Fauci’s response: “ You know it very likely did. You know I don’t want that ... to be a sound bite, but I think if you just look at that, you can see that when you’re starting to go down paths that are not based on any science at all, that is not helpful at all, and particularly when you’re in a situation of almost being in a crisis with the number of cases and hospitalizations and deaths that we have." He also added: “When you start talking about things that make no sense medically and no sense scientifically, that clearly is not helpful.”