Rand Paul Responds to His Heated Exchange With Dr. Fauci During Hearing
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is suggesting that health experts’ advice should be taken “with a grain of salt.” During a Senate committee hearing on Tuesday, the senator got into a heated exchange with Dr. Anthony Fauci . Paul…
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is suggesting that health experts’ advice should be taken “with a grain of salt.”
During a Senate committee hearing on Tuesday, the senator got into a heated exchange with Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Paul said to Fauci regarding top health experts’ predictions amid conversation on sending children back to school and reopening the economy, “I think we ought to have a little bit of humility in our belief that we know what’s best for the economy.”
The senator was arguing that he believes the reopening should be done school district by school district.
“And as much as I respect you, Dr. Fauci, I don’t think you’re the end-all,” Paul added. “I don’t think you’re the one person that gets to make a decision.”
Fauci responded, “I’ve never made myself out to be the end-all and only voice in this. I’m a scientist, a physician and a public health official. I give advice, according to the best scientific evidence. … I don’t give advice about economic things.”
Fauci later added, “We don’t know everything about this virus, and we’ve really better be very careful, particularly when it comes to children.”
Fauci continued:
“I think we better be careful, if we are not cavalier, in thinking that children are completely immune to the deleterious effects. You’re right in the numbers that children in general do much, much better than adults and the elderly and particularly those with underlying conditions. But I am very careful, and hopefully humble in knowing that I don’t know everything about this disease. And that’s why I’m very reserved in making broad predictions.”