WH accuses Fauci of playing politics over bleak coronavirus assessment – By Axios Staff (Axios) / Nov 1 2020
NAID director Anthony Fauci praised the Biden campaign’s coronavirus stance, criticized White House adviser Scott Atlas and offered a bleak assessment of the U.S. pandemic response in an interview with the Washington Post, published Saturday.
Why it matters: Fauci’s comments are perhaps his most frank yet and come as COVID-19 cases surge across the U.S. The White House called Fauci’s remarks three days out from the election “unacceptable.” Atlas publicly responded to his fellow coronavirus task force member in a tweet late Saturday.
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Driving the news: In the wide-ranging interview conducted Friday, Fauci said the U.S. was “in for a whole lot of hurt” going into the fall and winter, with people congregating at indoors. “You could not possibly be positioned more poorly,” he noted.
On presidential candidate Joe Biden’s approach to the pandemic, Fauci said the Democrat’s campaign “is taking it seriously from a public health perspective.”
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