There has been a lull in hearing from White House medical advisor Anthony Fauci in recent weeks, but many will be glad to hear what he most recently said. Fauci declared the United States ‘out of the pandemic phase’ of the novel coronavirus.

However, some are critical as to the manner in which he made the declaration. Fauci’s “comments were buried at the end of an interview with PBS’s NewsHour on Tuesday” and “caused some confusion by saying the ‘pandemic phase’ was over at home but ‘is still ongoing globally” reports Daily Mail.

Fauci said “We are certainly right now in this country out of the pandemic phase.” Well, that sounds great. “Namely, we don’t have 900,000 new infections a day and tens and tens and tens of thousands of hospitalizations and thousands of deaths. We are at a low level right now” he continued.

“So, if you’re saying, are we out of the pandemic phase in this country, we are. What we hope to do, I don’t believe — and I have spoken about this widely — we’re not going to eradicate this virus…If we can keep that level very low, and intermittently vaccinate people — and I don’t know how often that would have to be…That might be every year, that might be longer, in order to keep that level low. But, right now, we are not in the pandemic phase in this country…Pandemic means a widespread, throughout the world, infection that spreads rapidly among people. So, if you look at the global situation, there’s no doubt this pandemic is still ongoing.”

Daily Mail writes that health experts pointed out Fauci was adding to confusion over the term pandemic, adding he should have said the ‘US is in a phase of lower hospitalization rate’.

Oddly, Fauci continues his personal policy of mask wearing and general isolation in spite of his comments to PBS. He declined an invitation to the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) Dinner this coming Saturday “because of my individual assessment of my personal risk.”