Sen. Marco Rubio says Fauci lied about face masks

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:

• Senator Marco Rubio finds faults against Dr. Anthony Fauci, saying the expert downplayed the importance of wearing face masks and distorted the truth about herd immunity.
• Fauci and CDC, in March, indeed advised against the use of face protection but revised the directive in April upon learning more about the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Rubio and some lawmakers received their first shot of COVID-19 ahead of healthcare workers and the most vulnerable people in the country.

On Sunday, Senator Marco Rubio posted on Twitter his complaints with Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s top infectious disease expert.

The Republican from Florida criticized the White House coronavirus taskforce official saying he did not tell the whole truth about using face masks and downplayed the importance of having a vaccination, claiming these are part of a bigger scheme of a select few trying to mislead Americans.

Rubio’s claim, at least some of them, was either erroneous or distorted. His Twitter post was also followed by an immediate reaction from users across the platform, akin to the responses made when Rubio and some Republicans were criticized for having shots earlier than the front line and health workers, and elderly, even though they downplayed the outbreak a few months this year.

The criticism came only eight days after Rubio promoted the COVID-19 when he got his first COVID-19 vaccine dose.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),  many public health officials, and Fauci did recommend that Americans do not necessarily need to wear a mask in March when the outbreak was just starting. CDC, however, changed its advisory by April and urged the public to wear face protections as more information came in about the highly infectious disease.

In a current interview with New York Times, Fauci suggested the change then was in accordance to the public survey that more people showed more interest in getting the vaccine, followed by an inclination for Americans to know about his latest valuation, and the detection of more contagious strains.

In his interviews with both Times and CNN on Sunday, the NIH official explained that his new proposal for a vaccination rate of 85 percent for herd immunity was founded on previous measles epidemics, adding that most public health experts agree with him.

Democrats and other and popular Twitter users mocked Rubio for his comments against Fauci,  with Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., in his post, suggesting Rubio should stay away from President Trump so he can think clearer.

Source: Newsweek