fauci a: -- dr.ci: well, there are certain things we want to continue to do and certain things we want to improve, steve. the shining light of all this was the fruits of the science, the fact that given the brand-new platform technology for a vaccines, the ability to utilize infrastructure of clinical trial networks that were set up decades ago for hiv , you might recall we put so much investment years ago into the fundamental, basic science that made vaccines successful. so in the future, if we continue the support of basic biomedical research, we will have the most up-to-date scientific advances on our side, and that is important. the thing we need to do much better on his public health preparedness, namely building public health at the local level infrastructure. so that when you talk about identificatgion -- identification, isolation, contact tracing, it can be done in a more effective way. the other thing to recognizes the importance of messaging, the importance of things centrally involved. one

fauci recommended mask? dr. fauci: no, there is not. david: going forward let's talk about a typical day in you and i mentioned that you had seen patients today so why are you still seeing patients when you are solving and how do time for patients? you know, as i mentioned to you many times before my day over the past year now i was a i'm not taken a day off since last january and that is not hyperbole but just the case but monday is packed and we go to work at 6:30 and i'm there until later and then i come home so today for example let me ask you a specific question. i see patients david because my identity and my primary identity is as a physician and that really and informs and influences everything they do in their public health work and my basic scientific work the kinds of things i do in response of the public health person to an outbreak whether that is hiv aids or ebola or leica or in this case covid-19 and everything revolves back to my identity as a physician. i don't ever want to lose that strong identity so that is the reaso

fauci. we know there already any things going on. so please be on guard. because our folks out there that will attempt to use this moment for their personal gain. so let's jump in and have a great conversation. if you are ready, let's go. i had the distinct honor of introducing our next speaker. governor ralph reed particulate difficult moment in our history, the governor brings his experience as a doctor, a business owner, state senator and former lt. governor for short time in the commonwealth. my dad we are the only state to enjoy the leadership of doctor . brings public health crisis in the governor's office. the 73rd governor of virginia as a heart for all people. and especially historically marginalized and unrepresentative. notices love for all people in virginia in particular has guided every decision he makes and please welcome the 73rd governor, governor ralph. >> will good afternoon and thank you so much doctor underwood for that kind introduction. i hope all of you are safe and h

fauci.nstitute funded that first ferret study. at the time he cowrote an op-ed in the washington post describing the research as a risk worth taking. important information and insight can come from generating a potentially dangerous virus. shortly before the obama administration's ban on gain of function research in 2014 dr. fauci commission this. it was a project to assess the risk of new coronavirus emerging from wild animals like bats. one of the aims was to see what viruses can infect animals and humans. pay close attention to these words at the end of the project summary. predictive models of host range i.e. emergence potential will be tested experimentally using reverse genetics, pseudo- virus and receptive and virus infection from different species and humanized mice. that is a description of viral gain of function research. that type of research that the obama administration stopped. but found she did not stop it, he continued on by contracting into this group eco- health alliance ba

fauci. dr. fauci: thank you very much. i'm just going to spend a couple of minutes just summarizing the status of where we are and then maybe addressing some of the things that i know are on people's minds. first of all, obviously we are still in a very serious situation. i mean, to have over 400,000 deaths is something that, you know, is unfortunately historic in the very bad sense. when you look at the number of new infections that we have, it's still at a very, very high rate. hospitalizations are up there. certain areas of the country, as i think you're all familiar with, which are really stressed from the standpoint of beds and the standpoint of the stress on the health care system. however, when you look more recently at the seven-day average of cases, remember, we were going between 300,000 and 400,000 and 200,000 and 300,000. right now it looks like it might actually be plateauing in the sense of turning around. now, there's good news in that, but you have to be careful that we may not be seeing perhaps an artifact

