Top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci on Wednesday pushed back against President Donald Trump’s endorsement of a viral video featuring fringe doctors—including one who believes in demon sperm and “alien DNA”—peddling coronavirus disinformation, saying the only “recourse” is to be “very clear
Over the past couple of days, the president has repeatedly praised a group of doctors—backed by right-wing political group Tea Party Patriots—who claim controversial anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine is a coronavirus “cure” and that masks are unnecessary. Video of the doctors’ “summit,” hosted by far-right digital outlet Breitbart, was eventually removed from social-media platforms for pushing dangerous COVID-19 misinformation, sparking conservative cries of censorship.
“The only thing that I can do, Andrea, is do what I’ve done all along, consistently, is that you look at the scientific data and the evidence,” Fauci replied. “And the scientific data, the cumulative data on trials, clinical trials that were valid, namely clinically trials that were randomized and controlled in the proper way, all of those trials showed consistently that hydroxychloroquine is not effective in the treatment of coronavirus disease or COVID-19.
“Now I see today in the newspapers in Kenya, warnings in columns to tell people don’t believe the video,” she added. “If this can be transmitted around the country—and globally—so rapidly, don’t we have to do more to stop these dangerous conspiracies from misleading people?” “So when there’s a video out there from a bunch of people spouting something that isn’t true, the only recourse you have is to be very, very clear in presenting the scientific data that essentially contradicts that,” Fauci concluded, directly rebuking the video.
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