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
If there were screw ups, they were in NY.
Not to mention tons of illegal entry points...and many visitors from every nation affected by covid 19
In January we were totally absorbed in the phoney impeachment. Why wasn’t congress focusing on a disease in China? This is another wild goose chase.
On January 31, President Trump closed all air traffic from China. And no Chinese through other borders either, iirc.
Oddly enough, on January 31 Fauci was on TeeVee saying the corona virus was not dangerous and that closing air traffic from China was a bad idea.
Not a wild goose chase. An intential diversionary tactic.
The socialists are so full of cr*p. First of all the socialist Trump haters were taking up valuable congressional time with their witch hunt to bring down Trump thus our country not being focused on real problems national and international. Secondly, HOW THE HELL WERE WE TO BE READY FOR THIS CHICOM WEAPON THEY LET LOOSE! This is an extremley dangerous virus that was unleashed. We are told about a virus, NOT THE END OF DAYS VIRUS that these Chinese demons created! The left better get with the country and help to find an answer to a critical problem instead of spewing total horsesh*t.
Wont we all just get it and die later?
Dr. Fauci may be untrustworthy, but in this article, he seems to be defending the administration.
We have an idiot in forum that thinks Fauci is the greatest thing ever.
Says anything posted against fauci is “pushing mainstream media narrative”.
Pence told the team not to talk to CNN. When Pence relents, the first person to go running in front of the CNN mic is Fauci, who promptly gets rolled.
Yes, USA Today is verboten on Free Republic. So if you look at the February article, you see Fauci sayng we have nothing to worry about. Now he's suggesting Trump was ignoring warnings in February.
I don’t believe for a minute that it was by “screw up” that Fauci and the CDC kept us without tests for weeks.
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