Dr. Anthony Fauci on May 11 reiterated his criticism of the Great Barrington Declaration, refusing to back down from his previous remarks on the strategy for handling the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fauci in emails obtained by The Epoch Times compared the strategy to AIDs denialism and his former boss, Dr. Francis Collins, claimed the authors were “fringe scientists.”
Rep. Ben Cline (R-Va.) confronted Fauci over the messages during a hearing in Washington, noting that a recent review showed that many declaration signatories were top-cited authors.
Fauci said that the issue with the declaration is the authors were stating that officials should “let the virus run free in society and only so-called protect the vulnerable.” If that was done, he alleged, “we almost certainly would have had many more infections, many more hospitalizations, and many more deaths.
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