Fauci’s Expertise Is Called Into Question After He Flip Flops Again On COVID Guidance

Dr. Anthony Fauci, America’s “top” immunologist, has gone on to state first that Americans didn’t need to wear masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Then he said wear two masks, then back to one mask. He has also insisted that Americans should wear masks outdoors even if they’re vaccinated.

Fauci, President Biden’s chief medical adviser on COVID-19, said now he thinks that isn’t the case and that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will soon update its COVID-19 guidance on wearing face masks outdoors.

“I mean, if you are a vaccinated person, wearing a mask outdoors, I mean, obviously, the risk is minuscule,” Fauci said on Sunday.

“What I believe you’re going to be hearing, what the country is going to be hearing soon, is updated guidelines from the CDC,” Fauci stated on ABC News. “The CDC is a science-based organization. They don’t want to make any guidelines unless they look at the data and the data backs it up.”

“But when you look around at the common sense situation, the risk is really low, especially if you’re vaccinated,” he said.

Back in March 2020, when the World Health Organization (WHO) was telling everyone it was mostly surface transmission, Fauci declared, “There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask.”

Just last week, the CDC put out new guidance. “It is possible for people to be infected through contact with contaminated surfaces or objects (fomites), but the risk is generally considered to be low,” the guidance says. The CDC added that the chance of contracting the coronavirus through surface transmission is lower than 1 in 10,000.

The truth of the matter is that scientists even after a year of studies still don’t really know everything about this virus.

Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, said last month that the six-foot social distancing mandate put in place across much of the U.S. “wasn’t based on clear science.”

“This six-foot distancing requirement has probably been the single costliest mitigation tactic that we’ve employed in response to COVID … and it really wasn’t based on clear science … We should have re-adjudicated this much earlier,” he said in an interview with CNBC.