I really suspect the reason Fauci was not at the press conference is that Trump overruled him and ordered testing of these drugs to begin immediately. Fauci seemed to have an unreasonable aversion to even considering them, when glowing stories of their success were coming in from around the world. Makes me very suspicious of his underlying motives.
He's a career swamp-thing bureaucrat. Simple as that. Trying something new and innovative is not in their DNA.
Fauci was adamant about testing and re-testing and checking the testing and re-testing and then looking at other things like really, really expensive drugs in the making. The guy might know a lot...but common sense is lacking. If it works...use it...we know it has worked. Dosing?? we know about dosing already.
I’m not sure he has ‘underlying motives’.
Fauci is a scientist; and they sometimes have their own professional blind spots.
Unfortunately, we’ve made a sort of ‘god’ of Science (and our narrow, rigid conceptions of it) over the past century or so. It’s hard for people who worship at that altar to...alter.
“Makes me very suspicious of his underlying motives”
I felt that way on the day I heard him downplaying these other drugs. Gilead is spending a lot of money to get its drug out before the community figures out they don’t need the new expensive one.
Fauci loves a crisis.
I was quite elated to NOT see Fauci there!