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FAUCI scolds Rand Paul during tense exchange at hearing: "You've misconstrued that, senator"
The Hill ^ | 09/23/20 12:35 PM EDT | BY NATHANIEL WEIXEL

Posted on 09/23/2020 9:39:58 AM PDT by RandFan

A seemingly irritated Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, scolded Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) at a congressional hearing on Wednesday after the senator claimed that COVID-19 cases might not be rising in New York because of herd immunity.

Fauci, the country's top infectious disease doctor, told Paul he was wrong to make the suggestion, and he said Paul had also been wrong in other public comments about the concept of herd immunity.

"No, you've misconstrued that, senator, and you've done that repeatedly in the past," Fauci said.

Fauci also appeared to single out Paul for criticism over comments about the coronavirus, which as of this week has killed more than 200,000 people in the United States.

"If you believe 22% is herd immunity, I believe you're alone in that," Fauci told Paul during the hearing, referring to the number of New Yorkers thought to have had COVID-19.

The exchange took place during a Senate Health Committee hearing where Fauci and others are testifying about the pandemic.

Paul, who has frequently criticized lockdowns aimed at preventing the spread of the coronavirus while questioning their effectiveness, asked Fauci if he had second thoughts over his support for such measures given statistics in other countries.

He claimed mitigation measures like closing movie theaters, bars and limiting restaurant capacity had no impact, because the New York Tri-State area had the highest coronavirus death rate in the country.

"It's important that we the people not simply acquiesce to authoritarian mandates on our behavior without first making the Nanny State prove their hypothesis," Paul said. "What we do know is that New York and New Jersey and Connecticut and Rhode Island still allowed the highest death rates in the world."

Fauci said New York got hit "pretty badly" but the state has managed to bring its positivity down to about 1 percent because New Yorkers have been following recommendations like wearing masks, keeping physical distance, and staying outdoors more than indoors.

When Paul floated the theory that New Yorkers have now developed enough immunity that they are no longer at risk, Fauci appeared irritated and said the senator was completely off base.

"I challenge that, senator," Fauci said, before asking for more time to finish his response "because this happens with Senator Rand all the time."

"You are not listening to what the director of the CDC said, that in New York [the infection rate is] about 22 percent. If you believe 22 percent is herd immunity, I believe you're alone in that," Fauci said.


TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: anthonyfauci; coronavirus; fakefauci; fakenews; fauci; rand; randpaul
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1 posted on 09/23/2020 9:39:58 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Since Fauxi likely collaborated with his CCP buds on the development, design and planned release of this crap, he may have some inside knowledge that no one else has.
Send his commie azz to GITMO as domestic enemy terrorist and let’s waterboard the little POS and see.


2 posted on 09/23/2020 9:42:39 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (Libs are a virus.....the DemoVirus!!)
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To: RandFan
Is there an official post called "Top Infectious Disease Doctor"? Has Fauxi been appointed to such a post? No well, then:


3 posted on 09/23/2020 9:43:39 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: RandFan

Actually, he’s not “alone in that”. The health minister in Sweden said that he thought that herd immunity happens between 17 & 20%. Hmmm, co-incidence?


4 posted on 09/23/2020 9:44:03 AM PDT by mistfree (Virginia Freeper)
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To: mistfree

Very interesting I didn’t know that!


5 posted on 09/23/2020 9:44:50 AM PDT by RandFan (3C)
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To: RandFan

Covidism is the new religion of the communist Left.
“The Mask” is their symbol, and Fauxi is their astute supreme high priest. They are the BORG of this century.
He has blood on his hands...BIG TIME.


6 posted on 09/23/2020 9:45:02 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (Libs are a virus.....the DemoVirus!!)
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To: RandFan

Hope Sen. Paul brought up Fauci’s several conflicts of interest.


7 posted on 09/23/2020 9:45:19 AM PDT by ryderann
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To: RandFan

What does Rand know about medicine?

Oh...wait.


8 posted on 09/23/2020 9:45:32 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: RandFan
Lying Deep State scum


9 posted on 09/23/2020 9:46:47 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: RandFan

I think Fauci ought to be asked about Vitamins D3, Zinc, Magnesium, etc


10 posted on 09/23/2020 9:47:36 AM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: Seruzawa
I just find it hard to give any creedence to a Dr who sounds like he just smoked a pack of Camels, but that's just me🤔🙄😖
11 posted on 09/23/2020 9:47:55 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: RandFan
I personally only know two people who got sick with covid over the last six months.
12 posted on 09/23/2020 9:49:42 AM PDT by jetson (chiwowa)
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To: mistfree

Do you have a source for that?


13 posted on 09/23/2020 9:50:06 AM PDT by OIFVeteran
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To: RandFan

It is way past time to shut up Fauci permanently. How much CCP money has gone his way and how much collaboration did he have with the Wuhan lab to enhance the virus capabilities? He needs to outed as the enemy agent that he is and spend his last days listening to the scaffold that is being built just for him.


14 posted on 09/23/2020 9:53:07 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: RandFan

Psst... Hey Fauchmeister...

Rand is a Doctor too. He kinda sorta like... KNOWS a lotta stuff too...

Just sayin’...


15 posted on 09/23/2020 9:54:05 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: RandFan

I heard the contentious exchange. Obviously, Fauci has issues with Dr. Paul. Fauci was over-the-top seething with anger. Perhaps a professional jealousy—or Fauci knows he can’t pull the wool over Paul’s eyes with his pandering platitudes.


16 posted on 09/23/2020 9:55:20 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Put $5000 cash in an envelope. Mail it to yourself. If this makes you queasy, vote at the polls.)
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To: RandFan

Faustus is angry

17 posted on 09/23/2020 9:58:05 AM PDT by Fido969 (In)
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To: jetson

I know many more than that, BUT not one of them had to go to the hospital and several were asymptomatic, which tells me they may have had a false positive.

All of them came up positive in a very short period of time too. It was like a two week span.

Been chill around here for a while now though. Not one kid in the middle or high school is positive.


18 posted on 09/23/2020 9:58:57 AM PDT by Mathews (ItÂ’s all gravy, baby!)
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To: OIFVeteran; mistfree

Sweden documented HIT at either 14% IIRC. It is probably worth noting HIT stands for herd immunity threshold. Essentially the percentage needed to start the virus downhill towards oblivion.


19 posted on 09/23/2020 9:59:18 AM PDT by walkingdead (We are sacrificing America's youth on the altar of our own fear. And it is a travesty.)
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To: NautiNurse

More Republicans should figure this out when dealing with D.C. bureaucrats. They aren’t used to criticism and are notoriously thin-skinned. It’s fairly easy to provoke them to meltdown, and it should be done more often.


20 posted on 09/23/2020 10:00:08 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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