...American epidemiologist with rotating opinions, warnings about the unlikely, and reassurances that if you wear a mask you won't get COVID, as long as you're wearing multiple masks, assuming wearing a mask is necessary in the first place...was furious after being asked by a conservative radio host if he should resign due to American’s lack of trust in him.
On Wednesday the doctor spoke to conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt who grilled him on stepping aside, Fox News reported.
"I have lost confidence in the CDC and the FDA and I actually believe a lot of Americans, a significant part of America now have lost confidence in you, Dr. Fauci," Hewitt said. "Is there a point where you will say, ’I do more harm than good because people don’t listen to me anymore,’ and step aside?"
Fauci bristled at the question and said he has no intentions of resigning.
"No. Absolutely, unequivocally no, Hugh. Sorry," he said. "When you have an evolving situation and data are rapidly evolving in something that is unprecedented and unknown, you have to evolve with it and look at the data as it exists now and make to the best of your ability a decision, a recommendation, all the kinds of things that go into the evolution."
Hewitt said he gets why Fauci "lied" about masks, but he said it was "bad policy."
"It’s just a fact that Tony Fauci, not the guy I’m talking with but Tony Fauci- the person in people’s minds, is now an impediment to public health because people won’t listen to you," the host said. "They actively reject what Tony Fauci says for reasons which are complicated... but can you accept that if that’s just the fact, you ought to respond to it and say ’Mr. President, I think my time is up as a successful and effective spokesperson?’"