Anthony Fauci
Anthony Fauci Fauci was concerned that people would do “dangerous and foolish” things after Trump suggested injecting disinfectants. spring | Moderna says vaccine is effective on variants, but test booster shot | California lifts regional stay-at-home order MORE, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, said in an interview with CNN Monday night that he was concerned about how Americans would react after President Trump
Donald TrumpSchumer: Trial against impeachment will be swift, not many witnesses needed Nurse to be tapped by Biden as acting surgeon general: Schumer report calls on Biden to declare climate emergency MORE suggested that people could inject disinfectants as a way to treat the coronavirus.
After a presentation in April by a Department of Homeland Security official on the effects of sunlight and disinfectants on the virus, Trump turned to his own officials during a press conference and mused about whether disinfectants could be used to treat human bodies.
“I see the sanitizer where it turns it off in a minute,” Trump said. “One minute. And is there any way we can do something like that, inject or almost cleanse inside?”
Fauci said he and others tried to discredit the idea as soon as possible.
‘You will have people who will hear that from the president and they will start doing dangerous and foolish things, and that is why those of us who weren’t there immediately said,’ This is something you have to do. do not.’ Be very explicit. The (US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) came out the next day, I think, and posted one of their publications, “Don’t do this,” Fauci told CNN’s Erin Burnett.
Trump later said the comment was sarcastic.
Fauci told CNN that the former president was given a combination of “good and bad information” amid the ongoing pandemic.
“Unfortunately, the concept of anecdotal as opposed to science-driven information seemed to prevail over that,” Fauci said.
“ I think if you look at the backlash I got from people in the White House, including the president, about hydroxychloroquine was one of the reasons I felt it was essential to me, not in a confrontational way, I had not much fun in it. from contradicting the president, but I had to get out to maintain my own integrity, but also to stand up for the knowledge that the data did not show what they claimed, ”continued Fauci.
Fauci has denied the effectiveness of the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of COVID-19. Trump has hailed the drug as a “miracle” amid the pandemic.