“Particularly when you are in a situation of almost being in a crisis with the number of cases and hospitalizations and deaths that we have – when you start talking about things that do not make sense medically and scientifically, that clearly does not help,” Fauci, the advisor Chief Medical Officer of President Joe Biden said on CNN’s “New Day” on Friday.
Asked by CNN’s John Berman, whether last year’s lack of candor and facts in some cases cost lives, Fauci said: “You know, most likely yes.”
He warned that “it doesn’t help” when “you are starting to walk paths that are not based on any science”, adding that he does not want to reformulate the ways in which the Trump administration has moved away from science.
“If things go wrong, don’t point a finger, but fix them. And make everything we do based on science and evidence,” he told reporters on Thursday during a briefing at the White House.
Fauci admitted on Thursday that he was “uncomfortable” when things like hydroxychloroquine were promoted as treatments for Covid-19 when they were not based on facts, and that he “takes no pleasure in being in a situation of contradiction with the president” .
He called it “liberating feeling” now being able to “talk about what you know, what the evidence is, what science is”, without fear of repercussions.