Fauci Only Enforces COVID Testing For Certain People

Anthony Fauci, America’s top infectious diseases expert, got called out Wednesday by press correspondent, Peter Doocy, on the matter of testing individuals traveling into the U.S. by plane as compared to those who cross the U.S.-Mexico Border.

“Have you advised the president of the possibility of new testing requirements for people coming into this country? Does that include everybody?” Doocy asked Fauci during Wednesday’s White House press briefing.

“The answer is yes because you know that the new regulation if you want to call it that, is that anybody and everybody who’s coming into the country needs to get a test within 24 hours of getting on the plane to come here,” responded Fauci.

Doocy pressed him further, “But what about people who don’t take a plane and just these border crossers coming in huge numbers?”

“That’s a different issue. We still have Title 42 with regard to protection at the border,” said Fauci. “So there are protections at the border that you don’t have the capability, as you know, of somebody getting on the plane, getting checked, looking at passport. We don’t have that there. But we can get some degree of mitigation.”

“Is there something to do to test these people somewhere else or–” Doocy started to ask when Fauci cut him off by saying, “There is testing at the border under certain circumstances, as you know.”

The policy currently under consideration would require all individuals, including U.S. citizens, to provide proof of a negative COVID test regardless of vaccination status no more than three days before their flight.

Biden announced new travel restrictions Friday from South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique and Malawi, due to the Omicron COVID-19 variant.