{"id":1086871,"date":"2021-12-05T14:44:16","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T19:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1086871"},"modified":"2021-12-05T14:44:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T19:44:19","slug":"how-do-you-overhype-that-fauci-objects-to-ron-johnson-claim-that-he-wants-to-keep-people-scared-of-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-do-you-overhype-that-fauci-objects-to-ron-johnson-claim-that-he-wants-to-keep-people-scared-of-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018How Do You Overhype That?\u2019: Fauci Objects To Ron Johnson Claim That He Wants To Keep People Scared Of COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhow-do-you-overhype-that-fauci-objects-to-ron-johnson-claim-that-he-wants-to-keep-people-scared-of-covid%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1086871&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Dr. Anthony Fauci objected Sunday to claims made by Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) \u2014 namely that he was intentionally overhyping information about COVID-19 in an effort to keep Americans scared.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/its-not-hard-to-figure-out-msnbc-analyst-says-republicans-hate-fauci-because-they-dont-want-covid-to-go-away\/\">Fauci<\/a> spoke with CNN anchor Jake Tapper on Sunday\u2019s broadcast of \u201cState of the Union,\u201d and Tapper asked him to respond to Johnson\u2019s claims that he was \u201coverhyping\u201d the coronavirus pandemic. Johnson likened to to Fauci\u2019s response to HIV\/AIDS decades earlier, saying that he had \u201coverhyped\u201d that as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRepublican Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin said this week that you have been using coronavirus to keep Americans in fear and maintain control. Take a listen,\u201d Tapper said, rolling tape of Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe did the exact same thing with AIDS. He overhyped it. He created all kinds of fear saying it could affect the entire population, when it couldn\u2019t. And he is doing \u2013 using the exact same playbook with COVID,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Dr. Anthony Fauci responds to Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) saying Fauci \u201coverhyped\u201d AIDS and COVID:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOverhyping AIDS? It\u2019s killed over 750,000 Americans and 36 million people worldwide. How do you overhype that? Overhyping COVID? It\u2019s already killed 780,000 Americans \u2026\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RXNIJv0f8H\">pic.twitter.com\/RXNIJv0f8H<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Recount (@therecount) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therecount\/status\/1467496686717214728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 5, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, that\u2019s a bizarre and false assertion. President George W. Bush gave you the Presidential Medal of Freedom because of your leadership in the AIDS crisis,\u201d Tapper said before turning the floor over to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/fauci-im-advising-biden-on-new-testing-rules-for-everyone-entering-u-s-border-crossers-different-issue\/\">Fauci<\/a> for his response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, Jake, how do you respond to something as preposterous as that? Over hyping AIDS? It\u2019s killed over 750,000 Americans. 36 million people worldwide. How do you overhype that? Over hyping COVID? It\u2019s already killed 780,000 Americans and over 5 million people worldwide. So I don\u2019t have any clue of what he is talking about,\u201d Fauci replied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think he does either,\u201d Tapper agreed.<\/p>\n<p>Tapper and Fauci also discussed the continuing spread of the newest variant, known as <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/i-have-been-stunned-at-the-response-south-african-dr-who-reported-omicron-slams-hysteria\/\">omicron<\/a>, which has now been detected in more than a dozen states and several dozen countries worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s start with the omicron variant. Coronavirus cases in South Africa quadrupled in four days this week. Reportedly spreading twice as quickly as delta. But the South African president said overnight that hospitalizations from omicron are not increasing at an alarming rate,\u201d Tapper began. \u201cHave you seen evidence that hospitalizations or deaths were rising, not just cases? What does this suggest to you about this new variant?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fauci, noting that officials in South Africa had been transparent and forthcoming with all the information they had gathered, said that the consensus appeared to be that omicron would spread faster than previous variants but had thus far only been connected to milder symptoms in those who were infected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThus far, though it\u2019s too early to really make any definitive statements about it, thus far, it does not look like there\u2019s a great degree of severity to it. But we really gotta be careful before we make any determinations that it is less severe or really doesn\u2019t cause any severe illness comparable to delta. But thus far, the signals are a bit encouraging regarding the severity. But again, you have to hold judgment until we get more experience,\u201d Fauci replied.