Fauci One Year Ago: ‘You Cannot Force Someone to Take a Vaccine’

Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House chief medical adviser, dismissed concerns over vaccine mandates one year ago, explicitly stating that one “cannot force someone to take a vaccine.”

“I don’t think you’ll ever see a mandating of vaccine, particularly for the general public,” Fauci said during a Healthline townhall in August 2020.

“If someone refuses the vaccine in the general public, then there’s nothing you can do about that,” he said at the time. “You cannot force someone to take a vaccine”:

Dr. Fauci, the US’ leading infectious disease expert, says he doesn’t foresee a Covid-19 vaccine mandate.

“If someone refuses the vaccine in the general public, then there’s nothing you can do about that. You cannot force someone to take a vaccine.” https://t.co/CiRNP5bwUF

— CNN (@CNN) August 19, 2020

Like he has on other issues, such as the use of masks, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director has since evolved, altering his position on vaccine mandates and explicitly expressing support for local vaccine mandates. – READ MORE