During an interview on Tuesday, Dr. Fauci, who has served as the government’s Coronavirus mouthpiece for the Trump and Biden administrations said the country is out of the pandemic stage. However, it wouldn’t be Dr. Fauci if he didn’t immediately flip-flop and warn that the global pandemic is still raging.
per Fox News:
“We are certainly right now in this country out of the pandemic phase,” Dr. Fauci said during an interview with PBS NewsHour Judy Woodruff, according to a transcript of the interview.
Fauci’s answer came immediately after he was initially asked, “How close are we to the end of this pandemic?” He called that an “unanswerable question.”
“We don’t have 900,000 new infections a day and tens and tens and tens of thousands of hospitalizations and thousands of deaths. We are at a low level right now,” Fauci added. “So, if you’re saying, are we out of the pandemic phase in this country, we are.”
The president’s chief medical advisor then followed his answer up by saying that the U.S. was “not going to eradicate this virus” and that the government should continue to “intermittently vaccinate people,” per the transcript.
