WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) - President Donald Trump's advisers undercut the nation's top infectious disease expert, Dr Anthony Fauci, over the weekend, anonymously providing details to various news outlets about statements he had made early in the coronavirus outbreak that they said were inaccurate.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's advisers undercut the nation's top infectious disease expert, Dr Anthony Fauci, over the weekend, anonymously providing details to various news outlets about statements he had made early in the coronavirus outbreak that they said were inaccurate.
And it came just days after the White House called school reopening guidelines released by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention overly restrictive, part of a pattern of the administration trying to sideline recommendations that could slow the reopening of the economy, which Trump views as vital to his flailing reelection effort.
An official told The Post that several other officials were concerned about how often Fauci had been wrong. It was an extraordinary move for the White House to provide news organisations with such a document about a health official who works for the administration and retains a high level of public trust.A White House official who spoke on the condition of anonymity insisted that the administration was not trying to discredit Fauci, whom it acknowledged is an expert, but rather remind members of the public of his record and that it should be listening to a range of doctors.
In an interview on a podcast with FiveThirtyEight.com last week, Fauci said that a few states had the virus under control but that"as a country, when you compare us to other countries, I don't think you can say we're doing great. I mean, we're just not." And in a White House where almost everything is treated in terms of how it relates to Trump, staff frustrations with Fauci have run high for months.
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