WASHINGTON, D.C., May 24, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), said during a U.S. Senate hearing that he estimates just under half of employees at the NIH have not taken a COVID-19 vaccine.
Appearing to speak on behalf of the NIAID’s parent agency, the NIH, a short video clip shows Fauci telling Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) during a hearing with the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee that, while he is “not 100 percent sure,” he believes around only “a little bit more than half, probably around 60 percent” of staff at the NIH have elected to receive one of the experimental vaccines against COVID-19.
Burr had asked Fauci, a representative of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “what percentage of the employees in your institute, your center, your agency…has been vaccinated?”
Dr. Peter Marks, Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research at the FDA, also present at the hearing, related a similar figure for staff in his agency. The FDA is responsible for regulating drug
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