Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell mocked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during a Senate floor speech on Monday over comments that Pelosi made last week about a treatment for COVID-19 involving cannabis.
A provision of the Democratic coronavirus relief bill from last week was tied to marijuana and would have allowed legal marijuana businesses the ability to access banking services.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t agree with you that cannabis is not related to this,&#8221; Pelosi <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/07/31/coronavirus-pelosi-defends-cannabis-banking-provision-covid-19-bill/5555644002/">said</a>. &#8220;This is a therapy that has proven successful.&#8221;
While speaking about how Democrats &#8220;are blocking&#8221; the Senate&#8217;s current proposals for the next round of loans, McConnell said, &#8220;The Democratic leaders want the entirety of their massive far-left wish list, all of it.&#8221;
&#8220;Speaker Pelosi is still agitating for strange, new special interests carve-outs for the marijuana industry and even claiming they were COVID-related,&#8221; McConnell continued. &#8220;She said that with respect to this virus, marijuana is, quote, &#8216;a therapy that is proven successful.&#8217; You can&#8217;t make this up. I hope she shared her breakthrough with Dr. Fauci.&#8221;
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Pelosi is calling for &quot;new special interest carve-outs for [marijuana] &#8230; She said that with respect to this virus, marijuana is, &#39;A therapy that is proven successful.&#39; You can&#39;t make this up. I hope she shared her breakthrough with Dr. Fauci.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/QoGg63RkNF">pic.twitter.com/QoGg63RkNF</a>
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<blockquote>Another day has come and gone in this once in a century national battle for our country. Yesterday more of our neighbors had to say goodbye to loved ones whose lives were claimed by this virus. Yesterday more doctors and more nurses worked long shifts on the front lines fighting to heal strangers and limit a national death toll that now exceeds 150,000. Yesterday more workers brought home pink slips. More main street businesses saw the end of their P.P.P. lifelines fast approaching. Yesterday more laid off Americans filed new claims for unemployment insurance or laid awake wondering about next month&#8217;s rent. Yesterday more school officials wondered what to tell parents, students, and teachers about September.
So what happened here in the capitol yesterday, madam president? With the American people fighting all these battles and more, what did the speaker of the house and the Democratic leader do with yet another day of deliberations? Yet again it was the exact same refrain. It never seems to change. We&#8217;re feeling optimistic. We spoke very politely to the administration but we&#8217;re still nowhere close on substance. It&#8217;s now been more than a week since Senate Republicans released a serious proposal for another major rescue package. A trillion dollars for kids, jobs, and health care. But Democrats are blocking it all. It&#8217;s like they expect applause for merely keeping a civil tone with the president&#8217;s team, never mind they&#8217;re still obstructing any action for our country.
Senate Republicans want to revive a federal add-on to unemployment insurance which the Democratic leader would not let us extend last week. We want to send another round of direct checks straight into families&#8217; pockets. We want to supply generous new incentives for rehiring American workers and workplace safety. We want to send historic money to schools for reopening and invest even more in testing and vaccine research. We want legal protections so schools, churches, charities, and businesses can reopen.
The Democrats say they want many of the same things. I certainly believe that many of my Democratic colleagues who serve as ranking members want many of the same things and could easily find common ground with our chairmen if the Democratic leader would let them talk. But instead we&#8217;ve gotten a full week of the speaker of the house and the Democratic leader shutting out all of their own members and refusing to move an inch, an inch off of demands that everyone knows are outlandish. The Democratic leaders want the entirety of their massive far-left wish list, all of it.
Speaker Pelosi is still agitating for strange, new special interests carve-outs for the marijuana industry and even claiming they were COVID related. She said that with respect to this virus, marijuana is, quote, &#8216;a therapy that is proven successful.&#8217; You can&#8217;t make this up. I hope she shared her breakthrough with Dr. Fauci.</blockquote>
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Lawmakers On Capitol Hill Begin Work On Next Phase Of Stimulus Plan

McConnell Smokes Pelosi Over Marijuana-COVID Claim: ‘Hope She Shared Her Breakthrough With Dr. Fauci’

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On Monday morning, Kentucky GOP Senator Rand Paul, angered by Dr. Anthony Fauci having lavished praise on New York Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo for his response to the coronavirus pandemic while studiously ignoring Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis’ much more successful response, fired off a tweet targeting Fauci. Paul tweeted, “FL and NY have an identical number of per capita coronavirus infections but FL has 5X less per capita deaths. Will Dr. Fauci be praising @GovRonDeSantis’ response to the pandemic? Will he point out that @NYGovCuomo’s response allowed a fivefold greater per capita death rate?”
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FL and NY have an identical number of per capita coronavirus infections but FL has 5X less per capita deaths. Will Dr. Fauci be praising <a href="https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovRonDeSantis</a>’ response to the pandemic? Will he point out that <a href="https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NYGovCuomo</a>’s response allowed a fivefold greater per capita death rate?
&mdash; Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) <a href="https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1290260362739105793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In mid-July, Fauci, the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was queried about the COVID-19 pandemic on <a href="https://6abc.com/covid-19-fauci-anthony-cuomo/6325350/">PBS’ NewsHour</a>. Anchor Judy Woodruff asked Fauci about a solution for increasing testing throughout the country. Fauci replied:
<blockquote>Again, we have a problem. We need to admit it and own it. But we have got to do the things that are very clear that we need to do to turn this around, remembering we can do it. We know that, when you do it properly, you bring down those cases. We have done it. We have done it in New York. New York got hit worse than any place in the world. And they did it correctly by doing the things that you&#8217;re talking about.</blockquote>
As of August 3, according to The New York Times, New York had <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/new-york-coronavirus-cases.html">reported</a> 421,008 cases of coronavirus with 32,401 deaths; Florida had <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/florida-coronavirus-cases.html">reported</a> at least 487,100 cases with 7,083 deaths. That amounts to 7.7% of the cases reported in New York eventuating in death, while in Florida roughly 1.5% of the cases resulted in death.
As <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/desantis-cuomo-quarantine-florida-new-york-nursing-homes">Fox News</a> noted, over 6,200 elderly residents may have died from COVID-19 in New York nursing homes according to <a href="https://www.health.ny.gov/statistics/diseases/covid-19/fatalities_nursing_home_acf.pdf">state health department statistics</a>. On March 25, the New York Department of Health issued an advisory that stated nursing homes had to accept residents returning from hospitals whether or not they had a diagnosis of COVID-19. The <a href="https://skillednursingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2020/03/DOH_COVID19__NHAdmissionsReadmissions__032520_1585166684475_0.pdf">advisory</a> stated:
<blockquote>During this global health emergency, all NHs must comply with the expedited receipt of residents returning from hospitals to NHs. Residents are deemed appropriate for return to a NH upon a determination by the hospital physician or designee that the resident is medically stable for return.  Hospital discharge planners must confirm to the NH, by telephone, that the resident is medically stable for discharge. Comprehensive discharge instructions must be provided by the hospital prior to the transport of a resident to the NH.
No resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the NH solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19.NHs are prohibited from requiring a hospitalized resident who is determined medically stable to be tested for COVID-19 prior to admission or readmission.</blockquote>
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/andrew-cuomo-finally-reverses-order-forcing-nursing-homes-to-take-covid-patients-demands-testing-for-care-workers">reported</a> on May 10 that a report from New York state authorities showed that &#8220;at least 4,813 residents with confirmed or presumed cases of COVID-19 have died at 351 of New York’s 613 nursing homes since March 1, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration’s new list,&#8221; according to <a href="https://time.com/5832141/new-york-nursing-home-death-toll/">Time Magazine</a>.
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Rand Paul Harshly Slams Fauci: You Praised Andrew Cuomo. Why Not DeSantis?

