Anthony Fauci
Anthony FauciOvernight Healthcare – Fauci: Lack of Facts ‘Probably’ Costs Lives in Fight Against Coronavirus | CDC Changes COVID-19 Vaccine Guidelines to Rare Mix of Pfizer, Moderna Shots | Chaos in Senate threatens to slow down Biden’s agenda Fauci furious with threats to family Poll: Many voters say coronavirus vaccine rollout is slower than expected MORE, the federal government’s leading infectious disease expert, said it was “chilling” to see the pressure exerted on scientists during the Trump administration by officials who wanted to project rosy coverage of the coronavirus.
Fauci talked about “The Rachel Maddow
Rachel Anne Maddow A Vaccine, a Burrito and More: 7 Lighter Memorable Moments from 2020 Klobuchar: Trump ‘Tries to Burn This Country on His Way Out’ DC Attorney General: Ivanka Trump ‘Very Misleading’ About Lawsuit MORE Show on Friday night that officials under Trump are pressuring government scientists in what he said was an unusual dynamic compared to his work under previous governments, describing “a situation where science was distorted and / or rejected.”
“I didn’t want to get into conflict with the president because I have a lot of respect for the office of president, but there were conflicts at different levels with different people and different organizations and a lot of pressure was put on things that are just not compatible with science. , “he said.
“It’s a real deviation,” he added later. This is my seventh administration, Rachel, and I advise governments and presidents on both sides of the aisle, Republicans and Democrats, people with different ideologies, and even with differences in ideology, there has never been such a real insult to science . So it was really an anomaly that I haven’t seen in nearly 40 years doing this. So it’s just one of those things that’s horrifying when you see it happening. “
The comments are just the latest given by Fauci, indicating he was relieved to work under President Biden.
The public health expert became an early face of the Trump administration’s response to the pandemic, but he was eventually pushed out of the spotlight after taking positions that contradicted White House reports that the virus would ‘go away’.
“I can tell you that I don’t enjoy being in a situation where I contradict the president at all, so it was really something you didn’t really think you could really say and that wouldn’t have any repercussions whatsoever, Fauci said at a press conference this week.
“The idea that you can come here and talk about what you know, what the evidence and the science is, and know that that is – let the science speak – it’s kind of a liberating feeling.”
Fauci said that despite conflicts that agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) faced Trump’s White House, many officials opposed the pressure placed on them.
“People were unfortunately affected. But at the same time I have to tell you that some may have been, but many people were not, ”he said. “There were a lot of people in the CDC and the FDA who really suffered from that.”