“Dr. “Fauci has been vaccinated four times and continues to say he does not feel comfortable going to the White House correspondents’ dinner this Saturday night,” Dr. Marty Makari, a Fox News medical associate, told Tucker Carlson on Wednesday. the evening. “This is the person behind all COVID policies in the United States.” The outburst came after President Biden’s chief medical adviser said on Tuesday that the United States was “out of the COVID-19 pandemic phase”, to withdraw his comment the very next day.
Fauci, 81, earlier this week decided to retire from the annual black tie event to celebrate the press, citing his personal concerns about the coronavirus, even though he has been fully vaccinated against the disease and has received two extra booster shots. As originally reported by CNN, Fauci had been invited to attend the gala as a guest on ABC News and had planned to go, but later changed his mind. President Biden, 79, is expected to attend a dinner hosted by the White House Correspondents Association on Saturday, with The Daily Show host Trevor Noah as the night’s entertainer. Dr. Anthony Fauci announced on April 26, 2022 that the United States came out of the pandemic phase only to change it the next day. Greg Nash / Pool via REUTERS / File PhotoTucker Carlson talks to Dr. Marty Makary for Fauci on Fox News.Fox Appearing on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Markary, a surgeon and public policy specialist at Johns Hopkins Hospital, sought to drill holes in Fauci’s credibility by noting that he had completed a rheumatology fellowship, not an infectious disease fellowship. “Dr. Fauci is allowed to have an opinion. “I think he has experience and he should weigh it, but let’s be honest – he is not a doctor of infectious diseases,” Markari joked.
Rheumatology is the study of diseases that affect the muscles, bones, joints, ligaments and tendons. Dr. Marty Makary hit Fauci on Fox News saying he was not an infectious disease doctor. Fox Although Fauci started in this field of medicine, from 1984 he served as director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases. Since the beginning of the pandemic, Fauci has been underestimated for promoting the sometimes contradictory guidelines on mask use and other COVID-related policies that include boost shots and travel precautions.
Speaking to PBS NewsHour on Judy Woodruff on Tuesday night, Fauci said: “Certainly, right now, we are in this country out of the pandemic. That is, we do not have 900,000 new infections a day and tens and tens and tens of thousands of hospitalizations and thousands of deaths. We are at a low level right now. Fauci decided to retire from the White House’s dinner a few days after claiming the United States was “out of the pandemic phase.” “Well, if you say so, maybe we have come out of the pandemic phase in this country,” he added, while still warning that “we are not going to eradicate this virus.” The very next day, however, Fauci made a sharp reversal of his previous comments, which have made headlines around the world. “We are in a different moment of the pandemic,” Fauci told the Associated Press on Wednesday. The US “slowed down and entered a more controlled phase” after a winter rise, he added. “By no means does this mean that the pandemic is over,” Fauci said. He went on to say in a revised interview with CBS News that “we can not say for sure that the pandemic is over. Not finished.” Markary argued that Fauci was “using the wrong data throughout the pandemic.” He also accused the presidential adviser of favoring “political propaganda over rigorous scientific studies”. The US is currently experiencing a mini-outbreak of COVID due to the highly contagious BA 2 subtype of coronavirus. Even with this latest increase, COVID-19 cases are lower than they have been for months and two-thirds of the US population is vaccinated. In Washington earlier this month, dozens of lawmakers, journalists and Biden government officials were attacked by COVID after attending the annual Gridiron dinner, where Fauci was among the guests.