Tag Archives: Anthony Fauci

The Hill reports: Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) escalated his feud with the federal government’s leading infectious disease expert on Monday, calling Anothony Fauci a “petty tyrant” for suggesting Americans vaccinated against the coronavirus should not eat or drink indoors. “Fauci continues to ignore 100 years of vaccine science,” Paul wrote in a tweet Monday morning. “His only real theme is …

Mediaite reports: Dr. Anthony Fauci told MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan that booster shots for the Covid-19 vaccine very well may be needed after about a year or so to maintain immunity against the virus. “We need to be careful about that six month number,” said Fauci, noting that that time period was how long they had been able to study so …

CBS News reports: Dr. Anthony Fauci said in an interview released Monday that the federal government won’t be mandating vaccine passports for travel and businesses. The White House has indicated that any potential passports would come from the private sector, with little direct involvement from the government. “I doubt that the federal government will be the main mover of a …

CNN reports: Dr. Anthony Fauci didn’t mince words when he described how he felt seeing his previous boss, President Trump, calling on states to “liberate” themselves in April 2020 while large swaths of the country remained shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. “The thing that hit me like a punch to the chest was then all of a sudden he …

CNN reports: Dr. Anthony Fauci labeled the theory that former US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield shared with CNN that the novel coronavirus spread earlier and “escaped” from a lab in China as just “an opinion.” “Obviously, there are a number of theories,” said Fauci, during a White House Covid-19 Response Team briefing on Friday. …

CNBC reports: In a fiery exchange during a Senate hearing examining the nation’s coronavirus response efforts, Paul told Fauci that Americans shouldn’t have to wear masks after getting vaccinated because there is “virtually 0% chance” they are going to get Covid-19. “Isn’t it just theater?” the Kentucky junior senator, an ophthalmologist, asked during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions …

Axios reports: NIAID Director Anthony Fauci told “Fox News Sunday” that “it would make all the difference in the world” if former President Trump urged his supporters to take the coronavirus vaccine. Republicans — particularly men in the party — are the least likely demographic to say they plan to get vaccinated against the virus, recent polls suggest. “If he …

NBC News reports: Dr. Anthony Fauci warned state leaders against the “risky business” of eliminating public health measures, raising concerns on Sunday’s Meet the Press that the nation could see a new surge in cases if it lets its guard down. “Even though the decline was steep, we absolutely need to avoid the urge to say; ‘Oh, everything is going …

CBS News reports: Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Biden, said Sunday that the number of vaccine doses available will sharply rise in the coming weeks following federal approval of a third coronavirus vaccine. Fauci said the nation is “going in the right direction,” but stressed that mitigation measures should be rolled back slowly and carefully as more …

Reuters reports: Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease official, said on Sunday he would take the newly approved Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, as he encouraged Americans to accept any of the three approved shots. “All three of them are really quite good, and people should take the one that’s most available to them. If you go to …

CNN reports: Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said he expects US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance for fully vaccinated people will be coming soon. Fauci said that the CDC wants “to make sure they sit down, talk about it, look at the data and then come out with a recommendation …

The Associated Press reports: Dr. Anthony Fauci has won the $1 million Dan David Prize for “defending science” and advocating for vaccines now being administered worldwide to fight the coronavirus pandemic. The Israel-based Dan David Foundation on Monday named President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser as the winner of one of three prizes. It said he had earned the recognition …

The Washington Post reports: Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s highest-ranking infectious-disease expert, struck a hopeful tone about vaccine availability in the coming months, predicting Thursday that there could be an “open season” on doses by April. “By the time we get to April, that will be what I would call, for better wording, ‘open season,’ namely, virtually everybody and anybody …

ABC News reports: The White House COVID-19 Response team and federal public health officials are slated to hold a press briefing on Monday to discuss the government’s response to the raging pandemic. Participants in the 11 a.m. ET briefing include Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, Andy Slavitt, Senior Advisor to the White House COVID-19 Response Team, and Dr. Rochelle …

CBS News reports: Federal public health experts and members of the White House COVID-19 response team are holding their inaugural briefing Wednesday on the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic, after President Joe Biden announced plans to ramp up the weekly supply of COVID-19 vaccines to states and territories in the coming days. The group will take questions from reporters …

The Hill reports: Anthony Fauci on Friday said that a lack of facts “likely did” cost lives over the last year in the nation’s efforts to fight the coronavirus pandemic. In an appearance on CNN, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert was directly asked whether a “lack of candor or facts” contributed to the number of lives lost during the …

Axios reports: Infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said on Tuesday that if the coronavirus vaccine rollout by the incoming Biden administration goes as planned, the U.S. could start to see effects of herd immunity and normalcy by early-to-mid fall. “If we [vaccinate] efficiently in April, May, June, July, August, we should have that degree of protection that could get us …

The Hill reports: Appearing on ABC’s “This Week,” Fauci was asked by guest host Martha Raddatz about a tweet by the president calling the coronavirus case and death toll “fake news” and blaming it on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention methodology. “Well, the deaths are real deaths. I mean, all you need to do is to go out into …

CNBC reports: “We would’ve liked to have seen it run smoothly and have 20 million doses into people today, by the end of the (year) 2020, which was the projection. Obviously, it didn’t happen and that’s disappointing,” Fauci said Thursday on NBC’s “TODAY” show. “Hopefully, as you get into the first couple of weeks in January, the gaining of momentum …

The New York Daily News reports: Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday that he believes the worst is still yet to come in the COVID-19 pandemic — and Americans should brace for post-holiday season “surge” in cases. “We very well might see a post-seasonal — in the sense of Christmas, New Years — surge or as I’ve described it, a surge …