Dr. Fauci Admits He Should’ve Been ‘Much More Careful’ on Early COVID Messaging
variety.comMichaela Zee editor Dr. Anthony Fauci believes that he should’ve been “much more careful” in his messaging during the initial U.S.
COVID-19 outbreak, saying that his early statements should’ve repeated “the uncertainty of what we’re going through.” “When I said, ‘At this particular time, we should not necessarily do anything different,’ that’s when there was, like, five cases in the country,” Fauci said. “But then I said — I kid around about it — it was semicolon, ‘However, this could change rapidly and we need to be prepared.'” Fauci spoke with Washington Post national health reporter Dan Diamond on Oct.
5 at a seminar hosted by the University of Southern California’s Center for Health Journalism. Along with discussing COVID and monkeypox, Fauci recalled the media coverage of his role during the pandemic, and how he was both scrutinized and revered by the public. “When I say we should get vaccinated because it saves lives, and someone says ‘no,’ am I the polarizing figure?
Or is the person who’s saying something that’s completely untrue, creating the polarization?” Fauci asked rhetorically. “Some people say hydroxychloroquine works — it’s the end-all.
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