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Dr. Anthony Fauci&#8217;s newfound fame has been a &#8220;mixed-bag&#8221; that has attracted &#8220;unwanted attention,&#8221; according to his wife, Dr. Christine Grady, a bioethicist who is currently the chief of the National Institutes of Health Bioethics Department.
Speaking with <a href="https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a32715031/fauci-christine-grady-nih-covid/?fbclid=IwAR3U9HzLaQRyCIZitQI0Cq4C5LMGb-Kjwpv-ZovM1Sg24_IWAKFPFRQLwXQ">ELLE</a> back in June, Grady said that while she appreciates the American public&#8217;s idolization of her husband, it has its share of trouble.
“I mean, I think it’s great that he’s able to communicate with people in ways that make things clearer and that make people feel supported and calmer,&#8221; she told ELLE. &#8220;He’s working an unbelievable amount of hours and not taking many breaks for himself. I do think it’s resulted in what I would call unwanted attention on me and my children. That’s the unfortunate side.”
ELLE highlighted the media&#8217;s various efforts to transform Fauci into a rockstar for the ages:
<blockquote>It didn&#8217;t take long for the American public to lionize the soft-spoken infectious disease expert. His bespectacled face was meme-ified and printed on <a class="body-link" href="https://www.amazon.com/Anthony-Fauci-Keep-Hands-White/dp/B086R52SYG?tag=elle-soc-lift-20&amp;ascsubtag=[artid|10051.a.32715031[src|[ch|0979c1c30d36201c1360b55160d46ed2[lt|" target="_blank" rel="noopener noskim noreferrer" data-vars-ga-outbound-link="https://www.amazon.com/Anthony-Fauci-Keep-Hands-White/dp/B086R52SYG" data-affiliate="true">coffee mugs</a>, <a class="body-link" href="https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=74968X1525074&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.etsy.com%2Flisting%2F795288949%2Ffunny-fauci-face-mask-dr-fauci-face-mask%3Futm_custom1%3DVox.com%26source%3Daw%26utm_source%3Daffiliate_window%26utm_medium%3Daffiliate%26utm_campaign%3Dus_location_buyer%26utm_term%3D3657%26utm_content%3D78888%26awc%3D6220_1591747153_b3663c31fb2a75708acf43f2516cd9b0&amp;sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.elle.com%2Fculture%2Fcareer-politics%2Fa32715031%2Ffauci-christine-grady-nih-covid%2F%3Fpre%3Dculture%252Fcareer-politics%252F%26prefix%3Da%26id%3D32715031%26del%3D%26variantId%3D%26post%3D%252Ffauci-christine-grady-nih-covid" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-vars-ga-outbound-link="https://www.etsy.com/listing/795288949/funny-fauci-face-mask-dr-fauci-face-mask?utm_custom1=Vox.com&amp;source=aw&amp;utm_source=affiliate_window&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_campaign=us_location_buyer&amp;utm_term=3657&amp;utm_content=78888&amp;awc=6220_1591747153_b3663c31fb2a75708acf43f2516cd9b0" data-affiliate="true">masks</a>, and <a class="body-link" href="https://www.illuminidol.com/products/dr-anthony-fauci" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-vars-ga-outbound-link="https://www.illuminidol.com/products/dr-anthony-fauci">prayer candles</a>. He inspired <a class="body-link" href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/g5xed4/as-coronavirus-spreads-so-does-thirst-for-dr-anthony-fauci" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-vars-ga-outbound-link="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/g5xed4/as-coronavirus-spreads-so-does-thirst-for-dr-anthony-fauci">love songs</a> and appeared on late-night <a class="body-link" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/arts/television/late-night-anthony-fauci-coronavirus.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-vars-ga-outbound-link="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/arts/television/late-night-anthony-fauci-coronavirus.html">talk shows</a>. <a class="body-link" href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/20/how-anthony-fauci-became-americas-doctor" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-vars-ga-outbound-link="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/20/how-anthony-fauci-became-americas-doctor">The New Yorker</a> dubbed him “America’s Doctor,” and Brad Pitt played him on SNL.</blockquote>
26,000 people also signed a <a class="body-link" href="https://www.change.org/p/people-magazine-make-dr-anthony-fauci-people-magazine-s-sexiest-man-alive" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-vars-ga-outbound-link="https://www.change.org/p/people-magazine-make-dr-anthony-fauci-people-magazine-s-sexiest-man-alive">petition</a> for People magazine to select Fauci for this year&#8217;s &#8220;Sexiest Man Alive.&#8221; He has also become a <a class="body-link" href="https://store.bobbleheadhall.com/products/drfauci" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-vars-ga-outbound-link="https://store.bobbleheadhall.com/products/drfauci">best-selling bobblehead</a>. Ultimately, Grady yearns for the days of normalcy.
“There was no way to know that Tony would get as much attention as he’s gotten from the beginning,&#8221; she says. &#8220;We do talk and strategize about it&#8230; but it&#8217;s not something, really, you can do anything about.&#8221;
Grady&#8217;s current job in the COVID-19 crisis is to oversee the nation&#8217;s ethical response to the pandemic.
Speaking with <a href="https://1010wins.radio.com/articles/fauci-on-blowing-the-first-pitch-getting-death-threats">1010Wins</a> after his pitch at the Washington Nationals game, Fauci expounded a bit on the darker side of his newfound fame, including death threats.
&#8220;There is a big divisiveness in the country about politicizing this response to the COVID outbreak, where people feel that some of the public health measures that I’ve been advocating, which are purely for the purpose of preserving the health and safety of the American people, are interfering with their lives,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They don’t want to be told what to do and they get very hostile about it, and it’s just extraordinary. I was quite surprised and taken aback by the amount of threats, not only against me, but my family, my wife and my daughters.&#8221;
&#8220;It’s death threats to me, and inappropriate harassing of my wife and my children,&#8221; he added. &#8220;They’re getting, they know what their phone numbers (are),  they know where they work, because everything seems to be public, and they harass them. It’s very unsettling.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-tucker-carlson-rips-fauci-as-a-fraud">WATCH: Tucker Carlson Rips Fauci As ‘A Fraud’</a>
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Fauci’s Wife: His Fame Is A ‘Mixed-Bag,’ Attracts ‘Unwanted Attention’

