WHO sends 100 oxygen concentrators to Ladakh amid COVID spike US pandemic expert Anthony Fauci is currently under the scanner for his controversial leaked e-mails. Republican lawmakers and prominent conservatives are collectively making efforts to get him fired following the release of an email showing the doctor believed "face masks don't work against COVID-19" when the Coronavirus crisis was in its early stages last year. On February 28, 2020, a woman e-mailed Anthony Fauci with the subject line: "URGENT" when the US government's top scientist was already under tremendous pressure due to the health threat in the country and political pressure by the Trump administration.