Washington, United States.
The leading epidemiologist in United States, Anthony Fauci, He confessed to be Thursday Lighting for the departure of the former president Donald Trump, by making it “liberating” to be able to speak clearly about what science says covid-19 without fear a “repercussions”.
Fauci, which is now the main one medical advisor from the new president, Joe Biden, admitted the discomfort generated by the attitude towards pandemia the Trump, repeatedly minimizing the risk coronavirus and repeatedly contradicted the experts’ conclusions.
“The idea that we can come here and talk about what we know, what the scientific evidence, and let science speak, it’s a feeling quite liberatingFauci said at a press conference at the White House.
The greatest expert in infectious diseases of the country that he felt “clearly” “uncomfortable” when, at the press conferences that both attended during part of last year, Trump he said things “not based on fact,” such as his defense of the hydroxychloroquine as a prophylactic against COVID-19.
“I don’t like to be in a situation where I have to contradict the president, And I really didn’t feel like I could say anything and there would be no consequences“he claimed.
Tension with Trump
The tension between Trump and Fauci has grown over the past year, and the White House stopped inviting epidemiologist to hold press conferences about the pandemic.
The former president even threatened sack Fauci, but then he realized he didn’t have the authority to do that, because hers was none political charge, but from officials: that of director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases of the USA (NIAID).
Biden is the seventh president of it U.S to whom he advised Fauci, who has led NIAID since 1984 and one of the most respected figures in the scientific community of the country, one fame which only increased during the pandemic.
In its first press conference under the mandate of Biden, Fauci appreciated that the new president had instructed him “completely transparent and fair “.
“One of the new things in this government is that if we don’t know the answer, we won’t be one assumption. We just say that we don’t know the answer “, he claimed.
During the press conference, Fauci taHe also assured that there is no confirmation that theSouth African ariante from Covid-19 has achieved U.S, while the British are already present in some 20 states.
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Everything indicates that the vaccines that are being administered U.S and protect other countries from these new ones variantsBut if injectables have to be modified, “that process” won’t be too arduous, “he calculated.
The United States is the country in the world most affected by L.a pandemic in absolute terms, by more than 408,000 dead and 24.5 million infections, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Biden presented his strategy to the response to the pandemica, though he acknowledged it will take him months to “ reverse ” the situation he inherited from Trump. EFE