Fauci Tells Doocy That Requiring COVID Testing For ‘Border Crossers’ is a ‘Different Issue’ Than Requiring Testing For Americans Who ‘Take a Plane’

NIAID director and chief medical advisor to the president Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared today at a press briefing with White House press secretary Jen Psaki.

This gave Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy an opportunity to grill him about COVID testing requirements in regards to “border crossers.”

Doocy asked Fauci, “Have you advised the president about the possibility of testing requirements for people coming into this country? Does that include everybody?”

“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,” Fauci responded

Feeling as though Fauci wasn’t really understanding what he was asking, Doocy then made it clear that he wanted to know, “What about people who don’t take a plane and just these border crossers coming in, in huge numbers?”

“You know what, that’s a different issue, for example, when you’re talking, we still have Title 42 at the border with regard to protection at the border, so there are protections at the border,” Fauci suggested.

Fauci added, “You don’t have the capability as you know of somebody getting on a plane, getting checked, looking at a passport there, 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?” Doocy pressed as it appeared the White House was trying to cut away from him.

Fauci then insisted, “There is testing at the border under certain circumstances as you know” before moving on to the next question.

Fauci says requiring COVID testing for illegal immigrants crossing the border is "a different issue" than requiring testing for Americans traveling pic.twitter.com/kH1jNycxiK

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