Dr. Anthony Fauci Returns for Tuesday White House Coronavirus Briefing, and Viewers Sound Off
03/25/2020 11:15 am EDT
Fauci joined the National Institutes of Health in 1968. By 1974, he became Head of the Clinical Physiology Section and in 1980 was appointed Chief of the Laboratory of Immunoregulation. Four years later, he became Director of NIAID, which he still holds to this day.
"We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself," Trump said about coronavirus on Monday. "We're not going to let the cure be worse than the problem. At the end of the 15-day period, we'll make a decision as to which way we want to go."
Despite the president's recommendation, many health officials, Fauci included, say this would likely make the pandemic worse. Especially given the lack of data on the virus itself.
Last week, Fauci made ig clear that any evidence being reported about possible drug therapies treating coronavirus were strictly "anecdotal," and not the result of an actual clinical trial. Fauci also added that no one can "make any definitive statement about it."
As Fauci was speaking, the president jumped to say that he felt "good" about the test treatments and disclosed that the federal government had already ordered "millions of units" of them.
Fauci also ended up going viral after ignoring his own advice and facepalming during an earlier White House briefing when Trump made a "Deep State" joke when answering a question.
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