<p>Fox News host and former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany mocked retiring National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins for his performance of a COVID-19 version of &#8220;Somewhere Over the Rainbow.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="https://dailywire.com/news/watch-nih-director-sings-over-the-rainbow-to-praise-himself-health-officials-insist-pandemic-isnt-over/">Collins</a> performed the tune, which he titled &#8220;Somewhere Past the Pandemic,&#8221; accompanying himself on a guitar — and McEnany said on Thursday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;Outnumbered&#8221; that she had initially thought it was intended to be a joke.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Director of the NIH, Dr. Francis Collins&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/tUKqkK84td">pic.twitter.com/tUKqkK84td</a></p>
<p>— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1470862234192474114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 14, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Collins sang:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Somewhere past the pandemic, masks will come off ♪</em><br />
<em>♪ No more need for a nose swab every time we cough</em></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;Wow. Yeah, so I think I first saw this clip on &#8216;Gutfeld!&#8217; last night and I thought to myself, &#8216;Wow, that is a really good impersonator of Francis Collins, the head of the NIH — and then I woke up and I see &#8216;America’s Newsroom&#8217; and I see this again and I go, &#8216;Wait, that wasn’t an impersonator, that was literally the head of The National Institutes of Health,'&#8221; <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/kayleigh-mcenany-sounds-off-on-don-lemon-after-cnn-host-says-opposition-to-crt-rooted-in-privilege/">McEnany</a> continued. &#8220;It doesn’t necessarily inspire confidence in public officials.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;You know, it reminds me of Fauci, who never met a camera he didn’t like,&#8221; McEnany added. &#8220;Who, when we were in the White House working on COVID-19, he is posing for In Style magazine poolside — there’s a picture of it — sending emails about how he looks like Brad Pitt and &#8216;it looked exactly like me&#8217; when Brad Pitt impersonated him on &#8216;SNL,&#8217; saying that statement &#8216;made my year.&#8217; These are our public health officials, America. Do you have faith?&#8221;</p>
<p>If the comments that circulated on Twitter were any indication, Collin&#8217;s performance did not inspire the confidence he might have hoped it would.</p>
<p>&#8220;Confidence-inspiring or cringeworthy? My vote: The latter,&#8221; physician <a href="https://twitter.com/StevePhillipsMD/status/1470918301912023041">Steven Phillips</a> tweeted.</p>
<p>Newsmax National Correspondent <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeCarterTV/status/1471133873035792386">Mike Carter</a> added, &#8220;Here’s the outgoing NIH Director Francis Collins singing ‘Somewhere Past the Pandemic,’ while playing the guitar. Totally normal thing nbd.&#8221;</p>
<p>Collins had announced several weeks earlier that he intended to leave his position as the head of the National Institutes of Health — which oversees a number of other organizations including the one headed up by White House Chief Medical Advisor <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/how-do-you-overhype-that-fauci-objects-to-ron-johnson-claim-that-he-wants-to-keep-people-scared-of-covid/">Dr. Anthony Fauci</a>, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.</p>
<p>The NIH shared some of the accomplishments made under Collins&#8217; leadership in a Wednesday tweet, saying, &#8220;Under his leadership, Dr. Collins helped establish several #NIH initiatives to address pressing biomedical research and public health issues. A few of these include the #BRAIN Initiative, @AllOfUsResearch, #nihHEALinitiative, and #AMP. #ThankYouDrCollins.&#8221;</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Under his leadership, Dr. Collins helped establish several <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NIH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NIH</a> initiatives to address pressing biomedical research and public health issues. A few of these include the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BRAIN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BRAIN</a> Initiative, <a href="https://twitter.com/AllofUsResearch?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AllOfUsResearch</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/nihHEALinitiative?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#nihHEALinitiative</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AMP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AMP</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ThankYouDrCollins?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ThankYouDrCollins</a></p>
<p>— NIH (@NIH) <a href="https://twitter.com/NIH/status/1471219770209054731?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 15, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Collins shared his farewell interview video Thursday, adding, &#8220;I’m truly grateful for the sendoff I received today from my #NIH family and friends and colleagues from over the years! I couldn’t have had a nicer farewell, thank you all!&#8221;</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">I’m truly grateful for the sendoff I received today from my <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NIH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NIH</a> family and friends and colleagues from over the years! I couldn’t have had a nicer farewell, thank you all! <a href="https://t.co/o4uhgXQ7pW">https://t.co/o4uhgXQ7pW</a></p>
<p>— Francis S. Collins (@NIHDirector) <a href="https://twitter.com/NIHDirector/status/1471558749458509826?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2021</a></p></blockquote>

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