60 Minutes: Fauci — 'no reason to be walking around with a mask'

In a 60 Minutes interview with Dr. Jon LaPook, Fauci said people should not be walking around with masks, citing in part the shortage risk for healthcare workers; CDC reversed to recommending cloth face coverings on April 3, 2020. The clip became one of the most-recirculated COVID-era video fragments — cited by critics as early guidance shaped by supply concerns rather than science, and by defenders as guidance that matched WHO/CDC recommendations of the moment and changed with evidence on asymptomatic spread.