{"id":1460044,"date":"2022-05-02T09:14:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T13:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1460044"},"modified":"2022-05-02T09:14:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T13:14:39","slug":"fauci-didnt-attend-white-house-correspondents-dinner-over-personal-risk-but-attended-crowded-pre-parties-maskless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fauci-didnt-attend-white-house-correspondents-dinner-over-personal-risk-but-attended-crowded-pre-parties-maskless\/","title":{"rendered":"Fauci Didn\u2019t Attend White House Correspondent\u2019s Dinner Over \u201cPersonal Risk\u201d But Attended Crowded Pre-Parties Maskless"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Ffauci-didnt-attend-white-house-correspondents-dinner-over-personal-risk-but-attended-crowded-pre-parties-maskless%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=1460044&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--><div><\/div>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) reportedly<strong> <\/strong>bailed on attending the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner Saturday night, saying this was a result of an &#8220;individual assessment of my personal risk.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>But Fauci still attended the crowed pre-parties, taking pics with notable media personalities. Fauci was photographed at the festivities, maskless with CNN host Don Lemon from various angles, some of which revealed masked event staff in the background.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019m glad The Help in the background is masked for the safety of Don Lem\u00f3n and Dr Kevorkian  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WHCD?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WHCD<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bk1tjqNjGA\">pic.twitter.com\/bk1tjqNjGA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ?????Hollaria Briden, Esq. (@HollyBriden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HollyBriden\/status\/1520559362808303616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\"><\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fauci bailed on attending the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner because of \u201cindividual assessment of my personal risk.&#8221; \u2026..so he just went to the crowed pre-parties <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WHCD?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WHCD<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OEkX9OuYHL\">pic.twitter.com\/OEkX9OuYHL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sean Spicer (@seanspicer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanspicer\/status\/1520823849805307904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>The host of the event, comedian Trevor Noah called attention to Fauci\u2019s absence during his opening monologue. &#8220;It is my great honor to be speaking tonight at the nation\u2019s most distinguished super-spreader event.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cFor real, people, what are we doing here?\u2026 I mean Dr. Fauci dropped out. That should\u2019ve been a pretty big sign!\u2026 Pete Davidson thinks it\u2019s ok.\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Trevornoah?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Trevornoah<\/a> ?? at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/whcd?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#whcd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yzbkj6PPqf\">pic.twitter.com\/yzbkj6PPqf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ddiamond\/status\/1520596588674093056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Noah continued, &#8220;Do you read any of your own newspapers? You guys spent the last two years telling everyone the importance of wearing masks and avoiding large, indoor gatherings, then the second someone offers you a free dinner, you all turn into Joe Rogan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Noah added, &#8220;Fauci thought it was too dangerous to come tonight. Pete Davidson thinks it\u2019s OK, and we all went with Pete.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Earlier in the week, Fauci, chief medical advisor to President Joe Biden, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/topic\/pbs\">PBS<\/a> that the US was &#8220;out of the pandemic phase.&#8221; However, the very next day he walked back that comment and told the <em>Associated Press, <\/em>&#8220;by no means does that mean the pandemic is over.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/health\/2022\/05\/01\/white-house-correspondents-dinner-reiner-biden-sot-vpx.cnn\">Jonathan Reiner<\/a>, a professor of medicine at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/topic\/george-washington\">George Washington<\/a> University, tweeted earlier in the week that the White House &#8220;has been walking a tightrope&#8221; when it comes to the virus. &#8220;They&#8217;re trying to portray that we&#8217;re in a much better place w\/ COVID and the risk is low. But the virus is surging in a lot of places and we&#8217;re nearing 1 million dead and they&#8217;re trying to protect POTUS without having everyone at the WH mask.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If the 2600 attendees at tonight\u2019s WHCA dinner want to show respect for our 79yo president they should all wear a mask when he is in the ballroom, rather than the opposite which is the way it\u2019s now planned.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jonathan Reiner (@JReinerMD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JReinerMD\/status\/1520366613211529216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 30, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Reiner also questioned why Biden would attend the WHCA dinner but Fauci avoiding it, tweeting, &#8220;Dr. Tony Fauci has decided not to attend this weekend&#8217;s WHCA dinner because he&#8217;s concerned that it could become a superspreader event. Why is the president still planning to attend?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fox News&#8217; Rachel Campos-Duffy says she didn&#8217;t go to the WHCD because she&#8217;s unvaxxed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And [Biden] tried to call out Fox News and say Fox News is all vaccinated. That\u2019s not true. Pete&#8217;s not vaccinated. I\u2019m not vaccinated&#8230;and so that\u2019s the part that I thought was so ironic.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jSjae1NFVc\">pic.twitter.com\/jSjae1NFVc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/justinbaragona\/status\/1520754948492963842?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Biden had no problem attending the large event maskless and mentioned that a requirement of attending was that everyone had to be \u201cvaccinated and boosted.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\"><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) reportedly bailed on attending the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner Saturday night, saying this was a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1460044","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\/1460044","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\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1460044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460044\/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=1460044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1460044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1460044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}