Fauci on flying maskless: It's "complicated"

• He expressed hope that guidelines on flights within the U.S. could loosen within months if enough Americans get vaccinated.

What they’re saying: "It's complicated because the people who are vaccinated could easily be on airplanes without a mask because we know you're protected, whether you're indoor or outdoor," Fauci said at an Axios virtual event, airing Wednesday.

• "The trouble is that we don't have vaccine passports, so we don't know who is vaccinated or not."
• "I hope that we get enough people vaccinated that, at least on domestic flights, that it would be a matter of months," he said. But "the issue globally is a different story," because of surge in infections in other parts of the world.

See the full interview, as well as Pfizer chairman and CEO Albert Bourla, during a virtual event on the COVID-19 vaccine rollout at 12:30 p.m. today. Sign up here.