I’m not a Fauci hater but I think this critique of Fauci from epidemiologist and oncologist Vinay Prasad hits hard:
Lockdown was specifically promoted by Anthony Fauci (’15 days to stop the spread’/ ‘hunker down’/ ‘shelter in place’), and Fauci would go on to make hundreds of other policy recommendations. Although he rejected it at first, in April 2020, he recommended the covering of public cloth to reduce the coronavirus (an intervention that now has random data showing that it does not work).
Fauci opposed Ron DeSantis in several TV interviews in the spring of 2020 when DeSantis reopened schools. He called the reopening of schools reckless—even though it was widely accepted in western Europe at the time, and is now clearly the right policy decision.
Fauci supported vaccination orders and border closures. He repeated the false statement that the 6ft reduction of society has a solid foundation. Many in the media and medicine think it’s wrong to criticize him—he did the best he could with what he knew at the time—but it’s fair to criticize a scientist who presented his ideas as facts where they were assumed. And, in addition, there is one criticism that no one can deny:
Even though he was director of NIAID, and even though he controlled the $5 billion infectious disease research budget, he chose to launch, fund and conduct ZERO randomized non-pharmacologic interventions.
Hat tip: MD.
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