Dr. Robert Redfield, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told Newsmax on Friday that the erosion of public trust in the nation’s health agencies was “one of the real prices we paid for the COVID pandemic.”

Five years after the initial lockdowns of 2020, the public sentiment toward the CDC and the National Institutes of Health has cratered. Much of the public antipathy can be traced to the actions of Dr. Anthony Fauci, who supported school closures and widespread masking, and insisted the vaccine would prevent transmission, according to Redfield, who said he is “very worried about that because you can’t have public health without public trust.”

“And right now, I don’t think we have high levels of public trust. I am very concerned about the bird flu pandemic that’s currently in in agriculture — turkeys and chickens and a variety of mammals,” he said during an appearance on “Finnerty.”

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