We've obviously been trying very hard, we try to get trusted messengers out there and try and get this away from being an ideological or political statement, get back into the realm of pure public health, and try to convince people.

Anthony Fauci

We want to look at the data ourselves, but we have every reason to believe them, we’re going to look at this and follow this very, very carefully because these things evolve.

Let’s take this as something to watch closely.

These are serious situations that we are following very closely and, if necessary, we will adapt to it.

When you get more cases, you’re going to get more hospitalizations. And when you get more hospitalizations, you’re ultimately going to get more deaths.

It has not become dominant, it might. That's the reason why you have to watch it carefully as we go from January into February, and really take a good look.

I don't want to get ahead of them, but I have to tell you I would be surprised if it was any more than two weeks from now that data will be analyzed, and decisions would be made.

States were doing things that clearly were not the right direction - and that’s unfortunate.

I feel fairly confident that that's going to be not only that but maybe even better, the amount that will be coming in, we will be able to meet that goal.

I take no pleasure at all in being in a situation of contradicting the president.

The experts say, by wearing a mask from now until April, we’d save more than 50,000 lives.

Our default position – there will always be exceptions ... there is never one-size-fits-all – our default position should be to try to keep the schools open and get children who are not in school back in school as best as we possibly can.

When you take into consideration the safety and the health of the children as well as the teachers, in general, it looks like we can keep the children in school and get them back to school safely.

I am honored to announce that the United States will remain a member of the World Health Organization, yesterday, President Biden signed the letters retracting the previous administration’s announcement to withdraw from the organization.

One thing that’s clear is that the issue of getting 100 million doses in the first 100 days is absolutely a doable thing, the feasibility of his goal is absolutely clear. There’s no doubt about that, that that can be done.

The idea of vaccinating teachers is very high up in the priority, as well as doing surveillance in the schools so that you can get a good feel for the penetration of infection.

I think its pretty clear that if its in places like California, and New York and Colorado... that pretty soon its going to be in several more states.

Again, no excuses, but Anthony Fauci can explain why Anthony Fauci may not have gotten to the level Anthony Fauci want. Now, not to make excuses, we should have done better. So, let me make that clear, we should have done better, but I think we should wait until we get into maybe the second, or the third week in January, to see if we can now catch up with the original pace that was set.

Clearly, no excuses. We should have gotten 20 distributed, and 20 into the arms of people -- by 20, I mean 20 million, i think we have to wait for the first couple of weeks in January to make any determination as to what's gone wrong, if anything.

Younger working adults are generally more active, more social and travel more so this strategy should decrease community transmission faster than vaccinating older individuals.

We wanted to get to 20 million, but some glimmer of hope is that in the last 72 hours, they’ve gotten 1.2 million doses into peoples’ arms, which is an average of about 500,000 a day, we are not where we want to be. There’s no doubt about that. But I think we can get there.