![]() “So of course, if we knew back then that a substantial amount of transmission was asymptomatic people. If March, April, May occur, you accumulate a lot more information and you modify and adjust your opinion and your recommendation based on the current science and current data,” Fauci told Berman. “Let’s get real here – if you look at scientific information as it accumulates, what is going on in January and February, what you know as a fact, as data, guides what you tell people and your policies. If you had to go back and do it all over again, would you tell her something different? Do you regret that?” Berman asked Fauci. The email was sent at a time before coronavirus was declared a pandemic and before the CDC advised the public to wear masks for protection. What Fauci's emails reveal - and what they don'tīerman also brought up a February 5, 2020, email Fauci sent to Sylvia Burwell, former secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, in which he did not recommend wearing a mask since she was traveling to a low-risk location. (Photo by Greg Nash/Pool/AFP/Getty Images) Greg Nash/Pool/AFP/Getty Images Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing to discuss the on-going federal response to Covid-19 on at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. “I don’t remember what’s in that redacted, but the idea I think is quite farfetched that the Chinese deliberately engineered something so that they could kill themselves as well as other people. ![]() “They only took about 10,000 emails from me, of course I remember. But much of the email is redacted, and Fauci said he did not remember its substance. In another email sent to Fauci on April 16, NIH director Francis Collins wrote “conspiracy theory gains momentum,” a reference to the lab-leak hypothesis. I still do think it is, at the same time as I’m keeping an open mind that it might be a lab leak.” “You can misconstrue it however you want – that email was from a person to me saying ‘thank you’ for whatever it is he thought I said, and I said that I think the most likely origin is a jumping of species. And that’s the reason why I have been public that we should continue to look for the origin. “I believe if you look historically, what happens in the animal-human interface, that in fact the more likelihood is that you’re dealing with a jump of species. “I have always said, and will say today to you, John, that I still believe the most likely origin is from an animal species to a human, but I keep an absolutely open mind that if there may be other origins of that, there may be another reason, it could have been a lab leak,” Fauci told Berman. “I don’t even see how they get that from that email.”įauci then emphasized that the email was sent to him, and he noted the origins of the coronavirus are still uncertain. Thousands of emails from and to Fauci during the pandemic's early days were published. (Photo by Al Drago - Pool/Getty Images) Al Drago/Pool/Getty Images Top federal health officials are expected to discuss efforts to get back to work and school during the coronavirus pandemic. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, wears a Washington Nationals protective mask while arriving to a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on Jin Washington, DC. “There are some of your critics who say this shows you have too cozy of a relationship with the people behind the Wuhan lab research,” CNN’s John Berman said to Fauci on New Day. (The origins of the virus remain unclear.) In one email sent to Fauci last April, an executive at EcoHealth Alliance, the global nonprofit that helped fund some research at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, thanked Fauci for publicly stating that scientific evidence supports a natural origin for the coronavirus and not a lab release. Anthony Fauci said that an email he received last year from an executive at the US-based EcoHealth Alliance has been misconstrued and offered a hint of regret about a February 2020 email downplaying the need to wear a mask.Įarlier this week, news outlets including CNN, BuzzFeed News and The Washington Post obtained thousands of emails Fauci sent and received since the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases became a household name early last year. In an interview with CNN on Thursday, Dr.
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