In a video uploaded on June 3, 2024 Dr. Fauci admitted that the social distancing measures used during the covid era were not based on recent clinical trials specific to covid and were also based on an assumption that the covid 19 virus did not have an aerosol based component to it.

… there wasn’t a controlled trial that said compare 6 ft with 3 ft with 10 ft. So there wasn’t that scientific evaluation of it. … studies years ago showed that when you’re dealing with droplets, which at the time that the CDC made that recommendation, it was felt that the transmission was primarily through droplet, not aerosol which is incorrect, because we know now aerosol does play a role. … there was no clinical trial that proved that.