Fauci backtracks on criticism of UK on vaccine: NBC
"Ah, we beat you guys. We beat the Americans to the punch"
File Photo: Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on efforts to get back to work and school during the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak, in Washington, DC, US June 30, 2020. Photo : Reuters
US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said on Friday he was reacting to gloating by a British television interviewer when he criticized the country's quick approval of the first coronavirus vaccine.
"It was just one of those things where I sat down in front of the TV with a British TV station and the first thing they said was, 'Ah, we beat you guys. We beat the Americans to the punch'. And I kind of reacted back at him when I think I probably should not have done," Fauci, a member of the White House coronavirus task force, said on NBC's "Today" show.
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