Fauci fact checks Trump

US President Donald Trump and Dr Anthony Fauci are at odds over the use of hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment.

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A week after appearing to project a more serious tone about the coronavirus, President Donald Trump is back to pushing unproven claims that an anti-malaria drug is an effective treatment and challenging the credibility of the nation's leading infectious disease expert.

Dr Anthony Fauci pushed back Tuesday, saying he will keep doing his job.

Numerous studies, meanwhile, have shown that the drug, hydroxychloroquine, is not an effective treatment for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. And the US Food and Drug Administration recently withdrew an order that allowed the drug's use as an emergency treatment for COVID-19.

Yet overnight, after returning from a trip to North Carolina in which he promoted efforts to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, Trump retweeted a series of tweets advocating for hydroxychloroquine.

Dr Anthony Fauci and US President Donald Trump used to meet regularly earlier in the pandemic, Fauci has not been seen with the US president in months [File: Carlos Barria/Reuters]

The president also shared a post from the Twitter account for a podcast hosted by Steve Bannon, a former top White House adviser to Trump, accusing Fauci of misleading the public about hydroxychloroquine.

Fauci, a leading member of the White House coronavirus task force, pushed back Tuesday during an appearance on US broadcaster ABC's Good Morning America.

I'll go along with the FDA," said Fauci, the longtime director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases. "The overwhelming prevailing clinical trials that have looked at the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine have indicated that it is not effective in coronavirus disease."

It is not the first time Fauci has come under attack from Trump and those close to him.

The president's top trade adviser, Peter Navarro, who has clashed with Fauci about hydroxychloroquine, recently penned a scathing attack on the doctor that was published by USA Today. The newspaper later said the opinion piece did not meet its standards.

In recent nationally televised interviews, Trump himself has described Fauci as "a bit of an alarmist" and accused him of making "mistakes" in his coronavirus guidance to the American people.

Asked if he can continue to do his job when Trump continues to publicly question his credibility, Fauci said Tuesday he would press ahead "no matter what" because of the stakes involved.

"I don't tweet. I don't even read them, so I don't really want to go there," Fauci said.

"I just will continue to do my job no matter what comes out because I think it's very important. We're in the middle of a crisis with regard to an epidemic, a pandemic. This is what I do. This is what I've been trained for my entire professional life, and I'll continue to do it."

Asked about claims he has been misleading the public, Fauci said: "I have not been misleading the American public under any circumstances."

Twitter Inc. on Tuesday said it had limited access to Donald Trump Jr's account for 12 hours, after he posted a video of doctors talking about hydroxychloroquine that violated the site's misinformation policy on COVID-19.

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All that trouble just for me?

Stop being such a dickhead and I'll stop squeaking arsehole.

PS, typical lefty...your list is fake while mine is factual...

At last, someone has woken up and requested Dr. Lockout Fauci's WHO records.

Sure going to be interesting to see just how much money this Quack received from the  WHO and hopefully some indication of just how many lives he has terminated with his policies and recommendations.

Well done Judicial Watch.

The WHO is run by a guy who is under the thumb of China and is not even a Medical Doctor.

Figure that out.......just shows how screwed up everything is under the control of the so-called socialists.

You and science again...tell my your definition of science again! LOL!!!

Fauci the man who said Covid wasn’t going to be a problem in the US, still being treated as an expert.

Where's the quote of Fauci saying Covid 19 in the US won't be a problem ?

If you want to see Bozo saying repeatedly that Covid 19 was under control, was not a problem, had very low numbers in the US and would go away with the warm weather then just click here and play the video.

Typical Trumpanzees trying to attribute Bozo's massive ignorance to someone else . . . without actually putting up a shred of evidence.

Well at last old Rooiprick has awakened from his slumber with more "old lies" from his archives of famous quotes from lying Demorats.

Simple, struggling, and slippery.

Watch Judicial Watch take your hero apart as documents are released.

September 4th I believe is a big, big day for all Demorats I am told.

Roll on September 4th.

Four More Years.

Fauci said, “Obviously, you need to take it seriously and do the kind of things the (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and the Department of Homeland Security is doing. But this is not a major threat to the people of the United States and this is not something that the citizens of the United States right now should be worried about.”

 That’s the ‘warning’ our ‘leading’ virologist gave the US a month before the disease decimated NY. That is the advice he was giving  the President and the country. An unforgivable mistake given the evidence already available in Wuhan.

Bannon said, "Fauci told us there’s nothing to worry about. That’s his quote, ‘There’s nothing to worry about.’"

Fauci did say twice in late January , when there was one reported covid-19 case in the U.S., that American shouldn’t worry about the virus. But Bannon omits an important detail: Both times, Fauci added that the situation could change.

I quoted what he said....word for word.....he failed to warn the country. Nor did he ever call for stopping flights. 

Face it the only reason the media haven’t torn this vain old man apart is because he is anti Trump.