread of the virus, saying that the rule 'just sort of appeared.'
He also said that vaccine mandates, which split the nation in 2021, likely reinforced a general sense of distrust in the government with more and more people questioning its motives.
Republicans on the House committee said that Dr Fauci 'advised American universities to impose vaccine mandates on their students.'
While it is not clear exactly how Dr Fauci engaged with university leaders to install vaccine requirements, it is well known that he supported such mandates on university campuses as well as primary and high schools.
Mandates also sparked outrage about what millions of Americans perceived as government infringement on their personal freedoms.
Many chose to eschew the vaccines to, in their view, preserve their own autonomy despite mandates for attending university, going work, or taking public transit.
Rep Wenstrup told the Washington Examiner: 'I can't get into his mind, but I think he felt it was the right thing to do because he thought it would save lives… but he basically was saying the lesson learned [was it] didn't get into the psyche of America.'
Dr Fauci was also said to have 'played semantics' with the definition of the lab leak theory, which maintains that the coronavirus that started sweeping the globe in early 2020 emerged from a Chinese lab where researchers tinker with viruses to make them more transmissible and/or virulent.
He was specifically speaking about the now-infamous Proximal Origins paper published in the journal Nature Medicine in March 2020. The paper argued that Covid had most likely evolved naturally after spilling over from animal reservoirs, rather than being engineered by scientists.
Dr Fauci was not an author of the paper, but he has come under fire for his role in commissioning it.
A House investigation later reported that Dr Fauci, along with former National Institutes of Health head Dr Francis Collins, orchestrated a conference call before the paper would be published, during which time they allegedly strong-armed scientists into publishing the natural origin theory.
But Dr Krisian Andersen, a co-author of the Proximal Origins paper who initially believed the virus showed signs of being genetically manipulated in a lab, told Congress last year, 'there was no 'prompting' to disprove, or dismiss, a potential 'lab leak.'
'Although Drs. Fauci and Collins were on emails containing documents that would eventually help form the basis of the Proximal Origin paper, they were not sent drafts or final versions of the paper for 'editing and approval', nor did they, or any other NIH official, provide any edits or suggestions on the paper.'
Still, emails from Dr Andersen included language that Fauci 'prompted' him to write the paper with the goal of 'disproving' the lab leak theory, Dr Andersen told Congress that the statements they highlighted 'are false and based on selective quote-mining of private emails, misrepresenting what was said.'
Fauci ignores reporter as he enters Capitol for Covid interview
What did Fauci get wrong? From telling people not to wear masks to claiming vaccines stopped infections
Dr Anthony Fauci is due to step down from his position as one of America's top infectious disease advisors at the end of this year.Below are listed some of his key blunders when the virus struck
Don't wear masks, do wear masks
As global concern for Covid was surfacing in March 2020, Fauci told Americans that there was 'no need' to wear a face mask.
He said they may only help people 'feel a little better', and 'might even block a droplet' — but would not provide good protection.
Less than a month later, he was forced into an embarrassing climbdown after it emerged the virus spread via droplets in the air.
Dr Fauci later insisted he advised people not to wear masks to ensure there were enough available for hospitals and healthcare centers.
Covid did not come from a lab
Dr Fauci has also repeatedly insisted that Covid did not leak from a lab in China.
He called the theory a 'shiny object that will go away', and brushed aside claims from other top experts as an 'opinion'.
Dr Fauci has now backpedalled, saying instead that he keeps an 'open mind' although insisting that it remains 'most likely' that the virus spilled over from animals to humans.
Two jabs will stop you catching Covid
When the Covid vaccine roll-out was in full swing, Dr Fauci said the immunity from shots made doubly-vaccinated people a 'dead end' for the virus, and even suggested they may no longer need to wear masks.
Schools shutdown
Schools were closed from March through to August 2020, something Dr Fauci later expressed regret about.
But he said last month that he 'should have realized' there would be 'deleterious collateral consequences'.
Children are now bearing the brunt of the US's tripledemic, after lockdowns left them without proper immune defense.
Funding Wuhan lab
In 2014, Dr Facui's agency issued a $3.7million grant to EcoHealth Alliance, which some allege was used to support gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).
admit their ignorance?