fauci. dr. fauci: as alluded to this past week and the past 24 hours, have been interesting and value added to the issue of vaccine protection in the government attempt to contain this outbreak. in previous briefings, i had mentioned the federal government had been involved in the development and/or facilitation of three separate platforms of vaccines, one the mrna, the other vector, either adeno vector are chipped vector and the other the soluble recumbent -- chimp vector and the other soluble recombinant proteins. moderna and pfizer mrna showing 94%-90 5% efficacy at a very good efficacy against advance or severe disease. over the last 24 hours or having announcements of two other trials that represent two additional platforms. one is the soluble protein platform in a study that came out of the u.k. using from the company novavax and the other we discussed this morning, at a press conference at the nih was the johnson and johnson adeno 26 trial that took place in the united states, in sout

fauci. welcome to "america reports." glad to have you here. >> thanks for having me. >> sandra: first off, the new strain, we're talking to the audience about it. how deadly is it? are we able to detect it and is it growing in numbers? >> which one are you talking about? i just sat down. are you talking about the south african one? >> sandra: that's the problem. which one. let start with the u.k., and then south africa. what do we need to be worried about as americans? what is here now? >> we need to take it seriously. the u.k. strain, which is one with a certain set of mutations is already in 25 or more states in the united states. it has been shown according to the work that we're doing by our colleagues in the u.k. to be more transmissable, more easy to transmit. they said it was not more lethal namely it didn't cause on a person-to-person basis more serious disease. but they came out with new data that indicates the u.k. strain might in fact be a bit more deadly than what we call the wil

fauci. dr. fauci. >> thank you very much, dr. wallenski. well as alluded to by andy slavic, this past week and particularly the past 24 hours have been really interesting and i think value added to the issue of vaccine protection in the government attempt to contain this outbreak. in previous briefings, i had mentioned that the federal government had been involved in the development and/or facilitation of three separate platforms of vaccines. one was the mrna, the other were vector, either an add no vector or the other was the sol you'llable recumbent proteins. we know of the recent data that came with regard to moderna and pfizer with their mrna showing a 94% to 95% efficacy and a very, very good efficacy against advanced or severe disease. over the last 24 hours there have been the announcements of two other trials that represent two additional platforms. one is the soluble protein platform in a study that came out of the u.k. using from the company novavax and the other one that we discus

doctor fauci, thank you. for making the time to join us today and welcome to the commonwealth of virginia, and thanks again to vcu and our health equity working group for making this event possible. happy new year exhalation.and stay safe and healthy. >> thank you governor so much for your remarks. and we will now transition to hear from our next speaker president val will he be introducing doctor nguyen. are you there? >> yes i'm here. >> excellent. >> okay. governor northam thank you very much for all of those kind words. and thank you for your continued partnership with all of us. i'm also pleased to join in here and in welcome doctor fauci. he is the doctor of allergy and infectious disease but he's become an icon of our allergy and infectious disease. what an incredible experienced and calming voice and we really appreciate your calming voice and for providing so much leadership at some is factual and very helpful information through the hiv aids crisis. a lot of people don't remember that but it's an im

fauci. there was nothing that felt she said that was ignored by trump. trump was ahead of fauci when it came to the travel ban of china. he was on board with the shut down moment it happened, willing to sacrifice his entire successful and effective achievements with an economy with this shutdown. if you listen to the press, he would've thought trump wouldn't have done that. i want to point out that presser, every question is about trump. for the media, trump's like a old flame who burned you bad, so much so that you just can't let him go. i bet $100, jesse, people in the white house press briefing room will be drunk dialing trump late at night just to hear his voice. [laughter] we've all been there. >> jesse: he might pick up the phone. [laughter] personally, the way i feel, if you work for an organization, whether it is an administration or company, and you are expected to present a united front -- fauci did not do that. he has never known that. i agree with greg. he seems very political. h

