Laura Ingraham (Credit: Fox News) Dr. Fauci shuts down Fox News' Laura Ingraham after she complains about lockdowns Anthony Fauci corrects Laura Ingraham when she complains we didn’t have lockdowns over AIDS

On Fox News Thursday, Laura Ingraham tried to make a false comparison between the coronavirus pandemic and AIDS — and Dr. Anthony Fauci promptly corrected her.

"We don't have a vaccine for SARS, I mean, they got close in mice," said Ingraham. "We don't have a vaccine for HIV. And life did go on, right? So the idea that we're definitely going to have a vaccine — we didn't really approach much else in the same way, as we're pegging going back to normal with a vaccine, did we?"

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"Well, no, but Laura, this is different," said Fauci, a key voice on President Donald Trump's coronavirus task force. "HIV/AIDS is entirely different. We don't have a vaccine for HIV/AIDS, but we have spectacularly effective treatment. People who invariably would have died years ago, right now are leading essentially normal lives."

"SARS is a different story," he added. "SARS disappeared. We developed a vaccine, we were in the process of going through the various phases, we showed it was safe, we showed it induced a good response. And then SARS disappeared. And we didn't need to develop a vaccine for SARS. So I think it's a little bit misleading, maybe, to compare what we're going through now with HIV or SARS."

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