Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Has Tony Fauci Finally Drawn His Line In The Sand?



From the New York Times Sheryl Gay Stolberg last night:

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert and a central figure in the government’s response to the coronavirus, plans to deliver a stark warning to the Senate on Tuesday: Americans would experience “needless suffering and death” if the country opens up prematurely...

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....(Fauci) made his comments in an email to a New York Times reporter late Monday night.

“The major message that I wish to convey to the Senate HLP committee tomorrow is the danger of trying to open the country prematurely,” he wrote. “If we skip over the checkpoints in the guidelines to ‘Open America Again,’ then we risk the danger of multiple outbreaks throughout the country. This will not only result in needless suffering and death, but would actually set us back on our quest to return to normal.”

It is a message starkly at odds with the things-are-looking-up argument that President Trump has been trying to put out: that states are ready to reopen and the pandemic is under control...



Will he really go through with it and stop any and all enabling as we argued he must do awhile back?


Time and, presumably tomorrow's story from Ms. Stolberg, will tell.


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Update: It would appear that, in the end, Dr. Fauci pulled a 'reverse Trump'.


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