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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,881 posts)
Tue Jun 16, 2020, 06:40 PM Jun 2020

Top coronavirus expert Dr. Anthony Fauci says he hasn't talked to Trump in two weeks

WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci said in a Tuesday radio interview he had not talked with President Donald Trump in two weeks.

Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told NPR's "1A," which is produced out of WAMU in Washington, D.C., that the last time he talked to Trump was "two weeks ago" and it was about "vaccine development efforts."

The coronavirus task force has appeared in public less frequently as the Trump administration has shifted its focus to reopening the economy after safer-at-home orders were implemented to limit the spread of the virus.

Asked if any states had reopened too soon, Fauci said he would not say some states had reopened "too soon" but "certainly before they got to the benchmarks they needed to get." The increase in cases in some states, Fauci said, was likely due to people who are "not really adhering to the structured type of guidelines that belong to the phase that they're in."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/top-coronavirus-expert-dr-anthony-fauci-says-he-hasnt-talked-to-trump-in-two-weeks/ar-BB15zywT?li=BBnb7Kz

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Top coronavirus expert Dr. Anthony Fauci says he hasn't talked to Trump in two weeks (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2020 OP
Why talk in code? soothsayer Jun 2020 #1
He is more concerned about keeping his job. Nt helpisontheway Jun 2020 #2
That's fair. But what if he said soothsayer Jun 2020 #6
Sounds like a good two weeks to me Blue Owl Jun 2020 #3
For him, maybe... regnaD kciN Jun 2020 #5
Trump has moved on. The virus is ancient hx to him even as he brags of all he has done to rid riversedge Jun 2020 #4

soothsayer

(38,601 posts)
1. Why talk in code?
Tue Jun 16, 2020, 06:48 PM
Jun 2020

Just say it’s all effed up and people opened way too soon and the task force was so neutered it was ineffective.

soothsayer

(38,601 posts)
6. That's fair. But what if he said
Tue Jun 16, 2020, 08:07 PM
Jun 2020

“Trump will want to fire me for this, but here’s the truth.”

I guess he’d get fired.

riversedge

(70,183 posts)
4. Trump has moved on. The virus is ancient hx to him even as he brags of all he has done to rid
Tue Jun 16, 2020, 07:01 PM
Jun 2020

the US of the virus.

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