It was not possible, he said, “because there was a lot of pushback about shutting things down.”
that President Donald Trump ignored warnings about the escalating coronavirus outbreak starting in January, Dr. Anthony Fauci said in a CNN interview Sunday morning that lives would have been saved if the country had acted sooner.report, Dr. Fauci and other health officials urged Trump to implement social distancing in mid-February; the president did not encourage the public to practice social distancing until March 16.
Although he took steps to limit travel from China and Europe, Trump was reluctant to initiate social distancing and public shut downs because his “business friends” said such steps would endanger the economy. On Sunday, Dr, Fauci was careful to not criticize his boss, but noted that it was difficult to implement those recommendations because “there was a lot of pushback about shutting things down back then.”
“You can logically say if you had a process that was ongoing and you started mitigation earlier, you could have saved lives,” he said. “No one is going to deny that.” When asked to compare the progression of the pandemic in the United States to that in South Korea, which saw its first COVID-19 case around the same time but has one-fiftieth the amount of cases today, Dr. Fauci said that the comparison was not a fair one, as South Korea had greater capacity to take action to prevent the spread.Trump was not the only official to resist shutting down public life.
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