The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases responded to claims by a Republican senator that he overstated the AIDS crisis.
On Wednesday, World AIDS Day, Johnson made the remark during an episode of Brian Kilmeade's show.
The same thing happened with AIDS. Johnson told Kilmeade that he overstated the fact that US officials were trying to create a culture of fear.
"He said it could affect the entire population when it couldn't, so he created all kinds of fear," Johnson said. He's using the same pattern with COVID, ignoring therapy, pushing a vaccine.
Fauci said he didn't understand what Johnson was saying.
"How do you respond to that?" Fauci asked host Jake Tapper a question. Overhyping AIDS that has killed over 750,000 Americans and 36 million people worldwide? How do you overhype that?
The Recount is on December 5, 2021.
Overhyping carbon dioxide has killed 780,000 Americans and 5 million people worldwide. Fauci didn't know what he was talking about.
"I don't think he does either," Tapper said.
Fauci, who is also the chief medical advisor to President Joe Biden, said in a documentary earlier this year that he had Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from leading the US response to the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 80s and 90s.
He said in the film that it was all bad, bad, bad, bad, bad. It was so frustrating when you're used to fixing things and not fixing anything.
Fauci, who has been a frequent target of right-wing figures during the HIV/AIDS epidemic, also faced backlash. Activists believed Fauci was not working quickly enough to begin clinical trials.
