Mediaite. To be fair, virtually no one would’ve seen this response coming:“Well, that’s an unanswerable question for the following reason,” Fauci said, “and I don’t want to be evasive about it, but let me tell you why I’m giving you that answer … We are certainly right now in this country out of the pandemic phase.”It’s not clear whether Fauci, Chief Medical Advisor to the President of the United States, has the authority to make that characterization in any way official.