anthony fauci right after this. stay with us. y fauci right afts stay with us. hnology makes it brilliant. the visionary lexus nx, lease the 2021 nx 300 for $359 a month for 36 months. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. stay restless with the icon that does the same. the rx crafted by lexus. get 0.9% financing on the 2021 rx 350. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. >>> so now you having this shot, like a weight off your shoulder? peace of mind? >> yes, it does. gives me a lot of peace of mind. i believe in science, and i don't think dr. fauci would be on tv every day telling people to take the vaccine if it wasn't good for them. because that's how much respect i have for him. >> maureen weill getting her vaccine dose in new orleans, louisiana. telling us that she got it in part because she has faith in science and knows that dr. fauci wouldn't tell you to get the vaccine unless it was time to gets the vaccine. back now with dr. anthony fauci more than 30 years, infection disease doctor, at the nih. you know how much am

fauci on this national strategy plan. >> i know tony fauci very well and i think his words were wellhosen. this is liberating. it is so heartening to hear that we are rejoining the community of nations are rejoining the world health organization. now we will lead with science. now there is a federal plan, not just a free-for-all at the state and local government with planning and coordination. so i feel like we are in a position now where the grown-ups are back in the room. we've got a strategy and we are going to follow it. it will be a long time, but i do believe we will get to the end. >> one of the things that biden has promised is 100 vaccination -- and 100 days. do you think that is overly optimistic or not ambitious enough? those who say it is too optimistic point to the fact there is a lack of manufacturing capacity, and there are huge logistical challenges that the u.s. has been going through. reporter: it's interesting, i just tweeted about this. my view is that it is not bold enough. i think we can do a lot better. just to give you an example, we already on some days, like

anthony fauci. for viewers who are just tuning in right now, update our viewers on the major developments. >> look, i think if you look or watch over the course of the last 58 minutes, what was a very wide-ranging briefing from jen psaki and in the beginning from dr. anthony fauci, one thing kept coming back to the center. that was the administration's fox on trying to fight and curb the fan demmic. the president himself saying earlier today the administration was taking this as a wartime footing as it attempted to address what it believed were several shortfalls and how the predecessors addressed the pandemic. what you've seen over the course of the last two days including with ten executive actions today is administration that's pushing a whole-of-government approach. a series of federal actions to try and expand the federal government's role in trying to address the pandemic that the president and his top advisers acknowledge is going to get worse before it gets better. among the issues that were

best interview of anthony fauci yet.with him tonight with you than in any interview he has done, including the interview he did with me while donald trump was still president. and to have the liberated anthony fauci finally being allowed to speak with rachel maddow was just riveting television. thank you very much for that. i felt sorry for you at the same time because i knew this massive story was breaking from "the new york times" and you were going to have to deal with it. >> yes.

and finally, i am honored to welcome doctor anthony fauci to the conference. as you know, he's one of the most trusted and leading the scientists and medical figures in the world, in the entire globe. since 84 he served as the director of the institute of allergy and infectious diseases and his achievements and honors our extensive. he is a national treasure, and we applaud his leadership over the past four decades and certainly the past year. it's good to see you and it's good to see you smiling yesterday back at it again. thank you. today's guests are all visionary public servants and they each bring compassion to the work they do each and every day to save lives. i look forward to the remarks throughout today's conversation as we begin to chart a new course to defeat this virus and build a more equitable nation as well. last, we will have time for the mayors to ask questions, pressing questions to these great experts on board so please, get them in the q and a box at the bottom of the screen throughout the discussion and i will try to ask as many as we can

fauci. dr. fauci? >> thank you very much, dr. walensky. as alluded to by andy slavitt, this past week and particularly the past 24 hours have been really interesting. i think value added to the issue of vaccine protection in the government attempt to contain this outbreak. in previous briefings, i had mentioned that the federal government had been involved in the development and/or facilitation of three separate platforms of vaccines. one was the mrna. other were vector and the other was the soluble proteins. we know now of the recent data that came with regard to moderna and pfizer with their mrna showing a 94% to 95% efficacy. a very, very good efficacy against advanced or severe disease. over the last 24 hours, there have been the announcements of two other trials that represent two additional platforms. one is the soluble protein platform in a study that came out of the uk using, from the company novavax and the other one that we discussed this morning at a press conference at the nih wa