<\/p>\n<p>Fauci went on to note that the travel bans, put in place to restrict travel to the United States from several South African nations, had been a temporary measure to buy scientists more time to study omicron. \u201cHopefully, we will lift that ban within a reasonable period of time. We all feel very badly about the hardship that that might have put upon not only South Africa but the other african countries. For that reason, on a daily basis, we are re-evaluating that policy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is fighting Joe Biden\u2019s vaccine mandate in federal court.&nbsp; Join us in this fight by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lp.dailywire.com\/osha-petition\/\">signing our petition<\/a>&nbsp;to OSHA, telling them that you will not comply with this mandate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci objected Sunday to claims made by Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) \u2014 namely that he was intentionally overhyping information about COVID-19 in an effort to keep Americans scared.Fauci spoke with CNN anchor Jake Tapper on Sunday\u2019s broadcast of \u201cState of the Union,\u201d and Tapper asked him to respond to Johnson\u2019s claims that he was \u201coverhyping\u201d the coronavirus pandemic. Johnson likened to to Fauci\u2019s response to HIV\/AIDS decades earlier, saying that he had \u201coverhyped\u201d that as well.\u201cRepublican Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin said this week that you have been using coronavirus to keep Americans in fear and maintain control. Take a listen,\u201d Tapper said, rolling tape of Johnson.\u201cHe did the exact same thing with AIDS. He overhyped it. He created all kinds of fear saying it could affect the entire population, when it couldn\u2019t. And he is doing \u2013 using the exact same playbook with COVID,\u201d Johnson said.Dr. Anthony Fauci responds to Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) saying Fauci \u201coverhyped\u201d AIDS and COVID:\u201cOverhyping AIDS? It\u2019s killed over 750,000 Americans and 36 million people worldwide. How do you overhype that? Overhyping COVID? It\u2019s already killed 780,000 Americans \u2026\u201d pic.twitter.com\/RXNIJv0f8H\u2014 The Recount (@therecount) December 5, 2021\u201cObviously, that\u2019s a bizarre and false assertion. President George W. Bush gave you the Presidential Medal of Freedom because of your leadership in the AIDS crisis,\u201d Tapper said before turning the floor over to Fauci for his response.\u201cYou know, Jake, how do you respond to something as preposterous as that? Over hyping AIDS? It\u2019s killed over 750,000 Americans. 36 million people worldwide. How do you overhype that? Over hyping COVID? It\u2019s already killed 780,000 Americans and over 5 million people worldwide. So I don\u2019t have any clue of what he is talking about,\u201d Fauci replied.\u201cI don\u2019t think he does either,\u201d Tapper agreed.Tapper and Fauci also discussed the continuing spread of the newest variant, known as omicron, which has now been detected in more than a dozen states and several dozen countries worldwide.\u201cLet\u2019s start with the omicron variant. Coronavirus cases in South Africa quadrupled in four days this week. Reportedly spreading twice as quickly as delta. But the South African president said overnight that hospitalizations from omicron are not increasing at an alarming rate,\u201d Tapper began. \u201cHave you seen evidence that hospitalizations or deaths were rising, not just cases? What does this suggest to you about this new variant?\u201dFauci, noting that officials in South Africa had been transparent and forthcoming with all the information they had gathered, said that the consensus appeared to be that omicron would spread faster than previous variants but had thus far only been connected to milder symptoms in those who were infected.\u201cThus far, though it\u2019s too early to really make any definitive statements about it, thus far, it does not look like there\u2019s a great degree of severity to it. But we really gotta be careful before we make any determinations that it is less severe or really doesn\u2019t cause any severe illness comparable to delta. But thus far, the signals are a bit encouraging regarding the severity. But again, you have to hold judgment until we get more experience,\u201d Fauci replied.Fauci went on to note that the travel bans, put in place to restrict travel to the United States from several South African nations, had been a temporary measure to buy scientists more time to study omicron. \u201cHopefully, we will lift that ban within a reasonable period of time. We all feel very badly about the hardship that that might have put upon not only South Africa but the other african countries. For that reason, on a daily basis, we are re-evaluating that policy,\u201d he said.The Daily Wire is fighting Joe Biden\u2019s vaccine mandate in federal court.\u00a0 Join us in this fight by\u00a0signing our petition\u00a0to OSHA, telling them that you will not comply with this mandate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1086871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1086871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1086871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1086871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}