EXCERPT:
CLOUD: “I'm going to go through a list of Covid mitigation measures that you supported over the course of the pandemic and ask you to give me a yes or no as to whether you believe these measures were justified. Business closures?”
FAUCI: “When 5,000 people were dying a day, yes.”
CLOUD: “Church closures?”
FAUCI: “Same thing.”
CLOUD: “School closures?”
FAUCI: “Again, the --”
CLOUD: “Stay at home orders?”
FAUCI: “These were important when we were trying to stop the tsunami of deaths that were occurring early on.”
CLOUD: “Early on?”
FAUCI: “How long you kept them going is debatable.”
CLOUD: “Mask mandates for adults, mask mandates for children, mask mandates for children under five?”
FAUCI: “And going back to what I said before, all of that is in the context of at that time 4-5,000 people a day were dying.”