WATCH: Rand Paul Spars With Fauci: ‘Ridiculous’ To Cancel School In The Fall, ‘I Don’t Think You’re The End-All’

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The Daily Wire

Paul Bois

May 12 2020

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), an ophthalmologist who recently recovered from COVID-19, sparred with Dr. Anthony Fauci,  the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, over his suggestion that the lockdowns should continue and that schools should be closed through the fall semester.

 

During his testimony before a U.S. Senate committee on Tuesday, Fauci covered a range of topics, stressing that COVID-19 could see a resurgence as states and cities reopen their economies, which have been crippled as a result of the shutdowns he advocated for.

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Senator Rand Paul Questions Dr. Fauci, Drops a Bomb in Senate Hearing

Senator Rand Paul had the best five minutes in the first two hours of the hearing in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee today. It is clear he has been abiding by shelter-in-place orders because his hair and beard look dangerously close to qualifying him to join the cast of Duck Dynasty. However, his questions could not have been more on point.

 

The doctor in Rand Paul took over for the questioning. He began by challenging Dr. Fauci on the media narrative that there is no evidence that patients who survive coronavirus have immunity. To be helpful Paul pointed out the following:

• In experiments, rhesus monkeys infected with COVID-19 can’t be reinfected
• Studies have shown plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients neutralizes the virus in lab experiments
• The entire premise of convalescent plasma treatment, mentioned by several on the panel as a potential treatment currently in trials, is that recovered patients develop immunity capable of killing the virus
• Recovering patients across the board are showing significant antibody response
• We know SARS and MERS, coronaviruses with similar clinical presentations, confer immunity for at least 2-3 years