Usually very measured, Anthony Fauci got angry.

During a hearing before the Senate on Tuesday, the immunologist advising Covid-19 of the White House sounded the alarm bells on the epidemic outbreak, in the face of a new record of hospitalizations.

And he clashed with Republican Senator Rand Paul, whom he accused "of exciting the mad".

146,000 infected patients are currently occupying hospital beds across the country, according to data from the US Department of Health on Tuesday.

Among them, nearly 24,000 were in intensive care.

The previous record stood at more than 142,000 people hospitalized, and was recorded on January 14, 2021, almost a year ago to the day.

The United States is currently facing an impressive outbreak of the epidemic linked to the Omicron variant.

The country has recorded record numbers of contaminations since the end of December.

“There is 17 times more risk of being hospitalized, and 20 times more likely to die, if you are not vaccinated, than if you are,” Fauci repeated.

And vaccination is leveling off in the United States, with only 62.6% of the population fully vaccinated, and only 36.5% having received three doses.

Death threats and harassment

Anthony Fauci attacked Republican Senator Rand Paul.

Brandishing a “Virez Fauci” message printed from the Kentucky elected official's campaign site, the immunologist was annoyed: “He accuses me of things that are completely false, and all of a sudden, it excites the crazy.

I have received death threats, and my family and children are harassed.

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On his website, Rand Paul accuses Anthony Fauci of having "lied about everything from masks to the contagiousness of the virus".

The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases cited as an example the arrest of a man in Iowa, en route to Washington armed with a semi-automatic rifle, and who intended, according to the authorities, to kill several personalities including Joe Biden and Anthony Fauci.

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