jehurey 3,238 Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 Quote Fauci: Trump administration's Covid strategy 'very likely did' cost lives “When you start talking about things that make no sense medically and no sense scientifically, that clearly is not helpful,” said Fauci. By BEN LEONARD 01/22/2021 11:44 AM EST The Trump administration’s lack of candor and habitual breaks with scientific guidance in its pandemic response “very likely did” cost lives, Anthony Fauci said Friday morning. “When you start talking about things that make no sense medically and no sense scientifically, that clearly is not helpful,” Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told CNN Friday. “There's no secret, we've had a lot of divisiveness, we've had facts that were very, very clear, that were questioned,” Fauci said. “People were not trusting what health officials were saying. There was great divisiveness, masking became a political issue.” Former President Donald Trump faced significant criticism over the final year of his presidency for his pandemic response, which strayed often from the guidance of his own administration's health officials and veered often into bizarre territory. From the pandemic's early stages, Trump regularly downplayed the risk Covid-19 posed to Americans and predicted often that the U.S. would soon have the virus beat, even as cases spiked around the country. He resisted the best practices recommended by his own public health team, declining to wear a mask in public and holding large-scale rallies, both indoors and outdoors, with thousands of supporters. Trump frequently touted the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for Covid-19 despite there being no evidence of it being effective. At one point last spring, he suggested Americans should inject themselves with disinfectants to combat the virus. Fauci's regular appearances at White House coronavirus briefings made him a household name throughout the pandemic, but his relationship with Trump quickly soured as the NIAID chief refused to fall in line with the then-president's inconsistent and at-times dangerous Covid-19 rhetoric. Trump called Fauci an idiot and a “disaster,” saying “if we listened to him, we’d have 700,000 [or] 800,000 deaths.” Trump accused Fauci and other health officials of exaggerating the pandemic’s severity and criticized officials for saying early on that masks weren’t necessary. As the pandemic wore on, Fauci's appearances at the White House grew increasingly rare, as did contact between the two men. Fauci said in a news conference with White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Thursday that his work with the Biden administration thus far has been "liberating." Fauci has said the Trump administration prevented him from making some media appearances and that the White House hampered the flow of public health information. “You didn't feel you could actually say something and there wouldn't be repercussions about it,” Fauci said in the news conference Thursday. “One of the new things in this administration, is if you don't know the answer, don't guess. Just say you don't know the answer." Fauci said in an interview Thursday that there is “complete transparency” under the Biden administration. What a national tragedy, that Trump was. Link to post Share on other sites
bhytre 2,753 Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 Trump administration, no such thing Link to post Share on other sites
Delita 698 Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 (edited) He must be raging not being able to get an input on any news that’s been released about him. I’m still wondering how he’ll come back. He’s not going away. Hes like a kardashian and needs attention like people need water Edited January 22, 2021 by Delita Link to post Share on other sites
jehurey 3,238 Posted January 22, 2021 Author Share Posted January 22, 2021 1 hour ago, bhytre said: Trump administration, no such thing they're now pretending that Trump didn't existwow, he must've been that bad. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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