Leading infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci this week walked back his comments that the U.S. is “out of the pandemic phase.”
“I want to clarify one thing,” Fauci told NPR on Wednesday. “I probably should have said the acute component of the pandemic phase, and I understand how that can lead to some misinterpretation.”
On Tuesday, Fauci told PBS NewsHour that “we are certainly, right now, in this country, out of the pandemic phase.”
“Namely, we don’t have 900,000 new infections a day and tens and tens and tens of thousands of hospitalizations and thousands of deaths. We are at a low level right now. So, if you’re saying, are we out of the pandemic phase in this country? We are,” he said.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki also attempted to clarify Fauci’s comments on Wednesday.
“What Dr. Fauci was saying is that we are in a different phase of this pandemic, and that’s absolutely true,” Psaki said. She added that “we also know COVID isn’t over and the pandemic isn’t over.”
The comments come as the Biden administration grapples with increasing coronavirus cases and hospitalizations during a time when many Americans are unwilling to reimplement mitigation measures like mask-wearing.
Fauci has been a lightning rod for criticism from Republicans and others who have opposed masking and vaccine mandates and questioned changing coronavirus guidance.
Please include quotation marks around the word “expert” when using it to describe Fauci.
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