Fauci REFUSES To Take Responsibility for COVID guidelines on school closures and masks

Fauci: “Well, that’s true, Kaitlan. But the point that I made in my response to the Reporter in ‘The New York Times’ article was that what it is that there was a personification of me as a person who essentially closed everything down. Those were public health recommendations that came from the CDC. And I have always been very supportive of the CDC because they base their recommendations purely on public health issues. And the point that I made that, as public health officials, it’s our responsibility to give the public health perspective to it. The decision of how that balances with other considerations really comes from other authorities, some authorities who have things other than just the public health to be concerned about, economic and other considerations. So, that’s the point I was making. I was not trying to shun away from responsibility. We made a public health recommendation based on sound public health principles.

COLLINS: "to hear that they only work at the margins maybe 10 percent would make a lot of people ask, okay, then why was I wearing a mask for so many times?”
Fauci: “You know, Kaitlan, we have got to be careful. Because if you read very carefully what I said, if you look at the broad public health effect when you have masks that are so-called mandated or supposed to be worn, because so many people don’t wear them even though they’re in an arena in which masks are supposed to be worn, well, they don’t wear them properly from a public health standpoint on the cohort of people. The effect can be only marginal. And as we mentioned, it was 10, 13 percent or so. But for the individual who religiously wears a properly fitted mask, the effect is much, much, much better than that.