The Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in China s central Hubei province. Credit: Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images.
On Thursday, President Joe Biden told the country that fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear masks indoors or outdoors, calling it a “great day.” The federal government’s new policy, along with falling case counts and increasing vaccination numbers, was another sign that the crisis phase of the pandemic in the United States at least was drawing to a close. On the same day that Biden looked toward the pandemic’s end, a group of 18 prominent scientists looked, figuratively, in the opposite direction, toward how it all began. In a letter in
Dr. Anthony Fauci: ‘Undeniable Effects of Racism’ Contributed To Worsening of Pandemic Among Minorities
Speaking to Emory University’s graduates, the nation’s lead immunologist, tasked them with making a difference.
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Written by Madison J. Gray
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the primary U.S. health official in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic said that the “undeniable effects of racism” have resulted in health disparities that have harmed people of color in America as COVID-19 worsened.
“COVID-19 has shone a bright light on our own society’s failings,” Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in a virtual address at Atlanta’s Emory University’s graduation ceremonies on Sunday (May 16).
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Saturday Night Live Spoofed America’s ‘Mask Confusion’ in its Dr. Fauci Cold Open
Kate McKinnon channeled Anthony Fauci in an attempt to answer people s questions about those new CDC rules. May 16, 2021
When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a new statement this week decreeing that people who are fully vaccinated are no longer required to wear masks, it led to some confusion over whether this was a broad rule of thumb, or a guideline that would alter depending on context.
The opening sketch of
Saturday Night Live this week attempted to provide answers to people s questions. and failed miserably. In the cold open, cast member Kate McKinnon broaches the subject in character as chief presidential medical advisor, Director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and patron saint of Purell himself, Dr. Anthony Fauci.