Posted on 04/06/2020 10:55:03 AM PDT by Hojczyk
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro Monday confirmed reports of a heated argument between himself and Dr. Anthony Fauci over the weekend concerning the use of hydroxychloroquine while continuing to push for the use of the drug in the fight against COVID-19.
"If we didn't have disagreement or debate in the Trump administration, this administration would not be as strong as it is," Navarro told CNN's "New Day" host John Berman. He also confirmed the argument in a separate Fox News interview.
"Let me focus on the issue at hand," Navarro told Berman. "Does hydroxychloroquine work? That was the subject in the task force meeting this Saturday."
At the end of the day, FEMA has 29 million tablets of the drug in a warehouse, and the White House task force agreed unanimously that FEMA would start surging them into the nation's "hot zones."
Navarro added that in the New York hospitals' system, "virtually every patient" with COVID-19 symptoms is given a cycle of hydroxychloroquine.
Navarro had brought several studies to the meeting, reports Axios, but Fauci argued that they contained anecdotal, not scientific evidence.
"There are now numerous scientific studies that indicate potential efficacy," Navarro argued on Monday, adding that he'd let Fauci speak for himself, "but I'll have two words for you. Second opinion."
"What are your qualifications to weigh in on medicines more than Dr. Anthony Fauci?" Berman replied. "Why should we listen to you and not Dr. Fauci?"
Navarro suggested that CNN bring in other doctors who can speak more about the benefits of the drug, but that his own qualifications are that he is a "social scientist" with a PhD and he understands "how to read statistical studies."
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Insurance policy against Trump, term #2.
Question the Data. Question the objective. Question the motives. Question democratic donors.
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I don’t see Fauci on it.
Fauci: The first doctor I’ve ever seen who was completely uninterested in a cure.
We gave 1000’s these pills and they lived! = anecdotal.
That person has a penis! = Female.
Science today.
Mine too.
...and in the meantime, I got another call from a Pharma company needing to start up Hydroxychloroquine” production this week...Per the FDA approval.
There’s something our officials don’t want us to know.
Should have been done 6 weeks ago.
I have confidence in Navarro. Not so much in Fauci.
Live in the DC area and know people who know him.
Your rat weasel alarm is correct.
...... Wonder what their prognostications will be for next weeks Death Count???
Dr Death Fauci is a Hillary and Bill Gates boot licker.
He recommended that the economy be shut down
And his models have not been accurate.
When this is over Dr Death should “retire” to spend
more time with his family.
Is this the one in WV or another one?
Great tag BTW....without Seth the Dems would have had to falsify Russian collusion.......Ohh..wait!
Fauci is a Hillary lover, who doesn’t have the slightest incentive to quickly end this thing. ANd he has the perfect weapon, standing on glacial paced procedure and policy. Following every rule to the n’th degree. What Fauci is doing is the equivalent of a drowning man wanting to know if the life ring you threw him is USCG approved as a flotation device.
This drug is well understood and is 58 years old. It is a synthetic version of drug closer to 100 years old.
The risks and side effects are well understood. The only question remaining is whether or not it is effective for this use. The FDA has already approved it.
His science prig act is wearing thin. And yes,, I fully believe he would happily accept a few more deaths, and a destroyed economy to remove Trump, who in truth he despises.
Don’t kid yourselves, it would be easy for someone like him to rationalize such a despicable path. How many times do you hear health policy experts talking about old people taking the pain pill, needing to get out of the way, euthanasia, years of useful life left, etc etc.
He will not see it as mass murder... he would simply see it as normal policy. Furthermore, he pprobably is one of the believers that Trump is killing people at the border, and worldwide with America first policies. So he would think stopping Trump would be saving lives.
He’s a snake in the swamp grass. But best to not fire him. Better to make him stay and pretend to be a team player. Don’t give him the easy out to run straight to the DNC and start his gadfly act standing beside Biden daily telling us how wrong Trump is.
Feuding is fake news. Different opinions, arguments and debates are all a part of a healthy process. The media is filled with fake news because they don’t want 4 more years
I think Navarro is a hydroxycholoroquin proponent but also Trump’s mouthpiece here which is why it’s not so down-low.
Because Fauci doesn't have an answer. The doctors using it do.
If it's not effective, why did Gov. Sisolak threaten Nevada doctors with license revocation if they dared prescribe it to honest, hard working, tax paying Nevada residents, while hoarding it for himself and state prisoners?
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