ANN ARBOR, Mich - Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease and the Chief Medical Advisor to the President Dr. Anthony Fauci gave the commencement address at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Saturday.
Fauci spoke to the 4100 graduates from the 2020 and 2021 graduating classes. The ceremony was held for these two classes because there ceremonies were not able to be held in person due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Throughout the speech students and staff cheered and applauded several times.
Outside the stadium, protesters spoke out against vaccine and mask mandates.
Dr. Fauci became the public face of the fight against COVID-19 during the Trump administration and has come under criticism from some Republican lawmakers in Washington.
"We see this happen daily propagated through a range of information platforms social media and so-called news organizations and sad to say certain elected officials in positions of power," said Dr. Fauci.