“I just said, ‘Oh my God for free.’ I could see what’s going to happen, “Fauci told CNN’s Erin Burnett on” Out Front “about Trump’s suggestion.
“You are going to have people who are going to hear this from the president and are going to start doing dangerous and foolish things, which is why, immediately, those of us who were not there said, ‘This is something you should not do.’ Be very explicit. The (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States) came out, I think, the next day and put in one of its publications, ‘Don’t do this.’ “
At a press conference at the White House in April, Trump reflected on whether disinfectants could be used to treat the virus in humans – asking if there was “a way for us to do something like this, by internal injection or near cleaning”.
He later falsely claimed that he was being sarcastic and that he was leading authorities to examine the effect of the hand sanitizer – not by ingestion or injection. But the comments prompted cleaning companies and state health officials to warn of the dangers of ingesting them.
Fauci recalled on Monday night that Trump was receiving a mixture of “good information and bad information” about the pandemic.
“Unfortunately, the concept of anecdotal information as opposed to science-based information seemed to prevail,” he said. “I did not take much pleasure in contradicting the president, but I had to leave just to maintain my integrity, but also to defend the science that the data did not show what they said.”
Fauci, who was part of Trump’s coronavirus task force and endured the former president’s public scorn, spoke in recent days about his difficult relationship with the last government.
At the White House last week, he praised President Joe Biden’s approach to the pandemic, explaining: “The idea that you can come up here and talk about what you know, what the evidence is, what science is – let science to speak. It’s a somewhat liberating feeling. “
This is a last-minute story and will be updated.