Posted on 03/25/2020 11:49:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In the past 24 hours, Dr. Anthony Fauci has said there is no foundational difference between himself and President Trump in how to deal with the government's response to COVID-19, that the president has never over-ruled his recommendations, that he wished the media would stop trying to pit him against the president and, now, we learn that he would prescribe hydroxychloroquine to a patient if he were treating them for coronavirus.
One of the most despicable political sideshows of the American media's failed coverage of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic is the endless and relentless insistence that there is some kind of huge disagreement and even hostility between President Trump and Dr. Fauci, the man he inserted as one of the point players in his coronavirus task force.
The false reporting began in late February when the task force was first formed. The New York Times reported on Feb. 27 that communications with media outlets regarding the government's response to the outbreak would be coordinated through the vice president's office, a fairly common move when a cross-departmental task force is formed.
This was interpreted by the White House press corps that Fauci was being "muzzled." NBC News extrapolated The Times article into the despicable headline "Is the White House starting to censor public-health officials?" Two days later, at a press briefing coordinated by President Trump, NBC News attacked the president and accused him of silencing the good doctor who happened to be standing next to him.
"I'm just going to ask you directly about this with regards to the flow of information, from the very beginning, you received a lot of criticism regarding that," asked an NBC reporter. "In particular, about Dr. Anthony Fauci. He is well-renowned in contagious diseases and there were reports out there that he was being muzzled. Can you tell us that this widely-respected expert Dr. Fauci will have every opportunity to tell us the truth?"
See how that works? Trump can't be trusted with telling us the truth... will he let Fauci tell us the truth?
Trump stepped away, after correctly characterizing the reporter as "very dishonest" and allowed Fauci to address it directly. "I've never been muzzled and I've been doing this since Reagan," Dr. Fauci responded. "That was a real misrepresentation of what happened."
But, the Washington, D.C., parlor game of trying to sew dissension and chaos within a White House continued on a daily basis.
Yesterday, Fauci (who, we had been recently told, was muzzled yet again) went on a bit of a media blitz. He told WMAL radio in Washington, D.C. that the president was doing a great job, that there wasn't any fundamental difference in the foundational principals in attacking the virus and that he wished the media would stop pitting him against the president.
And, on AM 990 in Philadelphia, he talked with Townhall columnist and morning host Chris Stigall about the very real hope in the hydroxychloroquine drug that has been the buzz recently.
"If you're a doctor listening to me right now and a patient with coronavirus feels like they want to try that," Stigall asked, "and you're their doctor, you're not Anthony Fauci the guy running the coronavirus task force, would you say 'alright, we'll give it a whirl'?"
"Yeah, of course, particularly if people have no other option," Fauci said. "These drugs are approved drugs for other reasons. They're anti-malaria drugs, and they're drugs against certain autoimmune diseases like lupus. Physicians throughout the country can prescribe that in an off-label way. Which means they can write it for something it was not approved for."
This blows away the newest, fake non-controversy between Fauci and the president that he is unhappy that the president announced the possibility that hydroxychloroquine could provide a treatment option for patients suffering from COVID-19. Of course, there needs to be further testing on the efficacy of this drug and this treatment, the president has always acknowledged that and so has Fauci, he did so in the interview with Stigall. (Listen to the entire interview below.)
But, when pressed on the issue in the most fundamental way, "Would you, as a doctor, prescribe this for your patient?" Fauci said "yes."
Do you see this reported anywhere? And why not?
In the face of a global pandemic, the media couldn't possibly have a day go by without trying to bring down President Trump. The priority is to drum up some kind of invisible drama for political editors, writers and producers to latch onto instead of providing sober, contextualized data for their readers and viewers. They don't know how to report on a pandemic, only on a special counsel investigation or impeachment. That's what they were hired to do. It's all they know.
So, in the face of a public health crisis and a government task force focused on stopping the spread of a virus, they go to their regular playbook. Use anonymous leaks from people hostile to the president to sew dissension, division, and mistrust. That kind of destructive political journalism will win you Pulitzers on a normal day in Washington. But, these are not normal days.
CLICK ON THE ABOVE LINK TO LISTEN TO THE INTERVIEW WITH DR. ANTHONY FAUCI...
Another MSM narrative destroyed!
God I hate them so.
That speaks well of Dr. Fauci.
He’s smart enough to realize it when Trump turns out to be right. And big enough to admit it.
This is like an echo of the infamous interview with Jordan Peterson and the feisty British newswoman.
She: “You’ve said women are not as good as men.”
Peterson: “I ‘ve never said anything remotely like that.”
She: “So, then, you are saying that women are not as good as men?”
