Posted on 04/12/2020 8:25:42 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci said if President Donald Trump had listened to top officials who wanted the shutdown to begin in February, fewer lives would have been lost to the coronavirus pandemic.
Host Jake Tapper asked, “The New York Times reported yesterday that you and other top officials wanted to recommend social and physical distancing guidelines to President Trump as far back as the third week of February, but the administration didn’t announce such guidelines to the American public until March 16th, almost a month later. Why?”
Fauci said, “As I’ve said many times, we look at it from a pure health standpoint. We make a recommendation. Often the recommendation is taken. Sometimes it’s not. But it is what it is. we are where we are right now.”
Tapper said, “Do you think lives could have been saved if social distancing, physical distancing, stay-at-home measures, had started the third week of February instead of mid-March?”
Fauci said, “You know, Jake, again, it’s the what would have, what could have. It’s very difficult to go back and say that. I mean, obviously, you could logically say that if you had a process that was ongoing and you started mitigation earlier, you could have saved lives. Obviously, no one is going to deny that. But what goes into those kinds of decisions is complicated. But you’re right, I mean, obviously, if we had right from the very beginning shut everything down, it may have been a little bit different. But there was a lot of pushback about shutting things down back then.”
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I thought Pence had banned his people from CNN?
A weasel isn’t going to stop being a weasel, no matter what you say.
Fauci is trying to Cover his lying azz for those stupid models
Fauci is his own boss. It looks like Tapper’s question had the expected impact.
Another Newzak narrative, Trump failed to act quickly earlier on when Party of Government Fauci advised him to do so. I wonder what Fauci has to say about what Cuomo and DeBlasio did (or likely did not) do during about the same timeframe?
Ditties to that, what’s going on with him talking to CNN....taped?
Fauci gave an interview in February saying this was a miniscule problem.
FAUCI: Well obviously we have to take it seriously and follow the things the CDC an DHS are doing but this is not a major threat to the people of the United States and this is not something that the citizens of the United States right now should be worried about.
This next job CNN contributor...he is really an ass
What was his first estimate...??????
Fauci establishing the offical dem. talking points: it’s Trump’s fault.
(I’ll bet Fauci never sent a “we all love you” email to Trump, as he did Hillary...)
He’s a treasonous sort of jerk.
Thanks, Pence.
actually if you read the story i think fauci- who i don’t like- explained it well.
these videos will be used and reused for election
by the MSM against the ELECTED PRESIDENT.
Hillary’s and Xi’s little Fauci wins AGAIN.
Okay so here we go. The liberal view is going to be the Trump delayed and did too little too late in dealing with the crisis.
The fact that leading Democrats such as Nancy Pelosi and Bill de Blasio , were urging people to go about their everyday lives at that same time in February will be ignored. This is part of the narrative that everything is the fault of Trump.
Fire him for insubordination!
Public health actions are not federal or presidential decisions. The decision to try imposing a lockdown on people is a state matter.
This is the narrative that will be used for defeating Trump in November.
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