{"id":1696514,"date":"2022-10-16T15:34:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T19:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1696514"},"modified":"2022-10-16T15:34:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T19:34:45","slug":"dr-fauci-the-misconception-is-that-i-was-misleading-people-about-face-masks-school-lockdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dr-fauci-the-misconception-is-that-i-was-misleading-people-about-face-masks-school-lockdowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Fauci: \u2018The Misconception Is That I Was Misleading People\u2019 About Face Masks, School Lockdowns"},"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\">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%2Fdr-fauci-the-misconception-is-that-i-was-misleading-people-about-face-masks-school-lockdowns%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=1696514&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 denied that he misled the American people on COVID mitigation measures and policies.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with ABC\u2019s Jonathan Karl on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/dr-fauci-prepares-exit-reflects-legacy-covid-decisions\/story?id=91553536\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This Week<\/a>\u201d that aired on Sunday, Fauci said the biggest misconception about him was that he misled the public when narratives changed, especially regarding face coverings and school closures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, what\u2019s the biggest misconception about you?\u201d Karl asked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fnmMv geuMB alqtB wqIGQ\">\u201cI think the misconception is that I was misleading people,\u201d Fauci replied. \u201cYou know, to say that I, who have been adviser to seven presidents, and have never ever veered one way or the other from an ideological standpoint, and for somebody to say that, you know, I\u2019m\u2026 political, I mean that\u2019s completely crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Fauci acknowledged that mistakes were made, resulting in changes as health officials learned more about COVID and how it was transmitted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fnmMv geuMB alqtB wqIGQ\">\u201cWould you take back what you said about masks?\u201d Karl asked. \u201cObviously, the guidance changed\u2026 but you were very definitive. You said there\u2019s absolutely no reason for people to be wearing masks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"fnmMv geuMB alqtB wqIGQ\">\u201cYes. I mean, sure, if I had to do it over again, of course. I would have analyzed it a little bit better,\u201d said Fauci.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fnmMv geuMB alqtB wqIGQ\">Karl then asked Fauci if it was a mistake to close schools for much of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fnmMv geuMB alqtB wqIGQ\">\u201cI don\u2019t want to use the word \u2018mistake,\u2019 Jon, because if I do it gets taken out of the context that you\u2019re asking me the question on,\u201d Fauci equivocated. \u201cI would say that what we should realize and have realized, that there will be deleterious collateral consequences when you do something like that. This idea that this virus doesn\u2019t afflict children is not so. It does. We\u2019ve lost close to 1,500 kids so far\u2026 So, it isn\u2019t without consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"fnmMv geuMB alqtB wqIGQ\">\u201cIf you go back, and I ask anybody to go back over the number of times that I\u2019ve said we\u2019ve got to do everything we can to keep the schools open, no one plays that clip. They always come back and say, \u2018Fauci was responsible for closing schools.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"fnmMv geuMB alqtB wqIGQ\">\u201cBut a lot of schools were closed,\u201d Karl pressed. \u201c[T]here was a lot of remote learning\u2026 It went on\u2013 in some jurisdictions for the better part of two years\u2026 And we\u2019ve seen the impact. We\u2019ve seen what\u2019s happened in terms of lower reading scores, lower math scores\u2026 And who knows the psychological impact\u2026 I mean it was a steep cost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"fnmMv geuMB alqtB wqIGQ\">\u201cIt was,\u201d Fauci admitted. But \u201c[t]he most important thing is to protect the children,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>In August, Fauci announced plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-fauci-reveals-he-will-retire-this-year-pursue-next-chapter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">retire from his posts<\/a> as the president\u2019s top medical adviser and the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will be leaving these positions in December of this year to pursue the next chapter of my career,\u201d he said. \u201cAfter more than 50 years of government service, I plan to pursue the next phase of my career while I still have so much energy and passion for my field.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to use what I have learned as NIAID Director to continue to advance science and public health and to inspire and mentor the next generation of scientific leaders as they help prepare the world to face future infectious disease threats.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci denied that he misled the American people on COVID mitigation measures and policies. In an interview with ABC\u2019s Jonathan Karl on \u201cThis Week\u201d that aired on Sunday, Fauci said the biggest misconception about him was that he misled the public when narratives changed, especially regarding face coverings and school closures. \u201cSo, what\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1696514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/dr-fauci-the-misconception-is-that-i-was-misleading-people-about-face-masks-school-lockdowns","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696514","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1696514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1696514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1696514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1696514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}