{"id":1919577,"date":"2023-04-26T19:58:34","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T23:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flip-flopping-fauci-says-not-to-blame-him-for-lockdowns-school-closures-he-advocated-for\/"},"modified":"2023-04-26T19:59:46","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T23:59:46","slug":"flip-flopping-fauci-says-not-to-blame-him-for-lockdowns-school-closures-he-advocated-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flip-flopping-fauci-says-not-to-blame-him-for-lockdowns-school-closures-he-advocated-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Flip-Flopping Fauci Says Not to Blame Him for Lockdowns, School Closures He Advocated for"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fflip-flopping-fauci-says-not-to-blame-him-for-lockdowns-school-closures-he-advocated-for%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=1919577&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>\n<h2>Dr. Fauci Admits Mistakes Were Made in COVID-19 Response<\/h2>\n<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci, former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, recently spoke to The New York Times Magazine about the government&#8217;s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. While he acknowledged that mistakes were made, he emphasized that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the surgeon general were not economic organizations and therefore made decisions from a purely public-health standpoint. Fauci also clarified that he did not personally shut down the economy, but rather gave public-health recommendations that were echoed by the CDC.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4225979\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20\/GettyImages-1231382508-1200x822.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20\/GettyImages-1231382508-1200x822.jpeg\" alt=\"Dr. Anthony Fauci listens as U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about the 50 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine shot administered in the United States\" \/><br \/>\n    <\/a><figcaption>White House chief medical adviser on COVID-19 Dr. Anthony Fauci listens as U.S. President Joe Biden (out of frame) speaks about the 50 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine shot administered in the United States, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington on Feb. 25, 2021. (Saul Loeb\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>Masking Confusion<\/h3>\n<p>Fauci also addressed the issue of masking, admitting that he and other officials were not fully aware of the highly transmissible nature of the virus in the beginning. He initially advised against wearing masks before changing his stance and supporting their use. Fauci acknowledged that the culture wars surrounding masking only made things worse and that while he believes masks work, they are not perfect and their effect at the population level can be somewhat small.<\/p>\n<h3>COVID-19 Statistics<\/h3>\n<p>According to official CDC statistics, over 1.1 million Americans have died from COVID-19-related conditions. The Biden administration has emphasized vaccinations as a way to lower transmission rates and protect against the virus, but vaccine mandates have proven to be polarizing and have resulted in job loss for some who opted not to get vaccinated. The CDC later acknowledged that natural immunity after COVID-19 infection provided strong protection against the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the challenges faced during the pandemic, Fauci remains committed to public health and science-based decision-making.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4597544\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1.tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI6D036-FILEDIMAGE-1200x800.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1.tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI6D036-FILEDIMAGE-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"Children wear a mask and wait for President Joe Biden to visit their pre-kindergarten class at East End Elementary School to highlight the early childhood education proposal in his Build Back Better infrastructure agenda in North Plainfield, N.J.\" \/><br \/>\n    <\/a><figcaption>Children wear a mask and wait for President Joe Biden to visit their pre-kindergarten class at East End Elementary School to highlight the early childhood education proposal in his Build Back Better infrastructure agenda in North Plainfield, N.J., on Oct. 25, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst\/Reuters)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci has insisted that he is not to blame for millions of Americans having to go into lockdown during the\u00a0COVID-19 pandemic, but acknowledged that something \u201cwent wrong\u201d with the government\u2019s response to the pandemic. Fauci made the comments in an interview with The New York Times Magazine\u00a0on April 25 when questioned about the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1919578,"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":[547],"tags":[25217,6442,4879,4434,25218,4619,3924],"class_list":["post-1919577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-advocated","tag-blame","tag-closures","tag-fauci","tag-flip-flopping","tag-lockdowns","tag-school"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919577","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=1919577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1919578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1919577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1919577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1919577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}