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Epidemiologist Anthony Fauci, director of the US Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and one of the world’s leading experts on the COVID-19 pandemic, has openly and harshly criticized US President Donald Trump for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic crisis. , in an interview with the Washington Times.
“It just came to our notice then. We are not in a good situation,” Fauci said in this interview. The doctor added that the United States will enter “a long and potentially deadly winter,” with an unprepared government unable to make difficult decisions.
“All the stars are misaligned, in the conditions in which we enter the cold season, in which we will have people who will gather in closed spaces. I couldn’t be in a worse situation than that. “
Fauci said the United States now needs to adopt a “sudden change” of direction, both in terms of public health policy and social behavior.
The U.S. chief epidemiologist said the country could exceed 100,000 infections a day and the death toll could rise in the coming weeks.
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On Friday, October 30, the United States set a new negative record: 98,000 new infections with the new coronavirus. As the number of hospitalizations rises, so does the number of deaths: More than 1,000 people died of COVID-19 on Wednesday and Thursday, bringing the total number of pandemic deaths in the country to 230,000.
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has ridiculed those concerned about the growing danger of infections at election rallies despite rising illnesses.
“COVID-19, COVID, COVID, COVID,” Trump said at a rally, complaining that the press was paying too much attention to the pandemic.
At another election rally, Trump said American doctors were intentionally reporting several new COVID cases to get money.
Trump’s top medical adviser is a radiologist who says the virus should be allowed to circulate freely between people.
Fauci says the US authorities’ response to the pandemic is wrong: The White House is now almost entirely focused on vaccine production, which it sees as a kind of “silver bullet” that will instantly end the pandemic, even if it is. In reality, it will take months, at best, to successfully vaccinate tens of millions of people.
Fauci noted that the White House think tank that is handling the COVID-19 crisis is now meeting less and less and having less and less influence over Donald Trump.
Additionally, the group is now led by Scott Atlas, a neuroradiologist whom Trump has adopted as his top adviser. Atlas believes that the virus must be allowed to circulate freely among humans and that the economy must be fully reopened without restrictions.
This is the man Trump accepts around him and with whom the President of the United States currently has regular meetings.
“I have a big problem with this guy,” Fauci said of Scott Atlas. “He’s a smart guy who talks about things that I think he has no idea, no knowledge, no experience,” Fauci said of Trump’s current medical adviser.
Trump simply turned Fauci into an “idiot.”
The warnings made over time by Fauci have enraged Donald Trump.
“People are tired of listening to Fauci and all the other idiots, all these idiots who are not right” (Trump, at an election rally in October)
Fauci recalled an episode in recent months when he and Deborah Birx, coordinator of the White House COVID-19 think tank, decided to send a message to Trump about the pandemic.
“Suddenly, the message didn’t get through, because it didn’t like (the Trump administration), it didn’t agree with the measures they wanted to take. They needed a medical message to confirm their views, “Fauci said, adding that Birx has not been seen around Trump since.
Recently, the chief epidemiologist of the United States, Dr. Anthony Fauci, declared that “it is time that masks were mandatory.” The statement came in the context in which the pandemic shows no signs of slowing down in this country, the latest report showing the highest number of infections since the start of the pandemic.
Editor: Mihnea Lazăr
