Posted on 04/12/2020 10:02:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
South Korea announced its first coronavirus cases around the same time the U.S. did, back in January. Yet, two months later and the U.S. has 50 times more cases and almost 100 times more fatalities. CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta has suggested that that discrepancy is because the U.S. did not act quickly enough on its mitigation efforts.
"i think that we acted late, Jake," he told CNN host Jake Tapper on Sunday's "State of the Union."
He added that we "did not test adequately," and it allowed the virus to circulate in communities across the country.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told Tapper that Gupta's assessment was "unfair."
"You know it isn't as simple as that, Jake, I'm sorry," Fauci responded.
It's unfair to compare us to South Korea, Fauci explained, because they were able to completely shut everything down, a move that the U.S. "may not have been able to do." There were several factors to consider.
"I don't think you can say we are where we are because of one factor," Fauci said. "It's very complicated, Jake."
Fauci, a White House coronavirus task force member, conceded that "obviously" if they had started the mitigation process and social distancing earlier, lives could have been spared. But, the doctor refused to get into hypotheticals. What goes into those kinds of decisions, he argued, is "complicated."
"There was a lot of pushback about shutting things down back then," Fauci recalled.
Yet, Dr. Fauci expressed his cautious optimism that America could be turning the tide soon, as the rate of hospializations are beginning to level in hotspots like New York City. Once we get the capability to test in real time, he noted, we can begin a "gradual, rolling reentry" to normal life.
Dr. Anthony Fauci expresses “hopeful... cautious optimism” as signs emerge that the coronavirus curve may have begun to flatten. https://t.co/Y3z65Z1EFy pic.twitter.com/YUfyXKPLdz— State of the Union (@CNNSotu) April 12, 2020
The media keep twisting Fauci’s words, just as they do with Trump.
Well, what do you expect from them?
He’s there to monitor not actually accomplish anything.
I haven’t watched CNN in ages.
About all the links in your link lead to USAToday
More blame goes to China and our complicit LSM attacking the President and his plans of action. Blame the tyrannical DemoRat governors those who would act like dictators and esp those who squashed access to hydroxychloroquine Rx. Truly they have helped cause the deaths of some C-19 patients. Blame those moron and often evil loving voters who elect such godless drecks. We will get past this mess but those losers were roadblocks along the way.
Maybe CNN caved and is going to carry the pressers. Guess we’ll see.
Fauci got his hackles up because Gupta attacked his precious public health bureaucracy. He probably would have let him attack Trump.
He has had people from both sides looking for excuses to attack, again, it comes with the job. He is not to back down now. Case in point, he is not putting up with CNN either.
People in the Family are beginning to think we made have had it in January. I was sick for two weeks with “something” back then.
The antibody tests will tell the tale.
Dr. Fraudci is encouraging the anti-Trump media to ‘ask’ him questions because Dr. Birx is avoiding politics.
I wouldn’t put it past a doctor with a Napoleonic Complex to try to sabotage the Administration’s success in reopening America with a made up tantrum followed by a fiery resignation. It’s the commies last chance to get rid of Trump. They will invent something big to exploit. Nothing else worked!
Stay tuned.
Fauci studied Aids and advised 6 Presidents on it. Which were: Presidents Ronald Reagan, George Herbert Walker Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, that arrogant pos former occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, (you know of who I am talking about, and finally President Trump.
It seems to me that what they mean by “Trump not acting quickly enough” is that the early testing roll-out was, let’s face it, a mess.
But a mess of the deep-state FDA and CDC bureaucrats, who just stumbled along in their usual fashion preventing university and private labs from doing what needed to be done.
It’s a tricky argument for the MSM and the #resistance. For that line of propaganda to work, one has to imagine that the President makes every single decision in the executive branch. What did happen is that somehow, in contrast to every FDA policy since at least 1990, the FDA suddenly started getting out of the way. Obviously, that was Trump’s doing, and something that a Democrat president would never do.
Fox News did definitely not agree with the New York Slimes
I know a few people who think they had it for sure..it would be nice to have the antibody test done for everyone who believes they might have had it and fully recovered
Liars. The US has 8 times more cases and 16 times more fatalities.
Yes, because they are liars. But they are all about the SCIENCE, don't you know.
I think he was at the WH presser after PDJT's first health physical and he was trying to argue with Trump's doctor that had performed the physical. What a total jerk.
Fauci is at NIH. The CDC screwed up the tests.
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