Posted on 03/23/2020 7:35:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, expressed his contempt for the media on Sunday during an interview on CBS News' "Face the Nation."
"You said this week that you differed from the president in an assessment that a combination of two drugs, Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin, combined, could have an outcome that he described to the public," Margaret Brennan said. "Who is the president listening to and do you see a concern here that those drugs could become, basically oversubscribed, and there could be a shortage that could impact people who have persistent medical issues, like Lupus, and need those?"
"There's an issue here of where we're coming from. The president has heard, as we all have heard, are what I call 'anecdotal reports' that certain drugs work. So, what he was trying to do, and express, was the hope that it might work, let's try and push their usage," Fauci explained. "I, on the other hand, am not disagreeing with the fact that, anecdotally, they might work. But my view is to prove, definitively, from a scientific standpoint, that they do work. So I was taking a purely medical, scientific standpoint. And the president was trying to bring hope to the people."
According to Fauci, the media is continually trying to find contrasts between what the NIAID director and the president have said about the Wuhan coronavirus.
"I think there's this issue of trying to separate the two of us," he said. "There isn't fundamentally a difference there. He's coming from a hope standpoint. I'm coming from it from a scientific standpoint."
The media has taken issue with President Trump suggesting that a combination of Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin could be a potential treatment for the virus.
But when New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) suggested it, the mainstream media applauded the proposal. The media has continually praised Cuomo for his response to the Wuhan coronavirus but point to Trump and say he's not doing enough. Interestingly enough, Cuomo has repeatedly praised the Trump administration for working with states to make personal protective equipment and testing available.
This is just another example of the media doing what they do best: spinning the facts in a time of crisis.
Let's hope so. I have things I want to do and I can't do them while sitting here at home.
BOOM!
Boom Shaka Laka
Actually, Fauci always takes this perspective. He has supported President Trump’s leadership with this task force.
You don’t want a task force of “yes men”.
And NO I didn’t forget women. For you “younger folks” ...
MAN (plural men)
2.a member of the species Homo sapiens or all the members of this species collectively, without regard to sex:
3.the human individual as representing the species, without reference to sex; the human race; humankind:
WORDS, they mean things. Don’t be man-nip-ulated by women or the left.
“Man” has ALWAYS meant BOTH men and women in most contexts.
As in “HU-MAN”, human.
Humans live in the jungle, not in a “rain forest”.
PC is DESTROYING our country! REFUSE to play!
Oh, by the way, the term is SEX not “gender”. Another PC term the left has foisted upon us. REFUSE to play!
The word is SEX! Gender is for grammar class.
Yes!
You seem to be missing the fact of the other anecdotal evidence when as taken as a whole along with this study amounts to reason to hope and give this thing a shot.
Why do you believe NY has been sent hundreds of thousands of doses of these medications to use on Chinese Virus patients? Do you think they would do this if there was no chance of helping the victims?
Youy may not be interested but there are many doctors, well known doctors who advocate for the use of these drugs. There are NONE that I am aware of who claim we should NOT use them using any other reason than “they haven’t been sufficiently tested for THIS use”
That is not a viable excuse given the current circumstances since we already KNOW the possible side effects of these well tested medications along with its success rate even if it is anecdotal.
Ok William Tell. I hope you hit the apple.
“Good chance she succumbs to the Virus. Unhealthy doesn’t even describe that woman.”
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Satan will decide when that woman takes her last breath and not a minute earlier.
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Actually, it is God who makes the call with date and time. Satan is the receiving agent.
Why do you say that? Am I not permitted to point out limitations of a study that even the authors recognize? I'm all for curing this disease as soon as possible.
None of that above changes the rules of scientific inquiry. Here's some dialogue from a movie about Louis Pasteur made in 1936 and describing the state of things around 1860 (only 76 years earlier):
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Dr. Charbonnet: You remember a few years ago, he [Pasteur] was the cause of a slight
controversy on the subject of sour wine.
Napoleon III: Oh, yes, I recall.
Dr. Charbonnet: He claimed to have found little animals in it... infinitesimal beasts.
Napoleon III: But are there such creatures? Do they really exist?
Dr. Charbonnet: Your Majesty, microscopic organisms have long been observed.
They spring into being of their own accord wherever there is putrid matter
or fermentation. They are the result rather than the cause of disease.
By heating wine to certain temperature, Monsieur Pasteur was able to destroy them.
I presume he plans to cure blood poisoning in the same manner:
namely, by boiling our blood.
Napoleon III: Heaven forbid.
Dr. Charbonnet: It's not unlikely, I assure you.
Napoleon III: But, I won't have it, Charbonnet. I won't tolerate such practices.
We're not living in the Middle Ages.
This is France... Paris... the nineteenth century.
Empress Eugenie: I think Monsieur Pasteur should be allowed to defend himself.
Dr. Charbonnet: But, your Majesty...
Empress Eugenie: I, too, have read the pamphlet, Doctor Charbonnet.
It said nothing about boiling blood - merely to boil the instruments
that you surgeons use.
Dr. Charbonnet: Your Majesty, if I did anything so absurd as to boil my instruments
or scrub my hands, they'd think I was a witch doctor resorting to charms
and laugh me out of the hospital.
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On 9 October 1676, van Leeuwenhoek reported the discovery of micro-organisms. Yet the damage they can do wasn't accepted for another 84 years.
Science is hard.
I am not denying the virus I am calling bullshit on the huge media over hype.
People die from viruses.
https://weather.com/health/cold-flu/news/2020-01-31-5-worst-flu-outbreaks-in-recent-history
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s a good man AND a tough cookie...
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