Dr. Anthony Fauci is reacting to questions about the negative impacts of masking children in classrooms this fall.
Fauci joined the nationally syndicated Hugh Hewitt Show Monday for an in-depth discussion about the topic. Fauci said the best way to get out of our current COVID uptick is for people to get vaccinated.
“If we could do that, the level of virus in the community would be so low that we wouldn’t be talking about things like masking indoors even for vaccinated people and masking in school,” he said.
Hewitt pushed back against Fauci’s assertion by introducing a Wall Street article by Dr. Makary and Dr. Meissner, who argued that masking children is abusive.
“It’s not comfortable, obviously, for children to wear masks, particularly the younger children,” Fauci said. “But hopefully, this will be a temporary thing, temporary enough that it doesn’t have any lasting negative impact on them.”
Hewitt said, “covering a child’s face mutes these nonverbal forms of communications, and can result in robotic and emotionless interaction.”
Fauci doubled down adding that the delta variant is spreading rapidly across the country.
