Fauci Speaks Out About His Death Threats

Video Transcript:

In your country, what do you attribute that to that lack of trust amongst them? Well, it's become the politicization of what should be a purely public health issue. The idea that we have in our country, the level of acceptance of well-proven public health interventions, such as vaccines, which have clearly been shown to be lifesaving, to be highly effective and very safe, and very often it's along ideological lines when it should be. There should be no ideological differences in interpretation of what our core immutable public health principles and yet the pushback that we have against seemingly obvious and scientifically proven public health principles is extraordinary, and the degree of ranker is such that I never would have imagined in my wildest dreams that anything that I've ever said, which is purely public health and non-political and non-ideologic, needs to continual death threats against me to the point where I have to be surrounded by federal agents for my protection all the time. I mean, that seems inconceivable if you turn back the clock and talk about other public health crises that we've had with polio and with measles and with smallpox and the things that we've had to alert the public to, there's never been a situation where the divisiveness have led to the threat of physical harm. That is as unprecedented as the notoriety that I have regarding the purely communication of public health principles.