Fauci denied that he ever heard the president “distort” the threat of the coronavirus and maintained that Trump’s presentations to the public were largely in line with discussions he’d had with medical experts
Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, defended President Donald Trump on Wednesday after audio recordings revealed that the president wanted to downplay the severity of the coronavirus early in the pandemic.
Though Trump acknowledged in his Woodward interviews that he understood the severity of the disease, in subsequent public appearances, the president minimized its risks. He declined to don a face mask in public for months and often compared the disease to the flu. He encouraged opening up public spaces, and the U.S. has been an outlier among industrialized nations in the number of cases and deaths from the disease.
Fauci disputed the quotes, saying they were from second-hand sources and not from him. He also said that the internecine drama was distracting from the work the coronavirus task force was doing to fight the pandemic.
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