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Fox News host Tucker Carlson tore into Dr. Anthony Fauci during his show Friday night, alleging that the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is &#8220;a fraud&#8221; who frequently wades into political discussions despite claiming otherwise.
During a segment in which he described Fauci as &#8220;likely the most powerful physician in the history of this country,&#8221; Carlson played a clip of Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/do-you-see-the-inconsistency-jim-jordan-grills-fauci-on-protests-church-during-pandemic" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">grilling</a> Fauci earlier this week about the seemingly lopsided response from health officials regarding the danger of mass protests compared to other activities such as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/compliance-would-be-disobedience-prominent-california-church-defies-state-lockdown-to-resume-in-person-assembly" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">going to church</a>.
&#8220;So the protests don&#8217;t increase the spread of the virus?&#8221; Jordan asked at one point, to which Fauci responded, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t say that. You&#8217;re putting words in my mouth.&#8221; When Jordan continued to press him, Fauci eventually said, &#8220;I can tell you that crowds are known, particularly when you don&#8217;t have a mask, to increase the acquisition and transmission, no matter what the crowd is.&#8221;
Fauci nevertheless maintained that he was &#8220;not in a position to determine what the government can do in a forceful way&#8221; in terms of limiting things such as large protests, but Jordan hit back, saying, &#8220;Well, you make all kinds of recommendations. You make comments on dating, on baseball, on everything you can imagine. I’m just asking, you just said protests increase the spread. I’m just asking should we try to limit the protest?&#8221;
Lauding Jordan as &#8220;finally a member of Congress capable of asking a follow-up question,&#8221; Carlson said Jordan is &#8220;absolutely right,&#8221; and reiterated Jordan&#8217;s point that despite Fauci&#8217;s reticence during the congressional hearing to &#8220;opine on limiting anything,&#8221; he has been more than willing to offer his opinions on many other things, many of which have had profound consequences.
&#8220;There is nothing that Dr. Anthony Fauci won&#8217;t opine on, as long as it doesn&#8217;t offend the popular, the fashionable Left. &#8216;Sex with strangers online? No problem! Shaking hands? Bad!&#8217; Every day for the past several months, virtually, Dr. Fauci has advocated for a new coronavirus policy.&#8221; After playing a recent clip showing Fauci making recommendations for specific government responses to the coronavirus, Carlson said, &#8220;What a fraud this guy is!&#8221;
Carlson went on to place blame for the cratering U.S. economy largely on Fauci&#8217;s advice. &#8220;Fauci is 79, but maybe if he had, like, 22-year-old kids who are trying to make their way in this world in an economy that is headed down the tubes, thanks largely to his recommendations, he would feel differently,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not merely an inconvenience when your economy collapses. It&#8217;s the end of the American dream. That&#8217;s not a small thing. Maybe it&#8217;s worth it, maybe it&#8217;s not. But if it is, then you probably shouldn&#8217;t take a pass on the question, &#8216;Are protests and riots okay?&#8217; unless you&#8217;re a total fraud, like a complete fraud,&#8221; added Carlson.
Carlson has criticized Fauci before and questioned what he has characterized as the <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/coronavirus-report/497569-tucker-carlson-labels-fauci-chief-buffoon-of-the-professional" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">quasi-religious faith</a> many place in his expertise. In May, Carlson highlighted times when Fauci had contradicted himself on the seriousness of the coronavirus and the efficacy of masks. Referencing when Fauci cautioned shaking hands despite giving the green light to hook-up apps, Carlson said, &#8220;This is buffoon-level stuff at that point, and we are not doing this to mock the guy.&#8221;
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fauci-suggests-wearing-goggles-for-better-protection-against-covid-19" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Fauci Suggests Wearing Goggles For Better Protection Against COVID-19</a>
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WATCH: Tucker Carlson Rips Fauci As ‘A Fraud’

