Fauci Has Republicans Debating If He's a Pandemic Hero or Villain
(Bloomberg) -- Republicans are feuding over Anthony Fauci, debating whether to praise the nation’s top infectious disease expert for his advice on fighting the coronavirus or deride him as an obstacle to President Donald Trump’s campaign to reopen the U.S. economy.
It’s a debate that has Representative Liz Cheney defending Fauci as “one of the finest public servants we have ever had.”
It started Tuesday when Fauci gave the Senate Health Committee a stark warning that premature moves to lift restrictions that have kept millions of workers at home and businesses closed create a “real risk that you will trigger an outbreak that you might not be able to control.”
Fauci urged that reopenings be delayed until states reach checkpoints outlined in administration guidelines. They set out a succession of thresholds, including a “downward trajectory” of documented cases or positive coronavirus tests “within a 14-day period.”
Most senators of both parties treated the 79-year-old director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases with respect, even as Republicans tended to advance Trump’s counterargument that “we’ve prevailed” in ramping up testing and it’s time to reopen the country.
The exception to the deference was GOP Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, who tested positive earlier in the coronavirus outbreak and lectured Fauci that he’s not “the end-all” in decisions on the pandemic.
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Rand Paul is an idiot. We all know that.
