Anthony Fauci
Anthony FauciOvernight Health Care – Fauci: lack of facts likely to cost lives in coronavirus battle | CDC changes COVID-19 vaccine line to barely mix Pfizer, Moderna shots | Senate chaos threatens to delay Biden’s agenda Fauci furious over threats to family Poll: Multiple voters say coronavirus vaccine will be delayed longer than expected MORE, the federal government’s leading expert on infectious diseases, said it was ‘cold’ to see the pressure scientists put on during the Trump administration by officials wanting to project rosy messages about the coronavirus.
Fauci tells of “The Rachel Maddow
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‘I did not want to be in conflict with the president because I have a lot of respect for the office of the presidency, but there was conflict on different levels with different people and different organizations and there was a lot of pressure to do things that just did not work with. science is not compatible, ”he said.
“This is a real deviation,” he later added. ‘This is my seventh government, Rachel, and I have advised administrations and presidents on both sides of the aisle, Republicans and Democrats, people with different ideologies and even with ideological differences. There has never been a real insult to science. So it was a distraction that I had not seen it for almost 40 years. So this is just one of the things that gets chilly when you see it happen. ‘
The remarks are just the latest Fauci has given, suggesting 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 accepting views expressed by the White House’s messages that the virus would “disappear”.
“I can tell you that I have no pleasure in contradicting the president, so it was really something you did not feel you could say and that there would be no consequences for it,” Fauci said. said at a press conference this week.
“The idea that you can get up here and talk about what you know, what the evidence and science are, and know it’s it – let science talk – it’s a liberating feeling.”
Fauci said despite conflict facing agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) before the Trump White House, many officials resisted the pressure on them.
“Unfortunately, people were affected. “But I have to tell you that many people were not at the same time,” he said. “There were a lot of people in the CDC and the FDA who really suffered from it.”