GOP Sen. Ron Johnson Says Fauci 'Overhyped' COVID-19 Like He Did AIDS
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, a Republican from Wisconsin, said Dr. Anthony Fauci has “overhyped” the COVID-19 pandemic and he did the “exact same thing with AIDS.” The senator made the remarks on a podcast with Fox & Friends cohost Brian Kilmeade that aired Wednesday on World AIDS Day.
Johnson has pushed COVID-19 misinformation before, according to HuffPost.
“Fauci did the exact same thing with AIDS. He overhyped it,” Johnson told Kilmeade. “He created all kinds of fear, saying it could affect the entire population when it couldn’t,” Johnson said, without citing scientific evidence. “And he’s doing, he’s using the exact same playbook with COVID, ignoring therapy, pushing a vaccine.”
It’s well known that both HIV and COVID-19 can affect anyone. While there is no vaccine for HIV, there are vaccines available for COVID-19. Fauci’s role in combating the country’s HIV crisis that began in the 1980s is also well known. Fauci was the first director of the National Institutes of Health’s Office of AIDS Research.
Those early years in the HIV epidemic were a confusing time, Fauci told The Advocate previously. “The U.S. didn’t jump right away to address it like they should have, so it was left up to scientists and doctors like myself that were not very numerous, and gay activists who really beat the bushes to get people’s attention to do more about this disease,” he said.
In the U.S. more than 700,000 people have died due to the COVID-19 pandemic in less than two years. That’s equal to the number of people who have died due to HIV since the virus was isolated and identified in 1983.
https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/12/02/gop-sen-ron-johnson-says-fauci-overhyped-covid-19-he-did-aids
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