The outgoing director of the National Institutes of Health says he faced political pressure from Trump and other Republicans to endorse unproven COVID-19 remedies such as hydroxychloroquine and to fire Dr. Fauci.
The outgoing director of the National Institutes of Health said Sunday that he faced political pressure from then-US President Donald Trump and other Republicans to endorse unproven COVID-19 remedies such as hydroxychloroquine and to fire Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
"I have done everything I can to stay out of any kind of political, partisan debates because it is really not a place where medical research belongs," he said."I was not going to compromise scientific principles to just hold onto the job." "Can you imagine a circumstance where the director of the NIH, somebody who believes in science, would submit to political pressures and fire the greatest expert in infectious disease that the world has known, just to satisfy political concerns?" he said.
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