Anthony Fauci
Anthony FauciOvernight Health Care: Biden reveals virus plan and asks for patience | Fauci says it is ‘liberating’ to work under Biden | Home to act quickly in relieving COVID-19 Fauci: We are not ‘starting from scratch’ in vaccine distribution Fauci says it is ‘liberating’ to work with Biden MORE on Friday, he said the lack of facts “probably cost” lives over the past year in the country’s efforts to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
In an appearance on CNN, the country’s leading infectious disease specialist was directly asked whether the “lack of candor or facts” contributed to the number of lives lost during the coronavirus pandemic last year.
“You know it probably is,” said Fauci. “You know I don’t want this, John, to be a catchphrase, but I think if you just look at it, you’ll be able to see it when you’re starting to walk paths that aren’t based on any science. This does not help at all, especially when you are in a situation of almost being in crisis with the number of cases and hospitalizations and deaths that we have.
“When you start talking about things that don’t make sense medically and scientifically, it clearly doesn’t help,” he continued.
The lack of candor and facts “probably cost” lives last year, Dr. Fauci
“There is no secret. We had many divisions, we had very, very clear facts, which were questioned. People did not trust what the health authorities said. ” pic.twitter.com/naqYQhvgJK
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President Biden on Thursday unveiled a new national coronavirus strategy that is, in part, designed to “restore confidence in the American people.”
When asked why this was important, Fauci acknowledged that the past year of dealing with the pandemic had been fraught with divisions.
“There is no secret. We had many divisions, we had facts that were very, very clear, which were questioned. People did not trust what the health authorities said, there was a great divide, masks became a political issue.
So, what the president was saying, from the beginning was, let’s restart this. Let everyone enter the same page, trust each other, let science speak. ”
Fauci, which gained national prominence last year as part of the former President Trump
Donald Trump leader Ian swears ‘revenge’ by posting an image similar to former Trump Sanders spokesman: Biden ‘moving away’ from ‘populist offers’ Justice Department to investigate the US attorney’s sudden departure in Atlanta after Trump’s criticisms MOREthe coronavirus task force often found itself at odds with the former president. Trump often downplayed the severity of the virus and publicly clashed with Fauci.
Speaking during a press conference at the White House on Thursday, Fauci said it was “deliverer”To be working in the Biden administration.
There have been 24,632,468 coronavirus infections in the United States since the beginning of the pandemic, according to a Johns Hopkins University. More than 410,000 people died.