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Rep. Jim Jordan grilled Dr. Anthony Fauci on Friday about the spread of COVID-19, particularly among protesters, and the unequal treatment of protests, churches, and businesses throughout the pandemic.
Jordan (R-OH) asked Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, if he thought the government should crack down on protests similar to how the government has banned churches from congregating or businesses from operating. After admitting that crowds of people increase the chance of spreading the disease, Fauci demurred on whether the government should ban protests.
“I’m not in a position to determine what the government can do in a forceful way,” Fauci said.
“Well, you make all kinds of recommendations. You make comments on dating, on baseball, on everything you can imagine. I’m just asking, you just said protests increase the spread. I’m just asking should we try to limit the protest?” Jordan pressed.
“Government is stopping people from going to church, Dr. Fauci. Last week, in the Calvary Chapel case, five liberals on the Supreme Court said is was okay for Nevada to limit church services. Justice Gorsuch said it best, he said ‘there is no world in which the Constitution permits Nevada to favor Caesar’s Palace over Calvary Chapel.’ I’m just asking is there a world where the Constitution says you can favor one first amendment liberty, protesting, over another, practicing your faith?” Jordan continued.
“I’m not favoring anybody over anybody. I’m just making a statement that’s a broad statement that avoid crowds of any type no matter where you are because that leads to the acquisition and transmission,” Fauci said. “I don’t judge one crowd versus another crowd. When you’re in a crowd, particularly when you are not wearing a mask, that induces spread.”
Jordan brought up the case of Ian Smith and Frank Trumbetti, who co-own a gym in New Jersey. Both men were arrested earlier this week after opening their business up in violation of state health mandates and refusing to shut down again for weeks. Jordan asked Fauci if the doctor saw a double standard in the way governments have treated business owners versus mass protests.
“Do you see the inconsistency, though, Dr. Fauci?” Jordan asked.
Fauci answered, “There’s no inconsistency, congressman.”
Jordan continued to press Fauci on what the government’s stance toward protests should be given that other activities guaranteed by the First Amendment, such as religious practice, are being stifled. The health official continued to refuse to take a position on the protests.
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President Trump later praised Jordan for the exchange, as well as Fauci for his appearance in Congress.
“Great job by Jim Jordan, and also some very good statements by Tony Fauci. Big progress being made!” Trump tweeted.
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Great job by Jim Jordan, and also some very good statements by Tony Fauci. Big progress being made! <a href="https://t.co/8Oeca9H3yq">https://t.co/8Oeca9H3yq</a>
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1289260338135699456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Below is a transcript of Jordan and Fauci&#8217;s exchange:
<blockquote>Jordan: Do protests increase the spread of the virus?
Fauci: Do protests increase the spread of the virus? I think I can make a general statement.
J: Half a million protesters on June 6 alone, I’m asking that number of people, does it increase the spread of the virus?
F: Yeah, crowding together, particularly when you are not wearing a mask, contributes to the spread of the virus.
J: Should we limit the protesting?
F: I’m not sure what you mean. How do we say “limit the protesting?”
J: Does the government limit the protesting?
F: I don’t think that’s relevant to-
J: Well, you just said if it increases the spread of the virus. I’m just asking if we should limit it.
F: Well, I’m not in a position to determine what the government can do in a forceful way.
J: Well, you make all kinds of recommendations. You make comments on dating, on baseball, on everything you can imagine. I’m just asking, you just said protests increase the spread. I’m just asking should we try to limit the protest?
F: I think I would leave that to people who have more of a position to do that. I can tell you-
J: Government is stopping people from going to church Dr. Fauci. Last week, in the Calvary Chapel case five liberals on the Supreme Court said is was okay for Nevada to limit church services. Justice Gorsuch said it best, he said “there is no world in which the Constitution permits Nevada to favor Caesar’s Palace over Calvary Chapel.” I’m just asking is there a world where the Constitution says you can favor one first amendment liberty, protesting, over another, practicing your faith?
F: I’m not favoring anybody over anybody. I’m just making a statement that’s a broad statement that avoid crowds of any type no matter where you are because that leads to the acquisition and transmission. And I don’t judge one crowd versus another crowd. When you’re in a crowd, particularly when you are not wearing a mask, that induces spread.
J: It’s a simple question, doctor. Should we limit the protests? Government is obviously limiting people going to church, and, look, there has been no violence that I can see at church. I haven’t seen people during a church service go out and harm police officers or burn buildings. But we know that for 63 days, nine weeks its been happening in Portland. One night in Chicago, 49 officers were injured. No limit to protest but, boy, you can’t go to church on Sunday.
F: I don’t know how many times I can answer that I am not going to opine on limiting anything, I’m just going to tell you-
J: You’ve opined on a lot of things, Dr. Fauci.this is something that directly impacts the spread of the virus and I’m asking your position on the protests.
F: Yeah, well, I’m not going to opine on limiting anything. I’m telling you what it is the danger, and you can make your own conclusion about that. You should stay away from crowds no matter where the crowds are.
J: Government has stopped people from going to work. In fact, just in New Jersey four days ago Ian Smith and Frank Trumbetti were arrested for opening up, for trying to operate their business, their gym. They were arrested, but my bet is if these two individuals who owned this gym were outside just in front of their gym, and all the people who were working out in there gym were outside protesting they would have been just fine, but because they were in the gym, working out, actually running their business, they got arrested. You think that’s okay?
F: You know, I’m not going to opine on who gets arrested and who does not. I mean, you get where I’m going? I’m telling you as a public health official, I say crowds-
J: Do you see the inconsistency, though, Dr. Fauci?
F: There’s no inconsistency, congressman.
J: So you’re allowed to protest millions of people on one day in crowds yelling, screaming, but you try to run your business you get arrested? And if you stood right outside that same business and protested you wouldn’t get arrested? You don’t see an inconsistency there?
F: I don’t understand what you are asking me as a public health official to opine on who should get arrested or not. That’s not my position. You can ask as much as you want and I’m not going to answer it.
J: You’ve advocated for certain businesses to be shut down, I’m just asking you on your position on the protests. We’ve hear a lot about hair salons. I haven’t seen one hair stylist, who between hair cuts, goes out and attacks police and sets something on fire, But we’ve seen all kinds of that stuff during protests, and we know that protests actually increase the spread of the virus. You’ve said that.
F: I said crowds. I didn’t say specifically, I didn’t say protests do anything.
J: So the protests don’t increase the spread of the virus?
F: I didn’t say that. You’re putting words in my mouth.
J: I just want an answer to the question. Do the protests increase the spread of the virus?
F: I don’t have any scientific evidence that anything, I can tell you that crowds are known, particularly when you don’t have a mask, to increase the acquisition and transmission, no matter what the crowd is.
J: So you don’t have a position on whether protests increase the spread of the virus or don’t increase the spread of the virus?
F: I’m saying that crowds, wherever the crowds are, can give you an increased probability that there is going to be acquisition and transmission of it.
J: But do you understand Americans’ concern? Protesting, particularly according to the Democrats, is just fine but you can’t go to work, you can’t go to school, you can’t go to church. There’s limits placed on all three of those fundamental activities, First Amendment activities, but protesting is just fine.</blockquote>
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Jim Jordan

‘Do You See The Inconsistency?’ Jim Jordan Grills Fauci On Protests, Church During Pandemic

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, does not believe the United States will have to go on lockdown again.
Speaking <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2020/07/31/fauci-another-lockdown-coronavirus-pandemic-curve-impossible-predict-town-hall-bts-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/coronavirus/">with CNN&#8217;s Anderson Cooper</a> and Dr. Sanjay Gupta on Thursday, Fauci responded to a outside caller who asked if the country will have to go on lockdown; he did not think that was necessary.
&#8220;I don’t think we need to go to lockdown again and shelter in place,&#8221; Fauci said. &#8220;There are situations, as I’ve mentioned to you before, in multiple interviews, where, when they were trying to open up a state or a city, that there were certain guidelines that were skipped over. Maybe you’re in phase two, and you need to pause and maybe go back to phase one. That’s entirely conceivable and may be recommended.&#8221;
Though some regions and cities may need to look at going back to phase one, Fauci did not believe that would be true across the country if people followed five principles: wearing a mask, keeping physical distance, avoiding bars, keeping good hand hygiene, and avoiding large crowds.
&#8220;I don’t think we need to go all the way back to lockdown,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And the reason I say that is that we’re learning more and more. If you do five fundamental principles, in any situation, one, wear a mask all the time, consistently, when you’re outside, and can be exposed. Number two, keep physical distance. Number three, avoid bars or close bars if you can. Keep away from crowds, big congregations, and maintain hand hygiene.&#8221;
&#8220;Those are five not-rocket-science things that one can do. And we know when you do that, and states that have done that, they’ve actually flattened the surging curve and are starting to come down. So, bottom line, right now, I don’t think we need to go to lockdown,&#8221; he concluded.
During the same interview, Fauci <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/dr-fauci-wear-goggles-eye-shields-prevent-spread/story?id=72059055?id=72059055&amp;amp_js_v=0.1&amp;usqp=mq331AQFKAGwASA=&amp;cid=referral_taboola_feed">clarified remarks</a> he made this week about potentially wearing eye goggles alongside a mask. According to the doctor, his words were just a recommendation to people who want to be extra cautious but were not meant to be broad advice.
This past May, nearly two months after the lockdowns hit, Fauci said that closing the country down too long could have &#8220;irreparable damage.&#8221;
&#8220;We can’t stay locked down for such a considerable period of time that you might do irreparable damage and have unintended consequences including consequences for health,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And it’s for that reason why the guidelines are being put forth so that the states and the cities can start to reenter and reopen. So we are enthusiastic about reopening, and I think we can do it in a pace that would be reasonable and that would get us back as a society from a morale standpoint as well as the economy. I don’t want people to think that any of us feel that staying locked down for a prolonged period of time is the way to go.&#8221;
RELATED: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fauci-staying-closed-too-long-will-cause-irreparable-damage">Fauci: Staying Closed Too Long Will Cause ‘Irreparable Damage’</a>
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President Trump Visits American Red Cross Headquarters

