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Originally published on July 2, 2020:
Dr. Anthony Fauci said Wednesday it is not too late to avoid the dire picture he outlined in congressional testimony of 100,000 coronavirus cases a day [we are now at about 250,000].
The nation's leading infectious disease experts said the conflicting advice offered by federal leaders around face masks in the early days of the pandemic helped sow distrust and continues to hamper the government's ability to slow the outbreak.
"We have to admit it, that that mixed message in the beginning, even though it was well meant to allow masks to be available for health workers, that was detrimental in getting the message across," Fauci said in an interview with Mary Louise Kelly of NPR's All Things Considered. "No doubt about it..”
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@Essala uses Fauci’s early remarks out of context and in a completely tendentious way.
Here is an article dedicated to correcting mistaken conceptions of what was said when, and why:
PolitiFact - Video shows outdated face mask guidance from Dr. Anthony Fauci
Dr. Anthony Fauci said Wednesday it is not too late to avoid the dire picture he outlined in congressional testimony of 100,000 coronavirus cases a day [we are now at about 250,000].
The nation's leading infectious disease experts said the conflicting advice offered by federal leaders around face masks in the early days of the pandemic helped sow distrust and continues to hamper the government's ability to slow the outbreak.
"We have to admit it, that that mixed message in the beginning, even though it was well meant to allow masks to be available for health workers, that was detrimental in getting the message across," Fauci said in an interview with Mary Louise Kelly of NPR's All Things Considered. "No doubt about it..”
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@Essala uses Fauci’s early remarks out of context and in a completely tendentious way.
Here is an article dedicated to correcting mistaken conceptions of what was said when, and why:
PolitiFact - Video shows outdated face mask guidance from Dr. Anthony Fauci