Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday scoffed at criticism that he “aligned himself” with Democratic leaders at the height of the COVID-19 outbreak.
When asked why the issue was politicized, Fauci, who had conceded that parts of the pandemic response were ““There is something I’ve never seen in my 54 years in medicine at the NIH, is that the acceptance or not of a life-saving intervention is steered very heavily by your political ideology,” he said.
“I mean, why would you ever want to see … more deaths among red state Republicans than there are among blue states Democrat? Merely because of the fact that there is less vaccination. You don’t want anybody to get sick.”earlier in the year, urged Americans to take rapid tests for COVID-19 ahead of any holiday parties or gatherings and “keep up on booster” shots, warning of the surge in transmission of BQ. 1, and the BQ 1.1 variants.
“I don’t align myself with anybody, Chuck,” the retiring chief White House medical adviser told NBC’s “Meet The Press” host Chuck Todd.“We have a long way to go to optimize our protection against COVID, which is really a shame, somewhat paradoxical, that a rich country with all the vaccines that we need, and we’re utilizing them at a much lower level than we should be,” Fauci told CBS News anchor Margaret Brennan.
More than 2,600 Americans died of the virus last week down from nearly 13,000 people during Thanksgiving Week last year,
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