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NEW YORK: One of the top US government scientists, Anthony Fauci, has issued an urgent request for a change in US policy on the coronavirus, prompting a sharp rebuke from the Trump administration in recent days of a scuffle election campaign.
Fauci, in an interview in the Washington Post on Sunday (November 1), warned that the United States is heading for “a lot of harm” unless it makes an “abrupt change” in health practices.
With many Americans ignorant of safe practices and many hospitals are already under severe stress as cold weather and flu season roll in, “I couldn’t be in a worse position,” Fauci said. “This is not a good situation.”
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The virus has claimed more than 230,000 lives in the United States, which suffered a record number of cases last week, reaching 98,000 on Friday.
Judd Deere, a White House spokesman, offered a scathing response to Fauci.
“It is unacceptable and it is breaking all the rules that Dr. Fauci, a senior member of the President’s Coronavirus Task Force and someone who has praised President Trump’s actions during this pandemic, chooses three days before the election to play. to politics, “he said in a statement.
He attacked Fauci for “choosing to criticize the president in the media and make his political leanings known by praising the president’s opponent.”
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Trump, maintaining a frenzied campaign pace against Democratic challenger Joe Biden, has insisted that the country is “turning around” the virus and has even alleged, without any evidence, that many doctors are inflating the number of virus deaths with profit.
“I mean, our doctors are very smart people,” Trump said at a rally Friday in Michigan. “So what they do is say, ‘I’m sorry, but everyone dies from COVID.’
He suggested, again without evidence, that doctors can bill more in that case.
Fauci, a senior member of the White House coronavirus task force, once briefed Trump on the virus almost daily, but said the president no longer seeks his advice.
In contrast, Fauci had positive things to say about Biden.
The former vice president’s campaign, he told the Post, “is being taken seriously from a public health perspective.”
In mid-October, during a conference call, Trump called Fauci a “disaster.”
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