Fauci Addresses ‘The Pandemic Is Over’
President Biden’s controversial remarks, Fauci says, are a matter of “semantics.”
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Several days after President Joe Biden declared that “the pandemic is over,” Anthony Fauci weighed in on the president’s controversial remarks during an interview at The Atlantic Festival, an annual live event in Washington, D.C.
“He was saying we’re in a much better place with regard to the fulminant stage of the pandemic,” Fauci, the president’s chief medical adviser, said. “It really becomes semantics and about how you want to spin it.”
By “the fulminant stage,” he meant
