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WORRIED ABOUT WINTER: – You couldn’t be worse positioned, says US infection control expert Anthony Fauci in an interview Saturday. Photo: PISCINA / REUTERS
Trump cares more about the economy than public health, says American infection control expert Anthony Fauci in a rare open interview.
It is in the US newspaper Washington Post where Anthony Fauci makes the statements about the handling of the pandemic by the Trump campaign.
In the interview, he is asked what he thinks about the differences in how the two presidential candidates have handled the infection.
– The Biden campaign takes it seriously from a public health perspective. Trump sees it from a different perspective, Fauci said.
When asked what perspective it was, Fauci replied: “The economy and the reopening of the country.”
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Anthony Fauci has contradicted the president several times before, but rarely has he made such critical comments against Trump’s handling of the corona infection that he now does.
However, in mid-October, he took to the media and said that a Trump ad misquoted him as the ad claimed he supported Trump.
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– It is not possible to be worse positioned
America’s leading infection control expert is very concerned about winter.
– We have to expect a lot of pain. This is not a good situation, he told the newspaper.
– All the stars point incorrectly when we enter the fall and winter season, when people gather indoors. You can’t be in a worse position, he said of the moment America is stepping in now.
Fauci is a member of the White House crown task force, a group he says has met less and less and has less and less influence over President Donald Trump’s decisions on the pandemic.
“Right now, the focus on public health has dropped dramatically within the task force,” he told the Washington Post.
– Has no sense
Fauci himself has not met with Trump since early October. He attends phone meetings with White House staff, but physically stays away.
– For all the infections there, he explained to the newspaper.
The only health adviser Trump is listening to at the moment, according to Fauci, is Scott Atlas. Atlas has called for the reopening of the United States without restrictions.
– I have big problems with that guy. He’s a smart guy who talked about things I don’t think he knows. When you analyze what he’s talking about, it doesn’t make sense, Fauci said.
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The tone is not good between the American president and Fauci. Two weeks ago, Trump called his health adviser “a disaster.”
“People are tired of listening to Fauci and all these idiots,” Trump is said to have said in a conference call with campaign staff.
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Criticized for doing politics
The interview with Fauci comes at a time when the United States has admitted more than nine million infected, and the day after researchers from Stanford University discovered that Trump’s election rallies likely led to 30,000 infected with the coronavirus. and 700 to death.
The White House rejects Fauci’s criticism.
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“Fauci knows that the dangers of the coronavirus today are dramatically less than a few months ago,” said Judd Deere, a spokesman for the White House.
“It is unacceptable and violates all the rules to participate in politics three days before the elections,” he told the newspaper.