Fauci: ‘I Don’t Think We Need To Go To Lockdown Again’

Dr. Anthony Fauci has suggested that people should wear goggles or face shields to get added protection from contracting the coronavirus, according to a report.
“If you have goggles or an eye shield, you should use it,” Fauci, an immunologist and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who serves on the White House Coronavirus Task Force, told <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/dr-fauci-wear-goggles-eye-shields-prevent-spread/story?id=72059055?id=72059055&amp;amp_js_v=0.1&amp;usqp=mq331AQFKAGwASA=&amp;cid=referral_taboola_feed">ABC News</a> Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton on Wednesday.
“You have mucosa in the nose, mucosa in the mouth, but you also have mucosa in the eye,” he said. “Theoretically, you should protect all the mucosal surfaces. So, if you have goggles or an eye shield, you should use it.”
The doctor said that while goggles and eye or face shields are “not universally recommended” currently, “if you really want to be complete, you should probably use it if you can.” Asked if eye protection could become an official recommendation, Fauci said, “It might, if you really want perfect protection of the mucosal surfaces.”
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Dr. Anthony Fauci to <a href="https://twitter.com/DrJAshton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DrJAshton</a>: &quot;If you have goggles or an eye shield, you should use it. It&#39;s not universally recommended, but if you really want to be complete, you should probably use it if you can.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/SJPZn8fN6F">https://t.co/SJPZn8fN6F</a> <a href="https://t.co/Ml87aBuclI">pic.twitter.com/Ml87aBuclI</a>
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During his interview, Fauci also said he hopes Americans wearing masks in the fall will also stem the spread of the flu. “It is inevitable that we’re going to have some degree of flu,” he said. “I’m hoping that the wearing of masks and other coverings are going to not only protect us against COVID-19, but also help protect us against influenza.”
There was initial confusion over masks. U.S. Surgeon General Jerome M. Adams on Feb. 29 delivered a message for Americans worried about the coronavirus: Stop buying masks.
“Seriously people — STOP BUYING MASKS!” tweeted Adams, an anesthesiologist who has been surgeon general since 2017. “They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!” Adams wrote.
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Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS! 
They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Coronavirus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Coronavirus</a>, but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk! <a href="https://t.co/UxZRwxxKL9">https://t.co/UxZRwxxKL9</a>
&mdash; U.S. Surgeon General (@Surgeon_General) <a href="https://twitter.com/Surgeon_General/status/1233725785283932160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 29, 2020</a></blockquote>
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But that was months ago, when worried Americans were busy emptying shelves of all medical masks. Doctors and immunologists now believe that masks help stem the spread from those who have the virus to the uninfected, and many states have issued orders for residents to wear masks when in public places.
By early April, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/diy-cloth-face-coverings.html?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fcoronavirus%2F2019-ncov%2Fprevent-getting-sick%2Fcloth-face-cover-faq.html">recommended masks</a>:
<blockquote>Cloth face coverings may help prevent people who have COVID-19 from spreading the virus to others. Wearing a cloth face covering will help protect people around you, including those at higher risk of severe illness from COVID-19 and workers who frequently come into close contact with other people. Cloth face coverings are most likely to reduce the spread of COVID-19 when they are widely used by people in public settings. The spread of COVID-19 can be reduced when cloth face coverings are used along with other preventive measures, including social distancing, frequent handwashing, and cleaning and disinfecting frequently touched surfaces.</blockquote>
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Senate Help Committee Holds Hearing On Safely Going Back To Work And School During Pandemic

Fauci Suggests Wearing Goggles For Better Protection Against COVID-19

Dr. Anthony Fauci, an immunologist and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who serves on the White House coronavirus task force, is a household name and, according to a recent survey, one of the most trusted men in America.
In a national poll conducted by The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/27/upshot/coronavirus-americans-trust-experts.html" data-analytics-module="summary_bullets" data-analytics-post-depth="0">New York Times</a> and Siena College in the middle of June, 76% of respondents said they trusted Fauci for &#8220;accurate information&#8221; about the COVID-19 pandemic, compared with 26% who said they trusted President Trump.
But the 79-year-old apparently couldn&#8217;t be trusted to know how far a Major League Baseball mound is from home plate.
For the record, the distance is 60 feet 6 inches from the back of the pitcher&#8217;s &#8220;rubber&#8221; to the rear point of the plate.
The doctor threw out the first pitch at the Washington, D.C., team&#8217;s home opener last week, and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/27/us/politics/trump-yankees-fauci.html">the Times</a> reported on Monday that he &#8220;was determined to come to the Nationals mound prepared. Growing up in Brooklyn, he played shortstop on a local Catholic youth team. Days before the pitch on Thursday, he went to Horace Mann, an elementary school in northwest Washington, to rehearse on the lawn.&#8221;
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“I pitched and pitched,” he said in an interview on Monday. “I threw my arm out. I hadn’t thrown a baseball literally in decades. After I practiced, my arm was hanging around my feet.” But he said he made a fatal error. Without a baseball field at the school to practice on, he had to measure 60 feet — the distance from a major-league mound to home plate — himself, and accidentally came up about 20 feet short.
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When Fauci arrived on the mound at Nationals Park, he quickly learned that he was much farther from home plate. He pulled his arm back high, then misfired the ball well to the left,  diagonally into the grass, far from pitcher Sean Doolittle, who had been picked to play catcher for the pitch.
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“He looked to me like he was like 500 feet away. That made me throw it much harder than I had been practicing,” Fauci said. “I completely miscalculated the distance from the mound.”
The doctor&#8217;s frank admission drew some scorn on social media.
&#8220;The brilliant mind responsible for modeling the future of COVID-19 and predicting the implications of lockdowns fails to model the correct distance from a pitchers mound,&#8221; one person <a href="https://twitter.com/AzJack65/status/1288118418164420612">wrote</a> on Twitter.
Wrote <a href="https://twitter.com/txsportsnerd/status/1288119304857124869">another</a>: &#8220;He’s got an excuse for everything, though not sure how a straight line being 20 feet longer makes you throw it 20 feet in a totally different direction. If he’s that bad at &#8216;calculating,&#8217; perhaps we should’ve had someone else on AIDS/HIV.&#8221;
&#8220;Babylon Bee had a great headline the day of the errant pitch: &#8220;CNN Calls Dr. Fauci&#8217;s Wild Pitch &#8216;100% Accurate, Completely On Target&#8217;.&#8221;
&#8220;CNN is reporting that the ceremonial first pitch to open up the 2020 season at Nationals Park, which was thrown wildly off the mark by none other than Dr. Anthony Fauci, was 100% accurate, completely on target, and a &#8216;real strike.'&#8221; said the satirical website.
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Fauci Explains His Errant Opening Day Pitch: ‘Completely Miscalculated Distance From The Mound’

