Fauci Says He Favors Requiring ‘Everybody’ to Wear a Mask Amid Pandemic

Dr. Anthony Fauci is in favor of all Americans wearing a mask, he said when asked about a mask mandate.

Actor 🎬Matthew McConaughey sat down for a conversation with Fauci, where he asked Fauci about the respiratory virus and masks, “Why not make a mask mandate across the United States and fine people for not wearing masks?”

In response, Fauci said on Thursday evening, “My recommendation as you probably know because I’ve said it publicly so many times is that absolutely we should have universal wearing of masks.”

The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases went on to explain the “difficulty” of implementing a federal mask mandate:

“The difficulty with mandates is that it tends to be a pushback about, do you have to waste time enforcing it, or can you really use the power of persuasion from the leadership, everybody doing it, because it’s so important? And there’s a debate whether you get any extra mileage out of mandating it. For myself, personally, I would say everybody should have to use it.”

Watch Fauci’s interview below:

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CD2WoXupHV-/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading

Fauci’s — a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force — remarks come as presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Bidencalled for a “a mask mandate nationwide, starting immediately” during a press conference on Thursday in Delaware.