The video you linked is actually the same video I watched which lead me to believe it is not a mask.
Watch the opening 10 seconds again, when Fauci is being introduced. He clearly swallows and you see the skin on his neck tighten, then go back to rest just over his collar. Turkey neck. Plus in that moment you see his skin properly and it doesn't have edgy bits or mask lines.
The darker lines could be for any number of reasons. Could be due to colour grading, could be due to things being originally recorded on HDR cameras then packed into a format which doesn't natively support HDR resulting in "hard" shadows - and there isn't many shadows in studio lighting. This one we won't know for sure.
The video you linked is actually the same video I watched which lead me to believe it is not a mask.
Watch the opening 10 seconds again, when Fauci is being introduced. He clearly swallows and you see the skin on his neck tighten, then go back to rest just over his collar. Turkey neck. Plus in that moment you see his skin properly and it doesn't have edgy bits or mask lines.
The darker lines could be for any number of reasons. Could be due to colour grading, could be due to things being originally recorded on HDR cameras then packed into a format which doesn't natively support HDR resulting in "hard" shadows - and there isn't many shadows in studio lighting. This one we won't know for sure.