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Dr. Anthony Fauci, the general public face of the federal authorities’s coronavirus pandemic response, is dealing with criticism on social media over a manuscript printed in a prime journal the place he maintains his place that the virus originated in nature and cites a debunked declare that President-elect Trump advised Individuals to inject themselves with bleach to cease the virus.
Fauci, together with researcher Gregory Folkers, printed a paper within the Scientific Infectious Ailments journal this week with the title, “HIV/AIDS and COVID-19: Shared Lessons from Two Pandemics.”
Fauci, who confronted intense criticism for his dealing with of the pandemic, was crucial of Trump’s dealing with of the pandemic within the paper.
“With COVID-19, the role of political leadership at the highest level – or the lack thereof – was again shown to be critical,” the authors wrote. “As COVID-19 exploded globally and in the United States, President Donald Trump frequently minimized the seriousness of the pandemic, repeatedly claiming that COVID-19 would just ‘go away’ In the first full year of the pandemic (2020, the last year of his presidency) he failed to use his bully pulpit to encourage people to use available ‘low-tech’ tools such as masks/respirators, better ventilation, and physical distancing to reduce the risk of infection.”
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President Trump alongside Dr. Anthony Fauci
“Trump also gave credence to unproven and potentially dangerous substances for COVID-19 prevention and treatment such as bleach injections, the antimalarial hydroxychloroquine and the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin. Many of his hundreds of communications during the COVID-19 pandemic were missed opportunities for political leadership in promoting policies and practices to mitigate the impact of a raging pandemic.”
The paper additionally says that “abundant evidence from top evolutionary virologists and leading scientists in other fields strongly suggests that the virus jumped species from an animal reservoir to humans in the Huanan market in Wuhan, China, and then spread throughout China and the rest of the world.”
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, former Director of the Nationwide Institute of Allergy and Infectious Ailments, is sworn-in for testimony earlier than the Home Oversight and Accountability Committee Choose Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Photographs)
A number of media shops have fact-checked and debunked the declare that Trump instructed individuals to inject themselves with bleach together with Politifact who known as President Biden’s accusation “mostly false.”
“Fauci is an embarrassment,” conservative communicator Steve Visitor posted on X.
“Oy vey,” Nationwide Evaluation contributor Pradeep Shanker posted on X.
“Fauci is out with a new scientific paper on HIV/AIDS & COVID-19 where he falsely claims Trump told people to inject bleach & where he argues COVID-19 has a natural origin (Wuhan lab leak not even mentioned) by citing the same authors who wrote the infamous Proximal Origins paper,” writer and journalist Jerry Dunleavy posted on X.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, former Director of the Nationwide Institute of Allergy and Infectious Ailments, arrives to testify earlier than the Home Oversight and Accountability Committee Choose Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on the Rayburn Home Workplace Constructing on June 3, 2024, in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Photographs)
