Anthony Fauci admits earlier Covid-19 mitigation efforts would have saved more American lives
Source: CNN
Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday that calls to implement life-saving social distancing measures faced "a lot of pushback" early in the US coronavirus outbreak and that the country is now looking for ways to more effectively respond to the virus should it rebound in the fall.
"I mean, obviously, you could logically say that if you had a process that was ongoing and you started mitigation earlier, you could have saved lives," Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union" when asked if social distancing and stay-at-home measures could have prevented deaths had they been put in place in February, instead of mid-March.
"Obviously, no one is going to deny that. But what goes into those decisions is complicated," added Fauci, who is a key member of the Trump administration's coronavirus task force. "But you're right, I mean, obviously, if we had right from the very beginning shut everything down, it may have been a little bit different. But there was a lot of pushback about shutting things down back then."
The comments from Fauci come a day after a report from The New York Times detailed the Trump administration's missteps in the early days of the pandemic and how President Donald Trump ignored his advisers' warnings of the potentially deadly disease.
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Botany
(70,512 posts)AKA Trump
NoRoadUntravelled
(2,626 posts)The late night Twittler hasn't demonstrated much restraint in other matters.
maddogesq
(1,245 posts)The good doc may be ready to bug out I fear, and this may be the parting shot.
I hope Im wrong...
C Moon
(12,213 posts)Tiger8
(432 posts)If Trump bases all his decisions on Hannity, Limbaugh, etc. then are they not fully to blame for this?
Im not excusing the gross negligence by Trump because this has happened repeatedly, and same for the entire Republican Party, including politicians and voters.
But the only solution is a return to the fairness doctrine.
COVID-19 has taught is we cannot survive with 25% of the electorate under total propaganda, and another 25-50% under varying degrees of influence. Im a solid Democrat, and I will blindly assuming some fact promoted in the general public is true.
Nacht Owl
(66 posts)A man of science having to deal with a president who thinks dictionary is a long word meaning "penis."
Stuart G
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Solly Mack
(90,769 posts)Obviously.
Aussie105
(5,401 posts)'We sat on our hands for 2 months while we waited for some effective leadership on this from the White House.'
No point getting in your shelter after the storm has passed, I guess.
Fauci's days in the job are probably numbered.
Trump is a magnet. Attracts incompetent people and repels those who know their job.