Dr Fauci Doesn't 'Have a Clue’ What DeSantis Is Investigating

BOLDUAN: “Yeah. And really no other virus in recent history has become so politicized as — as Covid-19. I mean, you’ve found yourself — we’ve talked about this many times — at the center of some of that angry debate. Elon Musk just came at you and attacked you. But the latest now Dr. Fauci is Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. He’s now asking the Florida Supreme Court to green light an investigation into — and the way he put it is any — any and all wrongdoing in Florida with respect to Covid-19 vaccines? What’s your reaction to that?”

FAUCI: “I don’t have a clue, Kate what he’s asking for. I mean, we have a vaccine that unequivocally is highly effective and safe, and has saved literally millions of lives. The Commonwealth Fund has come out with a report just this past week, that vaccinations that have been administered over this period of time, this last year and a half to two years, has saved 3.2 million lives, 18 million hospitalizations, and approximately $1 trillion in costs. So what’s the problem with vaccines? I mean, vaccines are lifesaving. So quite frankly, Kate, I’m not sure what — what they’re trying to do down there.”

BOLDUAN: “It kind of gets at a bigger issue I’ve been wanting to ask you as — in one of our final interviews, in — in your role in public health is just the one result of the pandemic has sadly been that science has become a divisive topic, politicized and weaponized by some people. Have you thought about how do you pull that back? How do you turn that around?”

FAUCI: “You know, Kate, if I had an easy answer, I — I — I’d give it to you, but it’s a very difficult situation. You’re absolutely correct. It has been politicized. And it has been politicized in a way that has actually cost lives. Because if people don’t get vaccinated, which unequivocally is lifesaving, because of political ideology, or because of misinformation and disinformation, that costs us lives. And we just got to get the American public regardless of whether you lean left you lean right, it doesn’t matter at all. We’re all in this together. We’re all human beings. And we’re all susceptible to disease that can kill us. So if ever there was a time in society when we need to pull together and recognize that the common enemy is the virus, not each other, we’ve got to get people to appreciate that. You know, I said, I don’t have an easy answer how we’re going to do that, but when people’s lives are being lost about this, maybe that’ll shake people up enough to realize that we’ve got to start pulling together and not against each other.”