Fauci Now Says Pandemic is Not Over

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during a Senate committee hearing on the COVID-19 response, on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 18, 2021. Anna Moneymaker/Pool/Getty Images

Dr. Anthony Fauci on April 27 sought to clarify remarks he made a day prior about the state of the COVID-19 situation in the United States.

Fauci, President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser and the longtime head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said on PBS on Tuesday that “we are certainly right now in this country out of the pandemic phase.”