Anthony Fauci
Anthony FauciOvernight Health Care – Fauci: Lack of facts ‘probably’ cost lives in the fight against coronavirus | CDC changes the orientation of the COVID-19 vaccine to allow the rare mix of Pfizer and Moderna injections | Senate chaos threatens to slow down Biden Fauci’s agenda enraged by threats to the family Poll: Plurality of voters says coronavirus vaccine launch slower than expected MORE, the federal government’s leading infectious disease expert, said it was “scary” to see the pressure exerted on scientists during the Trump administration by officials seeking to project optimistic messages about the coronavirus.
Fauci told about “The Rachel Maddow
Rachel Anne MaddowA vaccine, a Burrito and more: 7 lightest and most memorable moments of 2020 Klobuchar: Trump ‘trying to burn this country on its way out’ DC Attorney General: Ivanka Trump ‘highly misleading’ about process deposition MORE Show “on Friday night that officials under Trump led pressure on government scientists in what he said was an unusual dynamic compared to his work in previous administrations, describing” a situation where science has been distorted and / or rejected ”.
“I didn’t want to conflict with the president because I have a lot of respect for the presidency, but there were conflicts at different levels with different people and different organizations and a lot of pressure being put on to do things that are simply not compatible with science,” he said .
“It’s a real freak,” he added later. “This is my seventh government, Rachel, and I have been advising governments and presidents on both sides of the corridor, Republicans and Democrats, people with different ideologies, and even with ideological differences, there has never been this real affront to science. So it was really a freak that I haven’t seen in almost 40 years since I did that. So it’s just one of those things that is scary when you see it happen. “
The comments are only Fauci’s latest data, indicating his relief at working under President Biden.
The public health expert became one of the first faces of the Trump administration’s response to the pandemic, but ended up being pushed out of the spotlight after adopting postures that clashed with the White House’s message that the virus would “disappear”.
“I can say that I have no pleasure in being in a situation of contradiction with the president, so it was really something that you didn’t feel you could really say and there would be no repercussions on that,” Fauci said at a news conference this week .
“The idea that you can come out here and talk about what you know, what the evidence is and what science is, and knowing what it is – let science talk – is a somewhat liberating feeling.”
Fauci said that despite the conflicts that agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) faced the Trump White House, many officials resisted the pressures applied to them.
“People were influenced, unfortunately. But I have to tell you, while some may have been, not many people, ”he said. “There were a lot of people at the CDC and the FDA who were really suffering from this.”