Co-Hosts of Liberal Daytime Gabfest 'The View' Give 'Hero' Fauci a Pass after Clarifying 'Pandemic Phase' Comments

The co-hosts of ABC’s liberal daytime gabfest “The View” gave Dr. Anthony Fauci a pass Thursday after he was forced to clarify comments he made earlier in the week that the U.S. was “certainly” out of the “pandemic phase” of the coronavirus.

“We are certainly right now in this country out of the pandemic phase,” Dr. Fauci said during a Tuesday interview with PBS NewsHour, before clarifying the next day on an NPR podcast that he “probably should have said the acute component of the pandemic phase,” and that the pandemic was “still here.”

During The View’s opening segment, which continued its constant criticism of former President Donald Trump’s administration, co-host Joy Behar excused Fauci’s “walk back,” saying that “science evolves and changes,” as co-host Sunny Hostin declared him a “hero” of the pandemic.