Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden and Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), brushed off recent criticism from Elon Musk Monday, describing the Twitter CEO’s barbs as a mere “distraction.”
“I don’t respond to him,” Fauci told CNN’s David Axelrod for an upcoming podcast. “I don’t pay any attention to him because that’s merely a distraction. And if you get drawn into that—and I have to be honest—that cesspool of interaction, it’s … There’s no value added to that, David. It doesn’t help anything.”
