{"id":2022221,"date":"2023-09-05T13:58:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T17:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-fauci-responds-to-study-that-shows-masks-dont-work\/"},"modified":"2023-09-05T13:58:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T17:58:55","slug":"watch-fauci-responds-to-study-that-shows-masks-dont-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-fauci-responds-to-study-that-shows-masks-dont-work\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Fauci&#8217;s Reaction to Study Debunking Mask Effectiveness"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fwatch-fauci-responds-to-study-that-shows-masks-dont-work%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=2022221&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 Responds \u200cto Study Questioning Mask Effectiveness<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Former White House health adviser\u2063 Dr. Anthony\u200b Fauci responded \u2063dismissively\u200b on \u2064Saturday to a study that found masks don&#8217;t work to stop the spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you&#8217;re talking about the effect [of masks] on the\u200b epidemic\u2064 or the\u200c pandemic as a\u200d whole,\u2063 the data are less strong,&#8221; Fauci told CNN&#8217;s Michael Smerconish after the host \u200breferenced a study that determined there&#8217;s &#8220;no evidence&#8221;\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/billionaire-bill-gates-advocates-for-shutdown-of-small-businesses-claims-covid-impact-will-continue-into-2022\/\" title=\"Billionaire Bill Gates Advocates for Shutdown of Small Businesses, Claims COVID Impact Will Continue Into 2022\">mask-wearing<\/a> \u200dhas any effect. &#8220;But \u2064when you talk about as an \u2064individual basis of someone protecting \u200bthemselves or protecting themselves from spreading it to others, there&#8217;s no doubt that there\u2062 are many studies that show that there is an advantage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Smerconish\u200c confronted Fauci with a <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/this-study-could-be-scientific-nail-in-the-coffin-for-masks\/\">study<\/a> the Cochrane Library published in January, which, \u2063in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-fauci-responds-to-study-that-shows-masks-dont-work\/\" title=\"VIDEO: Fauci's Reaction to Study Debunking Mask Effectiveness\">reviewing \u206478\u2064 randomized \u200ccontrol trials<\/a>,\u200c found that mask-wearing &#8220;probably makes little or\u200b no difference&#8221; in stopping the transmission of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But \u2063there\u200d are \u200cother studies, Michael,&#8221; Fauci said, &#8220;that show at an individual level, for individual\u2064 [sic].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fauci repeatedly \u200cendorsed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-spike-in-florida-coronavirus-cases-despite-no-mask-mandate\/\" title=\"No Spike in Florida Coronavirus Cases Despite No Mask Mandate\">mask mandates<\/a> during the pandemic,\u200c often warning against lifting them even as case numbers were falling. In \u200bFebruary\u200c 2022, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcra.com\/article\/we-better-be-careful-dr-fauci-warns-against-prematurely-ending-mask-mandates\/39142283#\">said<\/a> officials\u200c should be &#8220;careful&#8221; not to end restrictions &#8220;prematurely,&#8221; also calling for children in schools \u2062to &#8220;still be masked.&#8221; Two \u200cmonths \u2063later, \u2064he \u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/anthony-fauci-covid-mask-mandate-judge\/\">called<\/a> a\u2064 judge&#8217;s\u200d decision to overrule the Biden administration&#8217;s\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-insistence-by-democrat-politicians-and-medical-elites-empirical-evidence-does-not-conclusively-show-that-masks-reduce-the-spread-of-covid\/\" title=\"Despite Insistence by Democrat Politicians and Medical Elites, Empirical Evidence DOES NOT Conclusively Show that Masks Reduce the Spread of COVID\">mask mandate<\/a> on planes and public transit a\u2062 &#8220;dangerous precedent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fauci, the\u200d former head of the\u2063 National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has lately attempted to rewrite the \u2064history of his actions during the pandemic.\u200b In an April\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/fauci-tries-to-rewrite-history-in-new-york-times-interview\/\">interview<\/a>, he acknowledged that vaccine\u2063 mandates may have had a detrimental effect because\u200b Americans may feel resentment at being forced to take \u2063the shot. In October 2021, he said that &#8220;as\u2063 sensitive an issue&#8221; as vaccine\u200d mandates are, they do get &#8220;people \u2063more vaccinated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also claimed that he &#8220;never criticized\u200c the \u2064people who \u200bhad\u200c to make the decisions [on whether to lock down] one way \u200dor the other,&#8221; but he said\u200b in July 2020 that Americans should \u2062not &#8220;balance lives against the economy&#8221; and lambasted an August 2021 biker\u200d rally, saying \u2063it could cause a surge in \u200ccases.<\/p>\n<p>COVID-19 mandates are making \u200da \u2062comeback, with an <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/covid-hospitalizations-increase-6th-consecutive-week-historic-lows\/story?id=102645413\">uptick<\/a> in COVID-19 cases seeing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/mask-mandates-return-list-places-restrictions-1823069\">return<\/a> of masking and mask mandates\u2064 in colleges, hospitals, and companies across the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former White House health adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci brushed off a study suggesting masks are ineffective against COVID-19 transmission. Fauci stated that the data supporting masks&#8217; impact on the overall epidemic or pandemic is not as robust. He shared his perspective during an interview with CNN&#8217;s Michael Smerconish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2112,"featured_media":2022222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2022221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"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\/2022221","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\/2112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2022221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2022222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2022221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2022221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2022221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}