During his June 3 appearance before Congress, former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director Dr. Anthony Fauci claimed that those unvaccinated against COVID-19 are responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths.
“Do you think the American public should listen to America’s brightest and best doctors and scientists, or instead listen to podcasters conspiracy theorists, and unhinged Facebook memes,” Representative Robert Garcia (D-CA) asked.
Fauci said that listening to such personalities is “going to do nothing but harm people because they will deprive themselves of life-saving interventions, which has happened…”
He referred to a study that “shows that in people who refuse to get vaccinated for any variety of reasons, probably responsible for an additional 200,000 to 300,000 deaths in this country.”
The former NIAID director also stated that he does not believe any vaccine is “100% effective.”
In 2021, Fauci said the COVID-19 vaccine will “protect you completely.”
During another moment in his testimony, Fauci stood by his belief that the various COVID-19 mandates were justified to “stop the tsunami of deaths that were occurring early on.”
Representative Michael Cloud (R-TX) asked the doctor, “Mask mandates for children under 5 – there’s scientific evidence for that?”
“There was no study that did masks on kids,” Fauci admitted.