People who refused COVID vaccine "probably responsible for additional 200-300K deaths in US": Fauci

February 1st 2020 uh you yourself Dr foui the NIH director Collins and at least 11 other scientists were on a conference call to discuss the origins of covid a number of the scientists said that they were concerned that covid was the result of a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of rology and we're and we're concerned that a revelation of the lab leak Theory would hurt the relationship with China the CDC director Redfield testified that he was not invited on this conference call and he believes because he believed the lab leak theory was possible three days later on February 4th 2020 four participants on the conference call authored a paper proximal origin which was sent to you for editing proximal origin pushed the natural origin theory on April 16th 2020 the NIH director Dr Collins emailed you expressing dismay that the nature medicine article which was based on proximal origin didn't suppress the lab leak Theory and asked you for more public pressure to suppress the lab leak Theory the very next day in response to Dr Collins's request to suppress the lab leak Theory you cited the nature medicine article which discounted the lab leak Theory from the White House Podium my question to you sir did you cite this article at the white house because the NIH Direct director asked you to suppress the lab leak Theory I did not do that in response to anybody's suggestion to suppress anything it was in response to a question that someone asked at the podium and I did not edit any paper as shown in my uh official testimony so you said about four or five things Congressman that were just not true well we have email prove it who you don't thank you and I yield back I now recognize Mr INF fum from Maryland for five minutes of questions thank you very much Mr chairman and by the way no we don't have it so I get tired of hearing we've got it and then when we ask for it it's not there we do not have it Dr fouchy and for everyone watching this this was a time in history where you got to throw out the first pitch at the Washington Nationals baseball game while Americans were forced to stay home and watch such events that they love from at home alone on their televisions and what a hypocrisy this picture shows here you are without your mask with empty seats everywhere remember the cardboard cutout fans that was one of the most insulting things to Americans having to watch the games from home where you got to go and enjoy the game and sit right next to people not not following the six feet of distancing not wearing your mask and everyone else was forced to stay home and stop enjoying life and your science here your science just displayed perfectly in this picture we're children children in school were put in plastic bubbles because of your science your repulsive evil science oh thank you you're not allowed to speak you thank you Mr chairman could you have a removed from the thank have removed excuse me I ask the capital police to escort yep thank you she can be removed yeah you can be removed actually not allowed to speak take your Starbucks with you Mr Garcia Mr Raskin you're out of line your times have expired even before this committee started this same member that just went on this rant introduced the fire fouchy act and promoted on a podcast seeing that Co was a bioweapon that is how insane some of these comments are and I want to quote this this is a quote from the same member I don't believe in evolution these viruses were not making people sick until they created them they weaponized these viruses to be able to attach to ourselves and make us sick it's a bioweapon the they created them sir is you they're they are attacking you and our medical community for actually creating Co that has caused the deaths of of millions and we know that these extreme comments are targeting Public Health officials across the country I also want to show you this other comment same member who just attacked you the fouchy funded Wuhan lab created the virus this is so crazy and irresponsible in this post the same member of this committee is accusing you of orchestrating a global conspiracy to create covid on purpose just to make people get vaccines that you that you've done this sir the same member routinely promotes complete misinformation about vaccines and actually has encouraged the routine prevention of vaccinations that even eliminate diseases like the measles Dr Fai you've brought together our nation and world's best and brightest scientist take on covid and creative vaccine that works I want to ask you a question I want to be crystal clear for the public you brought together the world and America's best scientists do you believe that the vaccine that you all help create and ensure is safe and effective for the public yes and its track record has proven that and do you also agree that it saved hundreds of thousands and possibly millions of lives in America and across the world that is absolutely correct and it's very clear that it's saved millions of lives here and throughout the world the Europeans have done the same studies that we have and the and the the data are incontrovertible that they save lives sir and do you think the American public should listen to America's brightest and best doctors and scientists or instead listen to podcasters conspiracy theorists and unhinged Facebook memes now I listening to people who you just described is going to do nothing but harm people because they will deprive themselves of life-saving interventions which has happened and you know some have done studies Peter hotz has done an analysis of this and shows that in people who refuse to get vaccinated for any a variety of reasons probably responsible for an additional two to 300,000 deaths in this country thank you sir and your entire team for saving lives in this country and I'm sorry you have to continue going on with these attacks what I believe the CDC used for their reason to say six feet is that studies years ago showed that when you're dealing with droplets which at the time that the CDC made that recommendation it was felt that the transmission was primarily through droplet not aerosol which is incorrect because we know now aerosol does play a role that's the reason why they did it it had little to do with me since I didn't make the recommendation and my saying there was no science behind it means there was no clinical trial that proved that that's just one of the things that got a little distorted in the response to that