i want to talk about fauci. the united states was telling americans, he should have resigned, instead of staying there and stabbing the guy in the back the second day he's down in florida. i want to like fauci as a scientist, but he's making it hard for me to listen to him. i want my scientist to be talking about science. every time he opens his mouth, i hear politics. he's throwing out the first pitch, sitting her magazine covers with his legs crossed sitting by a magazine covers with his legs crossed. he was in this administration and told us the president took early and aggressive action that saved lives with the travel ban, and the day he went into the oval and said to shut down the economy, trump shut it down. when he wanted to reopen it, found she was on board. the only thing fauci can do to get back into my good graces is demand that governor cuomo open inside dining. only that can make me feel better about fauci. [laughter] >> sandra: dagen, it is hard looking at these people who are outside eating dinne

fauci told us right here on "new day," he is confident that the biden administration can vaccinate 100 million americans in the next hundred days. he wants to do even better than that. he thinks we can and will do even better than that. but at the same time, dr. fauci admits, he needs to find answers about the disappointing rollout of the vaccine. he says he doesn't quite understand yet why these vaccines that have been shipped haven't all been administered. he's trying still to figure that out. in the meantime, he made some news about these variants that are spreading across the world. >> we are seeing a plateau in the number of cases. as we do that, that doesn't mean that all of a sudden everything is going to even off. we're still going to have a lot of hospitalizations, even though they tend to be plateauing and coming down. and we'll still have a lot of deaths. what we're hoping is that as we come to the end of january, we'll start to see that plateau and things will go down. but as dr

fauci at the white house press briefing. he spoke very candidly about the differences between working -- his word liberating. what did you make of that very blunt statement? >> it was liberating to hear him be so candid. how many times we've interviewed dr. fauci or others as well where you ask a question and he actually said past tense of course now when he was under president trump, he would actually say it is not going to be helpful to give you that sound bite which is his way of saying i really want to answer your question and you can kind of hear where i'm going with this but i want to keep my job. it is probably better for everybody if i don't answer this. that is a tight rope he doesn't have to walk now. the tight rope that he has to walk now is the one that we want him to, which is what is the science telling us? what is this virus really about? what are the variants really about? will the vaccines address those variants? all the questions that dr. gupta has been asking for so long that we don't necessarily know answ

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fauci.hat is the sort of -- >> no, i didn't hear it very well at all. >> talking about -- >> sim sorry, what was the question? >> talking about masks -- >> and what was the question she was asking? >> should people be wearing masks like n-95 masks and other types of masks when they are out in public? i noticed you've been wearing two masks lately, for example. should there be n-95 masks for everyone? >> and she wanted to know if the biden administration was going to be sending them out to americans. >> well, i'm not sure that that will happen. i'll ask dr. walensky about that, but the one thing that i will say, and i'm sure dr. walensky will back me on this, is that the most important thing is that everybody should be wearing a mask. the cdc does not recommend that you must wear two masks nor does the cdc recommend that you have to wear an n-95 mask. they just say, the most important thing is get everybody to wear a mask. and i'd like to turn it over to dr. walensky, because she and i talk a

fauci. >> thank you very much. i'm going to spend a couple minutes just summarizing the status of where we are and then maybe addressing some of the things that i know are on people's minds. so, first of all, obviously we're still in a very serious situation. to have over 400,000 deaths is historic in a very bad sense. when you look at the number of new infections we have, it's still at a high rate. hospitalizations are up in certainly areas of the country, which are really stressed from the standpoint of beds, from the standpoint of the stress on the healthcare system. however when you look more recently at the seven-day average of cases. right now it looks like it might actually be plateauing in the sense of turning around. now, there's good news in that, but you have to be careful that we may not be seeing perhaps an artifact, an artifact of slowing down following the holidays. when we see that, we think it's real, but one of the things -- i'm sort of getting a deja vu standing up here, b

