Fauci Touts Face Masks While Admitting to Ineffectiveness

Dr. Fauci is promoting the use of face masks once again as media hypes up the reemergence of COVID cases while promoting restrictions.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden and the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, prepares to testify before a Senate panel in Washington on Jan. 11, 2022. Greg Nash/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

Dr. Anthony Fauci said that face masks may not be effective on populations when looking at the “pandemic as a whole” but persists in his stance that people need to follow authorities’ recommendations and wear them.

In an interview with CNN on Saturday, Dr. Fauci was asked about a review published in late January at the Cochrane Library, which said there was no evidence to prove the spread of COVID-19 infection could be reduced by the use of face masks. Dr. Fauci admitted that “when you’re talking about the effect on the epidemic or the pandemic as a whole, the data are less strong.”