Using 80-year-old National Institute’s of Health [NIH] Chief of Allergy and Infection Disease Dr. Anthony Fauci, the media has made a circus of the coronavirus AKA SARS CoV-2 or Covid-19 global pandemic. Interviewing Fauci has become Democrats and the media’s favorite attack on 74-year-old President Donald Trump. Democrats and the media have turned the Conronavirus crisis into a major campaign issue, exploiting recent polls that show the public giving 77-year-old former Vice President and presumptive Democrat nominee Joe Biden the edge on managing the virus. How ironic since Biden has done nothing other than criticize Trump from his basement, yet the public thinks he’d do a better job of managing the virus. Anytime Trump criticizes Fauci, the media throws a fit, as if Fauci is infallible. Fauci has a clever way of covering his past positions on masks and the travel ban.
Calling Fauci the “nation’s leading expert on infections disease” is preposterous, if for no other reason he’s 80-years-of-age. He happens to occupy the NIH position as he has for a good portion of his career. There’s nothing wrong with Fauci’s experience but to sell him as the nation’s “leading expert” is factually incorrect. Trump’s been fuming over Fauci’s dismissal of the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment along with Azithromycin, possibly zinc, as a legitimate therapeutic treatment. Fauci cites a Lancet and New England Journal of Medicine Study performed by Dr. Sapan Desai that showed hydroxychrloquine caused cardiac arrythmias and deaths. Desai used his own research company Surgisphere for a meta-data analysis citing thousands of cases from hospitals all over the world. Fauci cited those studies to discredit Trump’s view that hydroxychloroquine was a legitimate treatment.
Fauci knows, but said nothing, that Desai’s research in Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine was retracted when the journals found out that Desai could not produce the data on which his studies were based. Yesterday, the New York Times reported that Surgisphere’s Website has been taken down, with Desai refusing to answer questions about his two studies. French virologists Dr. Didier Raoult, who reported promising case studies in Marseille, France on the use of hydroxychlorquine was discredited when the Lancet and New England Journal studies came out. But Fauci, knowing the fraud in the two studies, said nothing. “Dr. Anthony Fauci has misled the American public on many issues, but in particular, on dismissing hydroxychloroquine and calling Remdiesivir the new gold standard,” Trump tweeted, causing the media to rush to Fauci’s defense.
Speaking to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on “Good Morning America,” the highly anti-Trump host baited Fauci to attack Trump. “I have not been misleading the American public under any circumstances,” Fauci told Stephanopoulos. “I don’t tweet. I don’t even read them so I don’t really want to go there. I just will continue to do my job no matter what comes out because I think it’s very important,” Fauci said. Fauci clarified why March 31 he said that masks should be worn only by health care workers, not the general public. “Given the fact that there is a degree of transmission from aysmptomatic individuals who may not know they’re infected, we need to at least examine the possibility, as long as we’re absolutely certain we don’t take the masks away from who are health care professionals who need them,” Fauci said, showing no urgency for the public wearing masks..
Fauci said his remarks were taken out of context related to the public wearing masks. “It doesn’t need to be a classical mask. But something that would have someone prevent them from infecting others,” Fauci said, referring to the public wearing something that would cover the mouth and nose. Clearly, Fauci had no urgency on March 21 about the public wearing masks but he had no objections. Trump simply wants to remind the public that Fauci’s own views on masks have evolved over time along with other public health officials, liked the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] and World Health Organization [WHO]. Trump defied Fauci and WHO Jan. 31, banning China, then Europe and Ireland from traveling to the United States. WHO’s 55-year-old Director-General Tedros Adhanom, with whom Fauci has a close relationship, criticized Trump for banning travel to the U.S.
Democrats and media like to use Fauci as a foil against Trump purely for political reasons. But Fauci has trouble admitting that his views on the public wearing masks and travel to the U.S. have evolved over time. While there’s nothing wrong with that, there’s something very wrong with the media using Fauci to discredit the president. If Fauci’s really the “nation’s leading expert on infectious disease,” he should have notified the public that the Lancet and New England Journal’s study about hydroxychloroquine and heart medications have been retracted. Trump’s received nothing but gloating from Democrats and the media about the Lancet and New England Journal studies, proving Trump wrong about hydroxychloroquine. With the virus politicized by Democrats and the press, Trump has little chance of getting out the facts, when the virus has morphed into an Election Year issue.
