Fauci Debunks Ingraham To Her Face On HIV Vs COVID

Media Matters has the transcript:

LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): On the question of a vaccine, we don’t have a vaccine for SARS. I mean, they got close in mice. We don’t have a vaccine for HIV, and life did go on, right? So, the idea that we are definitely going to have a vaccine, we didn’t really approach much else in the same way as we are pegging going back to normal with a vaccine. Did we?

ANTHONY FAUCI: Well — no, but Laura, this is different. HIV/AIDS is entirely different. We don’t have a vaccine for HIV/AIDS but we have spectacularly effective treatment. People who invariably would have died years ago right now are leading essentially normal lives.

SARS is a different story. SARS disappeared. We developed a vaccine — we were in the process of going through the various phases. We showed it was safe, we showed it induced a good response and then SARS disappeared, and we didn’t need to develop a vaccine for SARS.

So I think it’s a little bit misleading maybe to compare what we are going through now with HIV or SARS. They’re really different.

Watch Fauci’s reaction when Laura Ingraham suggests Coronavirus could just disappear like SARS pic.twitter.com/MnhdLMIBbT

— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) April 17, 2020

Laura Ingraham tries to get Dr Fauci to attack Joe Biden and it did not go the way she hoped it would pic.twitter.com/MCBOi9Npun

— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) April 17, 2020

So Fauci’s on Laura Ingraham tonight. She played a tape of Biden being critical of trump & plans to deal with the virus. She tried to get Fauci to attack Biden. She kept trashing him & then said “what do you have to say to Biden?”
He said “Well, Laura, he’s right. Biden’s right”

— Mindy Fischer Writer (@NastyMindy) April 17, 2020

INGRAHAM: We don’t have a vaccine for SARS or HIV. Life went on, right?

FAUCI: HIV/AIDS is very different. We have effective treatments. And SARS went away. So your comparison is misleading.

I: But coronavirus could disappear too.

F: These kind of viruses don’t just disappear. pic.twitter.com/YptrqViRQx

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 17, 2020

Dr. Fauci absolutely destroyed Laura Ingraham tonight. I don’t think he will he invited back

— Angry Staffer (@AngrierWHStaff) April 17, 2020