Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious diseases expert and\u00a0highest paid<\/a>\u00a0federal employee in the country, is on another Sunday media junket – telling\u00a0Fox News’\u00a0<\/em>Chris Wallace that a new wave of COVID-19 infections could be on their way, and urged former President Trump to start promoting vaccines to his followers.<\/p>\n Europe “always seems to be a few weeks ahead of us,”<\/strong>\u00a0said Fauci, adding that this is “absolutely no time to declare victory” just because of a sharp dropoff in cases, causing several states choosing to ease pandemic restrictions.<\/p>\n “They thought they were home free, and they weren\u2019t, and now they are seeing cases going up,” Fauci said, referring to European health officials.<\/p>\n Citing a PBS NewsHour\/NPR\/Marist poll released last week which revealed about half of US men who identified as Republicans say they don’t plan to get the vaccine, Wallace asked whether Trump should speak directly to his supporters about the vaccine, to which Fauci replied: “I hope he does because the numbers that you gave are so disturbing<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n “How such a large proportion of a certain group of people would not want to get vaccinated merely because of political considerations … it makes absolutely no sense,” said Fauci – whose\u00a0NIH funded<\/a>\u00a0gain-of-function bat COVID experiments in Wuhan, China through New York-based nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/fauci%20covid_0.PNG?itok=tMZeV9yA\")
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