Fauci On Trump’s Delayed Response: “It Is What It Is”

Axios reports:

Dr. Anthony Fauci said on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday that “no one is going to deny” that more lives could have been saved during the coronavirus crisis if the Trump administration had implemented social distancing guidelines prior to March.

The New York Times reported Saturday that the administration’s top public health experts, including Fauci, concluded on Feb. 21 that the U.S. would need to move toward aggressive social distancing even if it would disrupt the economy and millions of American lives.

“As I’ve said many times, we look at it from a pure health standpoint,” Fauci said. “We make a recommendation. Often the recommendation is taken. Sometimes it’s not. But it is what it is. We are where we are right now.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci expresses “hopeful… cautious optimism” as signs emerge that the coronavirus curve may have begun to flatten. https://t.co/Y3z65Z1EFy pic.twitter.com/YUfyXKPLdz

— State of the Union (@CNNSotu) April 12, 2020

Dr. Anthony Fauci tells @jaketapper on #CNNSOTU that there is a very real possibility of a Covid-19 rebound in the fallhttps://t.co/BoMpudigt3

— State of the Union (@CNNSotu) April 12, 2020