Dr. Anthony Fauci again got a little back and forth with a Fox News anchor on Tuesday, this time against Sandra Smith’s complaint that the “goalposts keep moving” with mask use.
During a performance on Fox News’ America’s Newsroom On Monday, Fauci – who now serves as President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser – shot down Bill Hemmer’s attempt to hold the interview about President Donald Trump, noting that Hemmer’s colleague Dana Perino had just said she “ behind us’ and move forward.
Just a day later, Fauci appeared on Fox again, this time for an extensive interview with Smith and co-anchor John Roberts. The interview was, for the most part, fairly collegial, as the two anchors focused their questions on the Biden government’s coronavirus policies and plans for vaccine distribution.
However, towards the end of the conversation, things got a bit irritable when Smith discussed Fauci’s recent comments that double masking is “ common sense ” and is very likely more effective at protecting against viral spread than wearing a single mask.
“So if you have physical coverage with one layer, you put another layer on it, it just makes sense that it would probably be more effective. That’s why you see people double masking or doing a version of an N95, ”Fauci said last week.
“Dr. Fauci, it looks like the goalposts keep moving,” Smith said, pointing out that California is facing additional problems as new strains of coronavirus emerge.
“We all try to do whatever it takes to stay safe. We all wear our masks and hope most people are. Now we hear we have to wear two, “she continued before snarling,” When I go to the supermarket, will I wear two, will I wear three? Is it safer to wear eight? Where does it end ?! “
Fauci, meanwhile, replied that the “discussion is changing, not the goalposts,” adding that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are officially not recommending anyone to wear double masks.
What they say is, ‘You know what would be a good start? When everyone is wearing at least one mask, ” he further explained. ‘I think that would be important. So the CDC recommendations haven’t changed. What we’re trying to do is get people who don’t wear masks to wear masks. “