Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during a White House press conference in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on January 21, 2021 in Washington, DC.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci hit critics Wednesday for his dismissal, blew up their “ridiculous” and “painfully ludicrous” attacks and defended his record as the leading official in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
“Attacks on me are, frankly, attacks on science,” Fauci said in an interview with MSNBC’s Chuck Todd.
Fauci, the White House’s senior medical adviser, took a beating while directly refuting critics who attacked his earlier remarks about the origins of the virus and the wearing of masks to prevent transmission, as well as a number of conspiracy theories.
“If you go through each and every one of them you can explain and debunk it right away,” said Fauci. “I mean every single one.”
Fauci told Todd that his views on the origins of the coronavirus have not changed, although laboratory leak pandemic theory has become more mainstream recently.
To say that a scenario of natural origin is more likely “doesn’t mean there is an obstruction to being a leak,” said Fauci, “although many people, myself included, believe that the most likely origin is still natural Origin is. “
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