Hugh Hewitt To Anthony Fauci: A Lot Of Americans Have Lost Faith In The FDA, CDC, And You

HUGH HEWITT: Controversies, since the virus started, include:

- botched testing at the beginning
- no research on masks for children in primary care
- the J & J pause
- the controversy over the use or non-use of Ivermectin, and there has been no study yet completed
- no discussion of natural immunity, which exists
- the discussion of herd immunity which has switched back and forth
- the mask discussion at the beginning. Don't wear masks, the noble lie, and the wear masks
- now, equity issues in the FDA panel's scientific discussion

I've lost confidence in the CDC and the FDA.

I actually believe a lot of Americans, a significant part of America, now have lost confidence in you, Dr. Fauci. Is there a point where you will say: 'I have done more harm than good because people don't listen to me anymore' and step aside?

DR. ANTHONY FAUCI: No. Absolutely, unequivocally no, Hugh.

ANTHONY FAUCI: I think you have to put it into perspective of what is going on in the country with regard to COVID-19, the now, you know, inching close to 700,000 deaths with a vaccine that unequivocally from a scientific and public health standpoint has been shown to be highly effective and safe. And although I do respect people’s individual rights to make their decisions, there is also a part of it, Hugh, that is what I refer to as societal responsibility. And although there are individual choices that people can make, when you’re dealing with a deadly pandemic, you’ve got to also understand your responsibility to the society within which you live. So I wouldn’t want to be pointing a finger at this young man, but I would hope to be able to get him to understand that by allowing the virus to infect you, even though as an individual you say I’ll take my own chances, I don’t care, I’m young, I’m healthy, the likelihood that I’m going to get a serious disease is low, which is true. You can’t deny that. But what happens is that when you do get infected, it’s very well likely that you might pass that infection on to someone who would suffer very terribly from that virus. So you don’t want to be a vehicle for the propagation of an outbreak that unequivocally has devastated society.