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Tapper Presses Fauci on Booster Approval Flip Flop

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CNN’s Jake Tapper pressed Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday for appearing to take two different positions regarding the FDA panel’s decision to reject offering a Covid-19 booster shot.

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Last week, Fauci told KHN he thought it would be a “mistake” if the panel decided there wasn’t enough data. Then he changed his tune after the advisory committed voted 16-2 against giving Covid-19 booster shots to the general public. The panel did embrace a plan to give individuals 65 and older and other high-risk Americans a third shot, however.

“On Wednesday you said in an interview, quote, ‘if they say we don’t think there’s enough data to do a booster, then so be it, I think that would be a mistake to be honest with you,’ so on Wednesday you said it would be a mistake. But now you’re saying you don’t think it was a mistake,” Tapper said

Fauci argued his previous comments were his personal opinion after reviewing the data but insisted he has “no problem” with the panel’s decision. 

“No, I mean, I – you know, what I was saying, that mistake, my own personal looking at this, again, just because I look at the data and say I would do it this way, that’s the reason why we have qualified groups of people who together as a committee examine all the data and make a decision. So I have no problem at all with their decision. The thing that I’m saying is that data will continue to come in, and I believe you’re going to see an evolution of this process as we go on in the next several weeks to months.”

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Grabien Media's Tom Elliott has been keeping track of Fauci's flip-flops -- a list that seems to grow by the day.

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