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President Trump has decided not to throw out the first pitch at a New York Yankees game next month, citing meetings and continued work on the response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
&#8220;Because of my strong focus on the China Virus, including scheduled meetings on Vaccines, our economy and much else, I won’t be able to be in New York to throw out the opening pitch for the @Yankees on August 15th. We will make it later in the season!&#8221; Trump wrote on Twitter.
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Because of my strong focus on the China Virus, including scheduled meetings on Vaccines, our economy and much else, I won’t be able to be in New York to throw out the opening pitch for the <a href="https://twitter.com/Yankees?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Yankees</a> on August 15th. We will make it later in the season!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1287473812733341696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Trump last week began teasing throwing out a first pitch at a Major League Baseball game.
During a press conference on Thursday, he was asked about Dr. Anthony Fauci, an immunologist and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who serves on the White House Coronavirus Task Force, throwing out the first pitch that night at a Washington Nationals game.
“I think I’m doing that on Aug. 15 at Yankee Stadium,&#8221; he said. “And I say, ‘How’s the crowd going to be?’ And, you know, it’s like you don’t have a crowd,” he added.
“The key is to get back to normal,” the president said. “Nobody wants to see this. I think it is really good that baseball is opening. It looks like football is opening. It looks like sports are opening. It’s a tremendous thing psychologically for our country.”
While Fauci was applauded for throwing out the first pitch (which drew a slew of hilarious comments on social media), Trump was roundly ripped for teasing out that he&#8217;d be doing the same thing.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio wrote on Twitter that the Yankees were on “the wrong side of history and morality.”
“After CONDEMNING racism, the next step isn’t inviting it to your pitcher’s mound,” the Democrat tweeted. “To the players that knelt for the BLM movement, we applaud you. To the execs that have aligned with hatred, you are on the wrong side of history and morality.”
Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz also decried Trump, saying in a statement: “I am shocked and outraged by the New York Yankees’ decision to invite President Donald Trump to throw out the first pitch at Yankee Stadium on August 15. We all deserve better than a careless major league baseball organization that consistently ignores the surrounding community while pandering to an unapologetic white supremacist like Donald Trump.&#8221;
But Trump was ridiculed on social media for bailing on the first pitch, too.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think he can throw a pitch. Even a Fauci pitch,&#8221; wrote Joyce Alene, a law professor and MSNBC contributor.
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I don&#39;t think he can throw a pitch. Even a Fauci pitch.
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Others on Twitter, though, posted videos of Trump firing a strike at a baseball game in 2004, when he landed his helicopter in center field to throw out the first pitch for the Somerset Patriots in Bridgewater Township, NJ.
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Dude just casually hits the rubber and launches a ROCKET. <a href="https://t.co/rTmZfL2J5K">pic.twitter.com/rTmZfL2J5K</a>
&mdash; Jimmy Tacos 🌮 (@Jimmy__Tacos) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jimmy__Tacos/status/1286873245736632320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 25, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Fauci&#8217;s pitch, though, did not go well.
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Anthony Fauci, First Pitch Mechanics. <a href="https://t.co/QxszDQJDuu">pic.twitter.com/QxszDQJDuu</a>
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Trump Bails Out Of Throwing First Pitch At Yankees Game

