Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergic Reaction and Contagious Diseases, has stated that former President Donald Trump tried to get him to downplay the intensity of the coronavirus pandemic.
Now working for President Biden’s administration, Fauci informed The New York Times, in an interview published Sunday, that Trump had prompted him to be optimistic– even as things got dire.
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” There were a couple of times where I would make a declaration that was a cynical viewpoint about what instructions we were going, and the president would call me up and state, ‘Hey, why aren’t you more positive? You have actually got to take a favorable attitude. Why are you so negativistic? Be more positive.'”
Fauci also expressed issue about how Trump would take the opinions of his company colleagues and others on pandemic-related issues as essential info.
” It was clear that he was getting input from individuals who were calling him up, I do not know who, individuals he understood from business, saying, ‘Hey, I found out about this drug, isn’t it great?’ or, ‘Boy, this convalescent plasma is actually sensational,'” he stated. “He would take just as seriously their viewpoint– based on no information, just anecdote– that something may actually be very important. It wasn’t just hydroxychloroquine, it was a range of alternative-medicine-type methods.”
Trump accepted the usage of hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria medication, to deal with the coronavirus in its early phases.
Newsweek reached out to Trump representatives for comment.
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