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Fauci to Rand Paul: 'I've never made myself out' as the only voice on the pandemic
TheHill ^ | 05/12/20 12:21 PM EDT | BY NATHANIEL WEIXEL

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


TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: anthonyfauci; coronavirus; disingenuous; fauci; ky; rand; randpaul
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1 posted on 05/12/2020 11:35:33 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

The Democrat Party-press and the Democrats of which are you are part of did. They said only Fauci should be talking.


2 posted on 05/12/2020 11:37:34 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: RandFan

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.


3 posted on 05/12/2020 11:37:56 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: RandFan

Yes Tony, that’s the media’s job.


4 posted on 05/12/2020 11:38:02 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Buckeye McFrog

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.


5 posted on 05/12/2020 11:41:13 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: RandFan

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...


6 posted on 05/12/2020 11:42:16 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: SpaceBar

I’m pretty sure that CNN coronated Fauci Highpriest Scientest President Doctor.
He will be obeyed.


7 posted on 05/12/2020 11:42:50 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Trump will not remove Fauci from the task force, nor minimize his input. That wagon was hitched far too long ago.


8 posted on 05/12/2020 11:43:13 AM PDT by CatOwner
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To: Vendome

Proving my point that NOT ALL DOCTORS agree with Fauci.
Far from it in fact.

Mr. Trump, PLEASE get a second opinion!


9 posted on 05/12/2020 11:44:12 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: RandFan

Doesn’t matter if he did or didn’t. The left did.


10 posted on 05/12/2020 11:44:15 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: CatOwner

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.


11 posted on 05/12/2020 11:44:43 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Ouchthatonehurt
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12 posted on 05/12/2020 11:45:44 AM PDT by timestax
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To: RandFan

Right - there are other faux scientists out there giving us wrong/fake information.


13 posted on 05/12/2020 11:45:50 AM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
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.

Screw it.

Just name Kellyanne Covid czar and get it over with.

She won't delay the recovery with all this "public health" nonsense.

14 posted on 05/12/2020 11:46:37 AM PDT by semimojo
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To: conservative98
The Democrat Party-press and the Democrats of which are you are part of did.

Say what?

15 posted on 05/12/2020 11:46:39 AM PDT by libertylover (Socialism will always look good to those who think they can get something for nothing.)
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To: RandFan

Yes you have by allowing the media to make you out to be one. Fraudci is a lying little weasel.


16 posted on 05/12/2020 11:46:42 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: RandFan

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.


17 posted on 05/12/2020 11:49:28 AM PDT by dadfly
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To: jmaroneps37

He’s pure swamp. The very definition of it.


18 posted on 05/12/2020 11:49:45 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: libertylover

19 posted on 05/12/2020 11:50:16 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: RandFan

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.


20 posted on 05/12/2020 11:50:55 AM PDT by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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