The NIAID director's book has also been removed from the Barnes & Noble website after his emails prompted a backlash.
"Profiting from the pandemic with a book deal is truly a new low," Rep. Andy Biggs tweeted on Tuesday. The Daily Caller's Greg Price said the NIAID director was about to make money from a book"while you lost your business and had your kids out of school for a year."sent to and from Dr. Fauci in the first few months of the COVID pandemic, revealing that he believed store-bought masks were"not really effective.
In an email on February 5, 2020, the health official said:"Masks are really for infected people to prevent them from spreading infection to people who are not infected rather than protecting uninfected people from acquiring infection." "The typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through material," he added."It might, however, provide some slight benefit in keep out gross droplets if someone coughs or sneezes on you."
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that people wear face masks in public spaces to stop the spread of COVID, unless they have been fully vaccinated. Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing on May 11, 2021.
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