“If you are trying to, you know, get at me as a public health official and a scientist,” Fauci said, “you’re really attacking not only Dr. Anthony Fauci, you’re attacking science!” Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) responded to the doctor-turned-celebrity, saying, “I think he’s gotten high on his own supply a little bit here in regards to this.” Calling for him to be fired, Rubio said Fauci “sounds more like a political figure than he does like a health care expert” and added that he “has lost a tremendous amount of credibility among the American people [and] done very significant damage to public health.”