“You said I was joking about it. I was very serious about it. I wasn’t joking. I don’t want to be going back, you know, over history, but it is very clear that there were things that were said, be it regarding things like hydroxychloroquine and other things like that, that really was uncomfortable because they were not based on scientific fact. I can tell you, I take no pleasure at all in being in a situation of contradicting the president, so it was really something that you didn’t feel that you can actually say something and there wouldn’t be any repercussions about it. The idea that you can get up here and talk about what you know, what the evidence — what the science is and know that’s it, let the science speak, it is somewhat of a liberating feeling.” WaPo: Fauci, unchained.

+ On one hand it’s a relief. On the other hand, it also sounds a lot like testimony in a depraved-indifference murder case. Fauci says lack of candor on virus likely cost lives.