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On Thursday evening, White House Coronavirus Task Force leader Dr. Anthony Fauci, fresh off an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dr-fauci-lands-instyle-magazine-shoot-before-first-lady-melania-trump">InStyle magazine spread</a>, threw out the first pitch at the Washington Nationals’ game in Washington, D.C.
Photos were taken of Dr. Fauci sitting in the stadium while wearing his mask around his chin, laughing and seemingly engaging in conversation with a man sitting to his immediate right, closer than six feet away. His wife, Dr. Christine Grady, was sitting in the seat to his immediate left, also not the recommended six feet away.
The seeming contradiction between Fauci&#8217;s mask/social distancing rhetoric and his actions struck a chord online, leading some to criticize the doctor.
&#8220;Dumping on Dr. Fauci for his errant first pitch is kinda dumb,&#8221; reporter Jeryl Bier said, referencing the doctor&#8217;s wild first pitch. &#8220;Time and energy would be better spent clarifying his position on mask-wearing.&#8221;
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Dumping on Dr. Fauci for his errant first pitch is kinda dumb. Time and energy would be better spent clarifying his position on mask-wearing. <a href="https://t.co/CPEq9NV6Qb">https://t.co/CPEq9NV6Qb</a> <a href="https://t.co/JhSM2rUdkT">pic.twitter.com/JhSM2rUdkT</a>
&mdash; Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) <a href="https://twitter.com/JerylBier/status/1286652459738370048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 24, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I have been generally supportive of Dr. Fauci, but I think it&#8217;s worth asking him about mask usage and how he personally uses one and under what circumstances,&#8221; Bier added. &#8220;One of these photos is AP (Associated Press), one is USA Today.&#8221;
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I have been generally supportive of Dr. Fauci, but I think it&#39;s worth asking him about mask usage and how he personally uses one and under what circumstances. One of these photos is AP, one is USA Today. <a href="https://t.co/2ctFdhOPcr">https://t.co/2ctFdhOPcr</a><a href="https://t.co/w2Vm45mL4i">https://t.co/w2Vm45mL4i</a> <a href="https://t.co/EjcnQPmbx3">pic.twitter.com/EjcnQPmbx3</a>
&mdash; Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) <a href="https://twitter.com/JerylBier/status/1286639488362516481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 24, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson, who&#8217;s been critical of the mainstream media coronavirus narrative, mockingly posted, &#8220;And there’s Dr. Anthony Fauci showing us all he knows exactly how well masks work! Thanks for the lesson, doc.&#8221;
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And there’s Dr. Anthony Fauci showing us all he knows exactly how well masks work! Thanks for the lesson, doc. <a href="https://t.co/jdHPzq5HfB">pic.twitter.com/jdHPzq5HfB</a>
&mdash; Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1286517178309779457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 24, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;For the courage to tell the rest of us to wear masks and not attend sporting events, Fauci is honored by not having to wear a mask and getting to attend sporting events,&#8221; Jeremy Boreing snarked. &#8220;For the courage to tell the rest of us not to burn fossil fuels, [Al Gore] is honored by flying private jets.&#8221;
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For the courage to tell the rest of us to wear masks and not attend sporting events, Fauci is honored by not having to wear a mask and getting to attend sporting events. 
For the courage to tell the rest of us not to burn fossil fuels, <a href="https://twitter.com/algore?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@algore</a> is honored by flying private jets. <a href="https://t.co/7cmOHeTp7n">https://t.co/7cmOHeTp7n</a>
&mdash; Jeremy Boreing (@JeremyDBoreing) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyDBoreing/status/1286697179155804161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 24, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Popular conservative Twitter politico Noam Blum noted of Fauci&#8217;s increasing and welcomed celebrity status.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve noticed that Fauci has become less serious the more effusive love he gets. I think Harvey Dent was slightly off: You either die a hero, or become a big enough celebrity to see yourself become the villain,&#8221; he wrote.
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I&#39;ve noticed that Fauci has become less serious the more effusive love he gets. I think Harvey Dent was slightly off: You either die a hero, or become a big enough celebrity to see yourself become the villain. <a href="https://t.co/wSDVqNMelv">pic.twitter.com/wSDVqNMelv</a>
&mdash; Noam Blum (@neontaster) <a href="https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1286667854465634306?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 24, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Looks like Dr. Fauci forget to actually use his face mask while watching the Kaepernickers playing baseball,&#8221; said conservative host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shapiro-to-levin-whats-happening-here-is-not-even-right-versus-left-its-radical-left-versus-everybody-else">Mark Levin</a>. &#8220;I’m sure the media will question him about it.  After all, as he says, we’re in this together and everyone needs to obey the the science.&#8221;
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Looks like Dr. Fauci forget to actually use his face mask while watching the Kaepernickers playing baseball.  I’m sure the media will question him about it.  After all, as he says, we’re in this together and everyone needs to obey the the science. H/T WTOP<a href="https://t.co/placCoe2E9">https://t.co/placCoe2E9</a> <a href="https://t.co/uC9ZwZF2Lj">pic.twitter.com/uC9ZwZF2Lj</a>
&mdash; Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) <a href="https://twitter.com/marklevinshow/status/1286657213478699010?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 24, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Nick Adams quoted the doctor telling others to &#8220;wear a mask,&#8221; captioning the photo of Fauci with his mask down around his chin.
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As noted by <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jul/24/dr-anthony-fauci-says-photo-him-without-mask-baseb/">The Washington Times</a>, Fauci responded Friday, telling Fox News that his critics were acting &#8220;mischievous,&#8221; and he was merely lowing the mask to drink water.
“I was drinking water trying to rehydrate myself,” he said.
“I wear a mask all the time when I am outside,” Fauci contended. “If people want to make something about that they can, but to me, I think that is mischievous.”
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Fauci tells Fox he pulled his mask down to drink water, and calls his online critics over it &quot;mischievous&quot;. <a href="https://t.co/NMSQvjJpBR">pic.twitter.com/NMSQvjJpBR</a>
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During an interview with <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/anthony-fauci-tells-marketwatch-i-would-not-get-on-a-plane-or-eat-inside-a-restaurant-2020-07-24">MarketWatch</a> on Thursday, Fauci said he was &#8220;very pleased to hear&#8221; that President Donald Trump was finally taking his mask advice seriously.
“I think he’s made a very good choice,&#8221; said the infectious disease expert. &#8220;He’s embracing masking, he’s embracing physical distancing, and that’s a very good thing.”
He also directly scolded millennials and young adults who don&#8217;t wear a mask or socially distance: “You don’t realize, probably innocently, that you are inadvertently propagating the outbreak. You are becoming part of the problem because, even if you get infected without any symptoms, it is likely that you are going to infect someone else.”
“Sooner or later, a vulnerable person gets infected and gets seriously ill,&#8221; he later added. &#8220;You should realize that it is your duty and your civic responsibility: You could be hurting someone else. That’s a tough message to get because some young people feel completely invulnerable.”
Earlier this month, American Airlines said they would investigate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/american-airlines-investigating-ted-cruz-after-dem-operative-caught-him-without-a-mask-on-flight">Sen. Ted Cruz</a> (R-TX) after a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee operative snapped a photo of the senator on board with his mask off while holding a cup, which Cruz later confirmed to be coffee.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dr-fauci-lands-instyle-magazine-shoot-before-first-lady-melania-trump">Dr. Fauci Lands InStyle Magazine Shoot Before First Lady Melania Trump</a>
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PHOTOS: Fauci Ripped For Taking Off Mask At Baseball Game, Slams ‘Mischievous’ Critics In Response