Well he will be arrested for doing so in Nevada and Ohio.
as a poster on another site correctly stated- Any state that is withholding this drug to patients is akin to someone withholding water from a man dying of thirst-
I remember how when I had foot surgery my doctor told me to stay off my foot for eight weeks. By the sixth week I couldn’t stand it any longer and was hobbling around despite the doctor’s order.
Dr. Fauci is the family doctor who tells you that you need to go home, rest, and take it easy. President Trump is your inner voice that tells you that you can’t rest because you have all these things to do. They balance each other.
Someone has had a heart to heart talk with the good Dr and he has seen the light.
Hey Fauci, you will never “overrule” Trump.
He is President. You are not.
Now can those who are fixated on Dr. Fauci please shut TF up on here?
CHLOROQUINE has not been availavbe, stocked in pharmacies for decades. The effective drug, hydroxychloroquine,is an effective drug for Coronavirus as used outside of the US. In the US, hydroxychloroquine is available in the US for use on Rh Arthritris, Systemic Lupus Erythematosis, Malaria, and a couple more. Pharmacies and their suppliers in states are now rationing hydroxychloroquine so patients who have needed the drug for their non-viral diseases do not have their supplies of medication availability diminished, stopped.
Dr. Fauci’s focus on chloroquine as it has not been available since Plaquenil (hydroxychloroquiine) replaced chloroquine after the V. Nam war. Dr. Fauci knows this and is totally disingenuous in recommending chloroquine which is not available in the US.
Chloroquine is available in China, so they use it there. S. Korea, uses Plaquenil (hydroxychloroquine) as they do not have chloroquine along with the US.
Plaquenil (hydroxychloroquine) is a better drug than chloroquine.
The problem is not Pres. Trump. The problem is Dr. Fauci. He should be replaced. The US public needs hydroxychloroquine and its production should be increased. The UK refuses to export hydroxychloroquine to the US. Focusing on chloroquine is a disingenuous gambit by Dr. Fauci.
Call your pharmacy as I did and find that chloroquine is on “back order”, or that it has not been stocked for decades.
CHLOROQUINE has not been availavbe, stocked in pharmacies for decades. The effective drug, hydroxychloroquine,is an effective drug for Coronavirus as used outside of the US. In the US, hydroxychloroquine is available in the US for use on Rh Arthritris, Systemic Lupus Erythematosis, Malaria, and a couple more. Pharmacies and their suppliers in states are now rationing hydroxychloroquine so patients who have needed the drug for their non-viral diseases do not have their supplies of medication availability diminished, stopped.
Dr. Fauci’s focus on chloroquine as it has not been available since Plaquenil (hydroxychloroquiine) replaced chloroquine after the V. Nam war. Dr. Fauci knows this and is totally disingenuous in recommending chloroquine which is not available in the US.
Chloroquine is available in China, so they use it there. S. Korea, uses Plaquenil (hydroxychloroquine) as they do not have chloroquine along with the US.
Plaquenil (hydroxychloroquine) is a better drug than chloroquine.
The problem is not Pres. Trump. The problem is Dr. Fauci. He should be replaced. The US public needs hydroxychloroquine and its production should be increased. The UK refuses to export hydroxychloroquine to the US. Focusing on chloroquine is a disingenuous gambit by Dr. Fauci.
Call your pharmacy as I did and find that chloroquine is on “back order”, or that it has not been stocked for decades.
After Easter...let's get back to work, enough of the sniffling, pearl clutchers running the show with their pandemic hysteria. Nice try liberal elites. You are still going to lose in November.
Oh, brother!
He’s smart enough to realize it when Trump turns out to be right. And big enough to admit it.
That's not the tune he was singing yesterday. President Trump bulldozed over him and his cadre of lawsuit-scared bureaucrats, and now -- as the numbers come in -- he realizes he's going to look like a fool.
“Nice try liberal elites. You are still going to lose in November.”
I agree, but they will find something else by then.
Scary to think what it might be or how it could top this pandemic scare.
so for Americans, hillary’s-Fauci purports that
the data is “anecdotal”.
for his own family and friends, OHQC is curative.
What if there were a very available treatment for the Corona Virus that was almost entirely effective? Then the nation could come out of lock down. The country could continue on the way to prosperity. People would still have jobs. The democrats could no longer use the crisis as a means to push there agenda and control the population. Trump would be a Hero. He would easily win re-election.
It is no wonder that the democrats and their lapdog media would do everything in their power to keep that treatment from being used.
And in NYS outside of a Cuomo approved study.
i agree
The left has been trying to say that he and Trump disagree. What will they do now?
I know they hang on Trump’s every word, looking for something to hang him on. They don’t give a rat’s tail about the people. They just want to get rid of Trump. No matter what.
I’m betting they make something up real quick - Trump’s approval is going up, and the dems are creaming their depends.
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