Tag Archives: Anthony Fauci

Fauci: “We’re Not There Yet” On Reopening Economy

Politico reports: Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, said Tuesday the U.S. does not yet have the critical testing and tracing procedures needed to begin reopening the nation’s economy, adding a dose of caution to increasingly optimistic projections from the White House. “We have to have something in place that is efficient and that we can rely …

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Fauci Walks Back Criticism Of Trump’s Delay [VIDEO]

“The first and only time that Dr. Birx and I went in and formally made a recommendation to the president to actually have a ‘shutdown’ in the sense of strong mitigation, we discussed it. Obviously there would be concerns by some, and in fact, that might have some negative consequences. Nonetheless, the president listened to the recommendation. And went to …

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Michael Savage: Anthony Fauci Has Gone “Full Nazi”

“I don’t want to talk about Dr. Death. I don’t want to talk about Fauci goes full Nazi with immunity cards for all. Fauci wants us to have immunity cards. I don’t think he should really be taken in the wrong way on that. “I don’t think he’s got a thing for the Obergruppenführer within. I don’t think Obergruppenführer Herr …

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White House: Trump Has No Plan To Fire Anthony Fauci

The New York Daily News reports: President Trump won’t fire White House coronavirus task force member Anthony Fauci despite sharing a tweet with the hashtag #FireFauci, a spokesman said on Monday. “This media chatter is ridiculous – President Trump is not firing Dr. Fauci,” said White House principal deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley. “The President’s tweet clearly exposed media attempts …

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Trump Retweets Nutbag’s Call To Fire Anthony Fauci

The New York Times reports: President Trump publicly signaled his frustration on Sunday with Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the federal government’s top infectious disease expert, after the doctor said more lives could have been saved from the coronavirus if the country had been shut down earlier. Mr. Trump reposted a Twitter message that said “Time to #FireFauci” as he rejected …

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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 …

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Trump Suggested Letting COVID “Wash Over” Country

The Washington Post reports: During one task force meeting in the Situation Room last month, Trump turned to Fauci and challenged him. It was the day the administration was adding Ireland and the United Kingdom to its travel restrictions, and Trump wanted to understand why talk of “herd immunity” — allowing the coronavirus to sweep a nation largely unchecked, with …

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Fauci Hopes For “Degree Of Normality” By Nov Election

The Hill reports: “I would hope that by November we would have things under such control that we could have a real degree of normality. That’s my interest and my job as a public health person,” Fauci, a leading member of the Trump administration’s coronavirus task force, said Friday on MSNBC. The remarks come as Democrats and Republicans feud over …

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Anthony Fauci: COVID Antibody Tests Are “Days Away”

The Associated Press reports: The top U.S. infectious disease official says coronavirus antibody tests are just days away. Dr. Anthony Fauci says at the last White House coronavirus task force meeting, the people responsible for developing, validating and disseminating the tests were saying “a rather large number of tests” will be available within a week. Fauci told CNN on Friday …

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Anthony Fauci: We Shouldn’t Shake Hands Ever Again

“When you gradually come back, you don’t jump into it with both feet. You say, ‘What are the things you could still do and still approach normal?’ One of them is absolute compulsive hand-washing. “The other is you don’t ever shake anybody’s hands. I don’t think we should ever shake hands ever again, to be honest with you. “Not only …

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Limbaugh Attacks Fauci As “Hillary Clinton Sympathizer”

“Jonathan Karl yesterday brought in a China-sympathetic reporter to that press briefing. That China reporter in there from Phoenix TV — that’s a Chinese-dominated company — Jonathan Karl of ABC, he runs the White House Correspondents’ Association, so he brought the reporter in there. And I don’t know if anybody noticed it, but little Doctor — Dr. Fauci, at the …

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Axios: Epic WH Blowup Over Efficacy Of Malaria Drug

Axios reports: The White House coronavirus task force had its biggest fight yet on Saturday, pitting economic adviser Peter Navarro against infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci. At issue: How enthusiastically should the White House tout the prospects of an antimalarial drug to fight COVID-19? This drama erupted into an epic Situation Room showdown. Trump’s coronavirus task force gathered in the …

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Fauci: It’s “False” To Say The Pandemic Is Under Control

The Hill reports: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci said Sunday that it would be “a false statement” to say the government has the coronavirus pandemic under control. “We are struggling to get it under control, and that’s the issue that’s at hand right now,” Fauci said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” Sunday. Trump has several …

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Anthony Fauci Rips States Without Lockdown Orders

NBC News reports: Dr. Anthony Fauci suggested today that all Americans should be under a stay-at-home order to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, and that all states should be operating under the same guidelines. “I don’t understand why that’s not happening,” Fauci, a member of the White House coronavirus task force and director of the National Institute of Allergy …

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Threats Prompt Stepped Up Security For Anthony Fauci

The Washington Post reports: Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-diseases expert and the face of the U.S. response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, is facing growing threats to his personal safety, prompting the government to step up his security, according to people familiar with the matter. The concerns include threats as well as unwelcome communications from fervent admirers, according …

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Fauci “Argued Strongly” Against Trump’s Easter Plan

The Hill reports: Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, said Monday that the White House coronavirus task force aggressively lobbied President Trump to extend social-distancing guidelines another month as the U.S. grapples with the fallout of the novel coronavirus pandemic. “We felt that if we prematurely pulled back, we would only form an acceleration or rebound of …

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Fauci: US Could See 100,000 To 200,000 Virus Deaths

ABC News reports: The U.S. government’s foremost infection disease expert says the United States could experience more than 100,000 deaths and millions of infections from the coronavirus pandemic. Dr. Anthony Fauci, speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, offered his prognosis as the federal government weighs rolling back guidelines on social distancing in areas that have not been …

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MAGA Media Escalates Attacks On Dr. Anthony Fauci

The New York Times reports: Dr. Fauci — the administration’s most outspoken advocate of emergency measures to fight the coronavirus outbreak — has become the target of an online conspiracy theory that he is mobilizing to undermine the president. That fanciful claim has spread across social media, fanned by a right-wing chorus of Mr. Trump’s supporters, even as Dr. Fauci …

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US Virus Deaths Top 1000 As New Cases Skyrocket

NBC News reports: The United States has reached a grim milestone as the number of deaths linked to coronavirus passed 1,000 in the country on Thursday, according to a count by NBC News. The number of reported deaths associated with the disease in the U.S. was at least 1,001 as of Thursday morning, according to that count, and there have …

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Cultist MAGA Sites Take Aim At Dr. Anthony Fauci

Politico reports: To a vocal minority of right-wing blogs and pro-Trump pundits, Fauci is the embodiment of the establishment forces that have been arrayed against the president since he came to Washington. And those voices are getting louder amid rumblings about Fauci’s standing with Trump as the president itches to get the economy restarted in the coming weeks. “A Deep-State …

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