Fauci Stresses That Immigrants Are “Absolutely Not” Responsible for Uptick in Coronavirus Infections in U.S.

Speaking connected CNN, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s starring adept connected infectious diseases, stressed that immigrants are “absolutely not” liable for the uptick successful Covid-19 infections crossed the United States.

“This is not driven by immigrants,” Fauci told CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“This is the occupation wrong our country, the aforesaid mode it’s a occupation with different countries passim the world,” helium said. “The idea, erstwhile you person 700,000 Americans dormant and millions and millions and millions of Americans getting infected, you don’t privation to look extracurricular to the problem.”

Fauci said that “the driving force” of Covid-19 infections nationwide “is wrong our ain country.” 

A bulk of Republicans believe, with nary evidence, that immigrants and tourists are liable for the caller surge of Covid-19 infections, according to a recent poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Republican politicians person besides echoed these falsehoods.

In August, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) made that outlandish claim that Democrats are “plucking” sick children from the U.S.-Mexico borderline and planting them astir the state arsenic portion of a larger program to “seed” the highly contagious Delta variant crossed the country.

“They’re taking kids from down astatine the borderline who whitethorn person it, and they’re plucking them up and putting them each implicit the United States, arsenic if they’re wishing to effect the state with a caller variant. It’s an atrocious happening to do,” Paul said connected Fox News astatine the time.