Dr. Anthony Fauci admitted that “something clearly went wrong” with the country’s COVID-19 response in an interview published Tuesday — but absolved himself from some of the most impactful results of his anti-infection recommendations. “Show me a school that I shut down and show me a factory that I shut down. Never. I never did,” Fauci told The New York Times Magazine when questioned about the “heavy-handed” policies he suggested throughout the pandemic.

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