Sunday shows – Fauci dominates with remarks on vaccines, boosters, masks and Jordan

Anthony Fauci, President Biden’s chief medical adviser, dominated the Sunday morning political talk shows with appearances on multiple networks. 

Fauci discussed the return of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine and continued guidance for mask usage among vaccinated people as well as other topics. 

Administration officials also discussed the cap on refugees allowed to enter the U.S. and Biden’s plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan. 

Read The Hill’s complete coverage below.

Fauci predicts Johnson & Johnson vaccine will return this week in ‘some manner or form’ By JOSEPH CHOI    Anthony Fauci, President Biden’s chief medical adviser, on Sunday said he believed the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine would return this week in “some manner or form” after it was paused due to concerns over a possible link to rare blood clots. Read the full story here

Fauci: Public will know if booster vaccine dose is needed by fall By OLAFIMIHAN OSHIN   The nation’s top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said Sunday that Americans should know if they need to get a booster COVID-19 vaccine shot by this upcoming fall. Read the full story here

Fauci on mask usage: Vaccinated people can still ‘inadvertently infect’ others By JOHN BOWDEN   Anthony Fauci warned Sunday that vaccinated Americans could still be infected with COVID-19 and pass the virus on to others “inadvertently,” thereby necessitating mask usage until more Americans receive the vaccine or the level of confirmed infections significantly drops. Read the full story here

Fauci says comments like Rep. Jim Jordan’s are ‘quite frustrating’ By JOSEPH CHOI   Anthony Fauci said on Sunday that combative comments like those from Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who last week accused the nation’s leading infectious disease expert of promoting pandemic guidelines that violate Americans’ “liberties,” are “quite frustrating.” Read the full story here

Sullivan: White House ‘absolutely committed’ to raising refugee cap By JOHN BOWDEN   President Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, confirmed on Sunday that the U.S. would raise the cap on refugees allowed to enter the U.S. but would not specify a target number.  Read the full story here

Boehner: ‘America First Caucus is one of the nuttiest things I’ve ever seen’ By JOHN BOWDEN   Former Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Sunday derided plans reportedly spearheaded by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) to form a nativist anti-immigration America First Caucus in the House. Read the full story here

Blinken pushes back on criticism to Afghanistan withdrawal: ‘We achieved the objectives that we set out to achieve’ By JOHN BOWDEN   Secretary of State Antony Blinken in an interview broadcast Sunday pushed back on criticism of President Biden’s plan to remove U.S. combat troops from Afghanistan, arguing that the U.S. had fulfilled its mission to end al Qaeda’s ability to strike at the U.S. Read the full story here

Blinken says US will ‘have the means’ to monitor terrorist threats after troops leave Afghanistan By OLAFIMIHAN OSHIN    “We will have the means to see if there is a resurgence, a reemergence of a terrorist threat from Afghanistan,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said. “We’ll be able to see that in real time with time to take action. And we’re going to be repositioning our forces and our assets to make sure that we guard against the potential reemergence.”  Read the full story here