fauci is not clinically seeing patients.didn't just contradict president trump but also amy klobuchar who said her husband benefitted from that. >> laura: and ivermechtin received a lot of money because of a huge study. a friend of mine took it last week. covid for 5 days and feeling lousy. in 18 hours she was gardening. she was like i feel almost back to normal. but one major pharmacy chain would not fill it. what? >> it's astonishing. everything is political and it's like big brother is watching over every move with a script behind-the-scenes that nobody understands. these drugs are inexpensive. they are generic. nobody is making a huge profit over them and maybe that's the bottom line. >> laura: the biden covid team can't agree. here's dr. fauci on vaccine effectiveness relating to all of the new strains. watch. >> we have seen aannouncements that it the vaccines we are using are still effective. >> there is more than one variant that may duck the vaccine. >> laura: and the 2 mask deal. >> a physical covering with one lay

anthony fauci. there will now be response briefings a few times each week to update reporters and the public. this runs one hour. >> ok. thank you for joining us today. i'm the white house covid coordinator. i had the privilege of being joined by four of america's leading doctors and health experts today. conducting our first covid-19 briefing. i will keep my comments very brief. yesterday, we met with governors and other local leaders to update them on our progress and plans. today, we are here because we have to have a regular series. we want to have a regular series of briefings to engage you on the state of the pandemic and give all of you accurate, up-to-date information. the president strongly believes that the scientists who are leading the effort should face the american people directly. to that end, going forward, you can expect to hear directly from people including dr. fauci, dr. nguyen minsky, and the sergeant general. my role as court nadir of our federal response is to ensure that we a

fauci. >> [indiscernible] [indiscernible] >> dr. wilensky, can you hear us? great. we had some operational difficulties. over to you on the state of the pandemic. from the cdc. >> thank you for joining us today. i am the new director of the cdc. i would like to start by recognizing the true tragic toll that the covid-19 pandemic has taken on all of us, especially those who have lost loved ones and who continue to suffer in the wake of this disease. this is the first of many briefings and i look forward to speaking with you often, updating you on the state of the pandemic, and sharing actions the public can take to protect themselves and those they love. let's start with an overview of the data. there are hopeful signs we are watching closely. 25.1 million covid-19 cases have been reported to the cdc through january 25. during the week of january 19 through the 25th, a seven day average of new cases decreased by 21% over 166,000 for day. during the week of january 18 through january 24, the s

fauci said schools can be safe from covid-19. but what do teachers have to say about that. >>> one district is upset. they say it feels like officials have already thrown in the towel. >>> also coming up, a first look inside the lab where stanford is tracking the south africa variant. what they discovered in the first few studies. >>> how this case showcases a problem with prolific offenders. >>> when you look at the history of how this virus is moving in schools, it seems to be less spreading there than it is in the community. >> and we begin with a debate intensifying over how and whether to reopen schools. top level officials are pointing to the low risk of catching covid-19 if precautions are taken. precautions are part of building a better bay area. >>> president biden is hoping to reopen a majority of schools in his first 100 days, but many wonder how that would happen. we had a conversation with a lot of schools about this. lyanne melendez tells us about that conversation. >> thschools help us with guidelines on how to ope

anthony fauci. good morning, dr. fauci. i want to start by saying this, we report the numbers of deaths and cases every day. i want to pause and ask you your reaction to 350,000 deaths we've now reached. did you ever expect it to be that high? >> no, martha, i did not. you know, that's what happens when you're in a situation where you have surges related to so many factors. inconsistent adhering to the public health measures. the winter months coming in right now with the cold allowing people or essentially forcing people to do most things indoors as opposed to outdoors and the traveling associated with the holiday season is all of the ingredients that unfortunately make for a situation that's really terrible. to have 300,000 cases in a given day and between 2,000 and 3,000 deaths per day is just terrible. it is. there's no running away from the numbers, martha. it's something we've got to grasp and get our arms around and turn that inflection down by very intensive adherence to public health measures, uniformly throughout

