Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday defended his dismissing last year the idea of everyday Americans wearing masks to lower the risk of contracting COVID-19. Fauci in March 2020 said on CBS’ “60 Minutes” that people in the United States “should not be walking around wearing a mask,” after noting that many people in Asia were. The director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, when confronted with the clip on Sunday during an appearance on MSNBC, said that the White House Coronavirus Task Force was told “that there was a clear shortage of masks, and if we went around recommending masks, the health care providers putting themselves in harm’s way every single day would not have enough.” He also said that at the time, there was no evidence at the time that masks outside of the setting of the hospital worked. “Number three, we did not know that …