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Posted on 05/12/2020 11:35:33 AM PDT by RandFan
Anthony Fauci bluntly told Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Tuesday that he has never put himself up as the definitive authority on the coronavirus pandemic.
"I have never made myself out to be the end all and only voice in this. I'm a scientist, a physician and a public health official. I give advice according to the best scientific evidence," Fauci, the director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said during a Senate hearing about the coronavirus pandemic.
Fauci pushed back on Paul's comments that scientists should "have a little bit of humility" because they do not know what's best for the economy.
"As much as I respect you, Dr. Fauci, I don't think you're the end all. I don't think you're the one person that gets to make a decision," Paul said. "We can listen to your advice, but there are people on the other side saying there's not going to be a surge, that we can safely reopen the economy, and the facts will bear this out."
Fauci responded that he doesn't give economic advice.
"I don't give advice about anything other than public health," Fauci said.
Paul, an ophthalmologist, predicted that there won't be a surge in positive cases and deaths in states that are currently reopening their economies.
Paul said he thinks public health officials who model diseases should own up to being wrong if there's no surge, "because I think that's what's going to happen. In rural states we never really reached any sort of pandemic levels in Kentucky and other states."
Paul also suggested that children should go back to school in the fall because he thinks they are at low risk for catching COVID-19 and have such low levels of mortality.
Fauci responded, noting that humility is saying there's a lot people don't know about the virus, especially about its effects on children.
"We really better be very careful, particularly when it comes to children, because the more and more we learn, we're seeing things the virus can do that we didn't see from the studies in China or in Europe," Fauci said.
"You're right, in the numbers that children, in general, do much much better than adults and the elderly, and particularly those with underlying conditions, but I am very careful and hopefully humble that I don't know everything about this disease, and that's why I'm very reserved in making broad predictions," Fauci said
The Democrat Party-press and the Democrats of which are you are part of did. They said only Fauci should be talking.
OK, Mr. President. There is your opening.
Dr. Fauci just said he is not the foremost COVID authority AND DOES NOT WISH TO BE.
So name a bunch of doctors to your task force who don’t hold his narrow-minded opinions and relegate him to the back bench.
Yes Tony, that’s the media’s job.
is this little twerp fauci going to be the one that brings down Trump?
A while ago I would have laughed at that....now....I’m not so sure.
Paul, an ophthalmologist, predicted that there won’t be a surge in positive cases and deaths in states that are currently reopening their economies.
I think he sees something...
I’m pretty sure that CNN coronated Fauci Highpriest Scientest President Doctor.
He will be obeyed.
Trump will not remove Fauci from the task force, nor minimize his input. That wagon was hitched far too long ago.
Proving my point that NOT ALL DOCTORS agree with Fauci.
Far from it in fact.
Mr. Trump, PLEASE get a second opinion!
Doesn’t matter if he did or didn’t. The left did.
He does not have to remove Fauci. Just drown him out with other medical voices who disagree. Fauci just more or less asked for that with his answer.
Right - there are other faux scientists out there giving us wrong/fake information.
Screw it.
Just name Kellyanne Covid czar and get it over with.
She won't delay the recovery with all this "public health" nonsense.
Say what?
Yes you have by allowing the media to make you out to be one. Fraudci is a lying little weasel.
so says the guy who ought to be under investigation for funneling millions to the wuhan bsl4-pathogen lab, where odds are that the pandemic originated.
He’s pure swamp. The very definition of it.
BS. He has relished his time in the spotlight.
He seems to be working with the left on this, IMO, and is doing their bidding with his “proclamations”.
It seems to me that every time he is quoted with contradictory statements vs the President and called out on it he backtracks.
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