Posted on 05/28/2020 7:26:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Dr. Anthony Fauci said on CNN that while a “second wave” of coronavirus infections “could happen,” another outbreak is “not inevitable.”
Fauci, who has been warning about a “second wave” for months, appeared to back off his dire predictions slightly. In April he said, “We will have coronavirus in the fall. I am convinced of that.”
He told The Washington Post this month that he has “no doubt” there will be new waves of cases.
Fauci’s comments came days after he told CNBC that stay-at-home orders intended to curb the spread of the coronavirus could end up causing “irreparable damage” if imposed for too long.
“I don’t want people to think that any of us feel that staying locked down for a prolonged period of time is the way to go,” Fauci said during an interview Friday with CNBC’s Meg Tirrell on “Halftime Report.”
Fauci also threw cold water on any hope that hydroxychloroquine could prove the “miracle drug” some claimed it to be.
Fauci said Wednesday that “the lack of efficacy” for anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, which has been touted by Trump as a game-changer against the coronavirus, is clear.
A study published Friday in medical journal The Lancet found that hospitalized Covid-19 patients treated with hydroxychloroquine had a higher risk of death than those who didn’t take it.
Earlier Wednesday, France said it banned the use of the potential treatment. On Monday, the World Health Organization said it temporarily suspended its trial of hydroxycholoroquine over safety concerns.
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The flu comes and goes, too.
This guy changes his opinion daily and people still hold him up like he’s a science god!
They spelled Fauci’s name wrong. It is Dr. Fraud.
The ones who bitch about some of us not wearing facemasks and gloves are the ones who listen to him.
That man is SUCH a fraud.
I would like to see what connections he has to Gilead since he was pushing Remdisavir so hard. Now that it has proven ineffective what is he going to do?
That looks like a Ferret, not a Weasel.
No royalties, no vast numbers of dollars to the Fauci account.
#Faucism
Rand is about three times the doc he is.
Up till now he’s been bluffing a bunch of ofay politicians who flunked high school biology.
Now he’s up against people who actually can call his BS, and he crumbles.
And the Oxford vaccine researchers say that the virus is fading out on its own so quickly that there may be no way to effectively test it when they are ready.
Dr. Tony may not get his CHA-CHING after all.
Dr Fauci, please shut up.
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Yup. In his Senate testimony when Paul was up it was easy to see who the REAL doctor was.
I don’t believe a damn thing that moron says. He’s been wrong so many times it’s pathetic and he changes his mind and stances constantly.
***A study published Friday in medical journal The Lancet found that hospitalized Covid-19 patients treated with hydroxychloroquine had a higher risk of death than those who didn’t take it.***
I haven’t read the study, but wonder, is it possible they overdosed the patients in the study, thereby poisoning them instead? I read from a Brazilian doctor where he said that he looked at a study, and found that in THAT study, the dosages were quite high, thus likely killing the patient instead of helping. He remarked that it almost seemed an intentional thing.
I know, I know, it’s the internet, and you can say anything you want on the internet. It just seems to me that Fauci can say whatever he wants at any point, and seems to get away with it. I think he has been Peter Principled into his job, and he’s held it for far too long.
Geeze, this guy is wrong like ALL THE TIME.
Because of that, I AM worried about a second wave at this point.
You mean Fauci was wrong when he predicted a deadly second wave?! I can’t believe it! /S
RE: You mean Fauci was wrong when he predicted a deadly second wave?! I can’t believe it! /S
Give him a few days -— he’ll change his mind again. The man is a weather vane.
Wassamatta? The second check bounce??
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