fauci mentioned. once we start hitting that mark, we've really suppressed the activity of this virus to the way other coronaviruses are, like the common cold and the flu. and i am really, truly, i believe that like our christmas holiday season, maybe including thanksgiving, that we will be able to lift a lot of these public health precautions, including probably only limiting masks, candidly, alex, to the people that we know are still at risk of getting this infection. maybe children, maybe people with certain diseases after we've done more research. but it is definitely going to be a better and better summer, fall, and winter. >> something i want to ask, and it's actually something my mother brought up, because she went to see her physician this week, and he suggested, it's possible we're going to need to have annual boosters, like the flu shot, that kind of thing, for covid. do you know anything about that? has that been determined, definitively? >> it has not been determined definitively, but here'

fauci-trump. this is a societal thing. marty: there are a number of minorities that are suspicious about the vaccine and resistant to take it. so the more we can tell people that the vaccine is safe and very few side effects and that it is a public duty to take the vaccine, the better. tom: i wore if liars, you were kids, but we both wore thick -- i wore pf flyers, you wore keds. marty: my sister still has the card that show she got the polio vaccine in 1956. tom: and i remember, this is so important, the mothers in tears over the immediacy of older children affected by polio. marty:marty: it was really something. that was an -- it was really something. marty: that was an active poliovirus that you were taking, and there were some cases of people contracting polio. but it was eradicated from the u.s. francine: yesterday we were all listening to anthony fauci, and it was a very different press conference from what we had under president trump. does it make a difference incentivizing people to reach out and go and get vaccin

fauci? dr.ci: yeah, obviously something as extraordinary as the experience we are going through is not going to be addressed adequately by one element. i think you correctly pointed that out, mayor stoney. vaccine is absolutely critical when you have a global pandemic, but if you look at the other things that are involved there, the economic situation, social situation, all those other things, that is the reason why, when you look at the plan, and we started off the discussion by talking about the national strategy that we had, the president's national covid-19 strategy, if you read through it, it really touches on those other things that make it comprehensive, that you alluded to and described so nicely during the discussion. it is a critical part of it. so it is not one element that is going to get us through it. as a scientist and as a person who helps develop vaccines, i feel strongly about the need and importance of vaccines, but i'm also modest enough to know that that is not going to do i

fauci. >> reporter: tony fauci is a firm believer in being his p.r.e you done an interview with the farmers almanac yet? [laughter] >> we need to get accurate information out. >> reporter: love him or hate him, tony fauci is a force to be reckoned with, coming up on "sunday morning." >> pauley: of course, we can all saddened by the passing of board of director larry king, who interviewed all sorts of folks. lee cowan looks back. >> larry king now. >> reporter: he had a broadcasting carrier that spanned 68 years. why don't you do more interviews? >> nobody invites me. >> do you ever own a jacket? >> i own a jacket, but i just like this look. >> reporter: he schmoozed presidents and even smooched marlon brando. we remember larry king later on "sunday morning." >> pauley: seth doane sends us a postcard from italy about fashion artisans hit hard by the drop in tourism. and ben tracy looks back at his 10 years as our cbs news white house correspondent. mark whitaker catches up with ma mark fetterman on this "sunday morning" the 24th of january 2021. and we

anthony fauci. for my interview anthony fauci. but stay right there, don't go away. you are going to want to see lawrence this next hour. among other things, he's got president biden's new white house chief of staff here live. it's inside the biden agenda and it starts right now. >>> tonight, we are going inside the biden agenda with white house chief of staff ron klein and the next secretary of transportation pete buttigieg. we'll also be joined by members of congress to consider the biden agenda's reception legislatively in congress. if you're having a liberating feeling right now, you're not the only one. here is what dr. anthony fauci said today after his first meeting with the 46th president of the united states of america, joe biden. and dr. fauci's friend ron klein who will be our first guest tonight and who worked with dr. fauci when the obama/biden administration met the challenge of the ebola virus. >> you know, actually, i mean obviously i don't want to be going back, you know, over history. but it's very clear that there were things that were said, be it

fauci and dr. walensky. it seems that the mutations inside ofco v 2 and seeing which ones are going to affect outcomes and ultimate vaccine immunity. are there plans to expand on current sequencinging on national level? like provide states with additional funding for collecting samples, collecting the sequence themselves? or how high of a priority is this to have a more national sequencing for surveillance purposes? >> dr. walensky. >> thank you, yes. we are actively working only this, these are data and samples collected in the states, as well as academic and other collaborations. we'll highlight again the money in the american recovery act to move this forward. and we do have access to those resources to do the amount of sequencing surveillance in order to be able to detect these when they first start to emerge. >> believe it or not, we are 43rd in the world at g nomic sequencing. so it's part of the plan. -- to spot the difference -- getting signal that i'm going in and out. you can hear me now? back up f

fauci is right? new administration is doing everything it possibly can to increase the doses of vaccines that are available for americans. it is clear they have examining how to use the defense production act in whatever way is possible. i think they have so far been in consid conversations with every vaccine manufactures and trying to understand what would make a difference. i think dr. fauci is saying if there is nothing with the defe defensive act to do. >> the vaccine is rolling out and over 20 million people have gotten it so far. those people want to know if they still have to keep on wearing a mask and social distancing. this is what dr. fauci said. >> you can conceivably get infected and get no symptoms and still have the virus, which means you would have to wear a mask to prevent you from infecting someone else as well as the other side of the coin where you may not be totally protecting yourself. getting vaccinated does not say i have a free pass to put aside all the public health measures

fauci. dr. administration and he seemed to be very -- much more direct in his disagreements with some of what was coming out of the white house. he talked also about the same thing you had mentioned, about look, if i had left, he said he was the skunk at the picnic. if i left there would be no skunk in the picnic and he felt that was necessary for him to be around for that reason. here's what he said in this "the new york times" interview. he talks about then president trump's refusal to believe what experts were telling him. and dr. fauci told the paper, quote, we would say things like, this is an outbreak. infectious diseases run their own course unless one does something to intervene. and then he would get up and start talking about, it's going to go away. it's magical. it's going to disappear. i think a lot of people realized there was a disconnect between fantasy and reality in the white house. how do you react to hearing dr. fauci spell it out like that? >> i mean, my heart goes out to him

fauci says they'll likely do even better than that. but he needs to find answers about the rocky rollout of the vaccines. what's gone wrong. and he also concedes a lack of candor and facts during the trump administration likely cost lives. dr. fauci in his own words in a moment. >> also, the biden administration rolled out new sk executive orders. his main work is pushing for a $1.9 trillion stimulus package, but this morning, lawmakers can't even agree on the rules that will govern the senate. we'll begin with dr. fauci breaking news. >> new data out this morning. the hospitalization rate has continued to tick down. there's a real discernible difference and downward trend in hospitalizations. that's good news. but professor michael osterholm and others are looking at the new variants we're seeing around the world and in some cases in the united states, and they are concerned we could see a new surge, a new wave from these new variants. how real should that fear be this morning? >> well, you always have to maintain that as a possibilit

anthony fauci in a way that doesn't thend. could just -- you could just do that for five or six hours, and i wouldn't need to take a break. >> i -- he is really remarkable and i think, you know, his -- we are at such a switch point right now on this vaccine. the trajectories that lay out before ourt country are remarkable. you heard it from him. a lot depends, a lot of it. >>

fauci. >> thank you very much. i'm going to spend a couple minutes just summarizing the status of where we are and then maybe addressing some of the things that i know are on people's minds. so, first of all, obviously, we are still in a very serious situation. i mean, to have over 400,000 deaths is something that, you know, is unfortunately historic in the very bad sense. when you look at the number of new infections that we have, it's still at a very, very high rate. hospitalizations are up. there are certain areas of the country, as i think you're all familiar with, which are really stressed from the standpoint of beds, from the standpoint of the stress on the health care system. however, when you look more recently at the seven-day average of cases, remember, we were going between 300,000 and 400,000 and 200,000 and 3,00,00. right now it looks like it might actually be plateauing in the sense of turning around. now, there's good news in that, but you have to be careful that we may not be seeing, perhaps, an art