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, threw a disastrous first pitch on Thursday night when the Washington Nationals hosted the New York Yankees.
Turning Point USA Chief Creative Officer Benny Johnson posted the video on Twitter, writing, &#8220;Fauci’s first pitch was about as accurate and disciplined as his preparations and predictions for the China Virus.&#8221;
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Fauci’s first pitch was about as accurate and disciplined as his preparations and predictions for the China Virus
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Players from both teams kneeled to pay tribute to the Black Lives Matter movement, a far-left organization.
The Twitter account for Major League Baseball tweeted: “Today, and every day, we come together as brothers. As equals, all with the same goal – to level the playing field. To change the injustices. Equality is not just a word. It’s our right! Today we stand as men from 25 nations on 6 continents. Today, we are one.&#8221;
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Today, and every day, we come together as brothers. As equals, all with the same goal &#8211; to level the playing field. To change the injustices. Equality is not just a word. It’s our right!
Today we stand as men from 25 nations on 6 continents.
Today, we are one. <a href="https://t.co/vKUGdRfwgQ">pic.twitter.com/vKUGdRfwgQ</a>
&mdash; MLB (@MLB) <a href="https://twitter.com/MLB/status/1286447636564914176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Black Lives Matter leaders have admitted to being &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-black-lives-matter-founder-goal-is-to-remove-trump-reveals-marxist-ideology">trained Marxists</a>&#8221; and one leader threatened to &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/black-lives-matter-leader-if-this-country-doesnt-give-us-what-we-want-then-we-will-burn-down-the-system">burn down the system</a>&#8221; if &#8220;this country doesn&#8217;t give us what we want.&#8221;
The organization states on its website:
<blockquote>We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.</blockquote>
The Heritage Foundation <a href="https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/commentary/the-agenda-black-lives-matter-far-different-the-slogan">adds</a>:
<blockquote>A partner organization, the Movement for Black Lives, or M4BL, calls for abolishing all police and all prisons. It also calls for a “progressive restructuring of tax codes at the local, state and federal levels to ensure a radical and sustainable redistribution of wealth.”
Another M4BL demand is “the retroactive decriminalization, immediate release and record ­expungement of all drug-related offenses and prostitution and reparations for the devastating impact of the ‘war on drugs’ and criminalization of prostitution.”</blockquote>
Online, Fauci was widely mocked over the disastrous pitch, including from left-wing media.
CNN&#8217;s John Harwood tweeted, &#8220;How is this possible? Fauci’s an athlete.”
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how is this possible? Fauci’s an athlete <a href="https://t.co/YqB87xrIBo">https://t.co/YqB87xrIBo</a>
&mdash; John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1286445212164857856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Donald Trump Jr. tweeted: &#8220;Just a bit outside!!!&#8221;
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Just a bit outside!!! <a href="https://t.co/pf7hA99z3n">pic.twitter.com/pf7hA99z3n</a>
&mdash; Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1286451848887468032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 24, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) tweeted: &#8220;Fauci’s first pitch came closer to the plate than any of his COVID-19 predictions.&#8221;
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Fauci’s first pitch came closer to the plate than any of his COVID-19 predictions. <a href="https://t.co/v6tNY1WWgg">https://t.co/v6tNY1WWgg</a>
&mdash; Rep Andy Biggs (@RepAndyBiggsAZ) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepAndyBiggsAZ/status/1286443647576178688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Political commentator Steve Deace tweeted: &#8220;If that&#8217;s not a metaphor for Fauci&#8217;s ‘public service’ during this pandemic I don&#8217;t know what is.&#8221;
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If that&#39;s not a metaphor for Fauci&#39;s &quot;public service&quot; during this pandemic I don&#39;t know what is. <a href="https://t.co/lZrudujFeP">https://t.co/lZrudujFeP</a>
&mdash; Steve Deace (@SteveDeaceShow) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveDeaceShow/status/1286452051208212480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 24, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Blaze&#8217;s Tyler Cardon tweeted: &#8220;You can’t convince me this man had ever thrown a baseball before this attempt.&#8221;
Political commentator Dave Rubin responded, &#8220;&#8216;Never throw a baseball while wearing a mask.&#8217; —- Dr. Fauci, tomorrow, probably.&#8221;
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“Never throw a baseball while wearing a mask.” —- Dr. Fauci, tomorrow, probably. <a href="https://t.co/PI0Ttt8Hxq">https://t.co/PI0Ttt8Hxq</a>
&mdash; Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) <a href="https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/1286456524533948416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 24, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Political commentator Mike Cernovich tweeted: &#8220;Never a straight shot from Fauci.&#8221;
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Never a straight shot from Fauci. <a href="https://t.co/JoN8UJ6fg5">https://t.co/JoN8UJ6fg5</a>
&mdash; Cernovich Football Team (@Cernovich) <a href="https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1286443623047770112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Free Beacon reporter David Rutz tweeted: &#8220;I cannot wait for Trump&#8217;s tweet about Fauci&#8217;s first pitch. I&#8217;m legitimately excited about it.&#8221;
Political commentator John Cardillo tweeted: &#8220;Obama: &#8216;Damn, I throw like a five year old girl.&#8217; Fauci: &#8216;Hold my juice box.'&#8221;
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Obama: “Damn, I throw like a five year old girl.”
Fauci: “Hold my juice box.”
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&mdash; John Cardillo (@johncardillo) <a href="https://twitter.com/johncardillo/status/1286439937299161090?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Washington Examiner editor Seth Mandel tweeted: &#8220;Give Fauci a break. Who do you expect him to be on a baseball field, George Bush?&#8221;
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Give Fauci a break. Who do you expect him to be on a baseball field, George Bush? <a href="https://t.co/cHNa36oTSu">pic.twitter.com/cHNa36oTSu</a>
&mdash; Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) <a href="https://twitter.com/SethAMandel/status/1286441358862045186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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WATCH: Dr. Fauci Throws Disastrous First Pitch At MLB Game; Players Kneel For Black Lives Matter

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After President Donald Trump characterized him as an &#8220;alarmist,&#8221; Dr. Anthony Fauci said he fancies himself more as a realist.
Speaking with CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper on Tuesday, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases responded to Trump&#8217;s comments on Sunday characterizing him as &#8220;a little bit of an alarmist.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, I mean people have their opinion about my reaction to things. I consider myself more a realist than an alarmist,&#8221; Fauci said, as reported by <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/21/politics/fauci-trump-coronavirus-cnntv/index.html">CNN</a>. &#8220;But, you know, people do have their opinions other than that. I&#8217;ve always thought of myself as a realist when it comes to this.&#8221;
Speaking with Chris Wallace of &#8220;Fox News Sunday,&#8221; Trump said that he maintains a positive relationship with Fauci despite his past “mistakes.”
&#8220;Dr. Fauci&#8217;s made some mistakes, but I have a very good — I spoke to him yesterday at length — I have a very good relationship with Dr. Fauci,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/19/politics/trump-fauci-alarmist-coronavirus/index.html">Trump said</a>. &#8220;He&#8217;s a little bit of an alarmist — that&#8217;s okay.”
Trump&#8217;s comments about Fauci followed White House senior trade adviser Peter Navarro publicly bashing the doctor in <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/todaysdebate/2020/07/14/anthony-fauci-wrong-with-me-peter-navarro-editorials-debates/5439374002/">an op-ed for USA Today</a>, arguing that he has been &#8220;wrong about everything&#8221; he&#8217;s personally interacted with him about.
Though Trump said he has a &#8220;very good&#8221; relationship with Fauci, the disease expert was not invited to speak at the White House COVID-19 task force press conference on Tuesday.
&#8220;I was not invited,&#8221; Fauci told Tapper. &#8220;Up to this point, I&#8217;m assuming I&#8217;m not going to be there.&#8221;
When it comes to reopening schools in the fall, Fauci said he has neither spoken with Trump nor Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. He did, however, tell Tapper that America should do whatever it can to get children back to school.
&#8220;In general, when I think about that, I want to take a 40,000-foot look and say, as a fundamental principle, I do agree that we should try as best as we possibly can to get the children back to school,&#8221; Fauci said. &#8220;Because of the well-documented, you know, secondary downstream ripple effects that are negative on parents and on the children when you keep them out of school.&#8221;
Though Fauci and Trump may have a visibly rocky relationship, the doctor has not lost his good graces with the mainstream media, between his InStyle magazine spread and his invitation to throw the first pitch at the opening game for the Washington Nationals on Thursday. In a lengthy interview with InStyle, Fauci described his relationship with Trump as “complicated.”
“Because in some respects I have a very good relationship with him,” he said. “During the times that I was seeing him a fair amount, it was quite a collegial relationship. And in many respects, it probably still is, but I don’t see him very much anymore.”
“Sometimes you say things that are not widely accepted in the White House, and that’s just a fact of life,” Fauci added.
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Fauci Responds To Trump: ‘I’m More A Realist Than An Alarmist’

After his InStyle magazine spread, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, will be throwing the first pitch at the Washington Nationals opening game of the season this coming Thursday.
In an official statement, the defending World Series championship team said that they will proudly be welcoming &#8220;super-fan&#8221; Anthony Fauci to help kickstart the opening game.
&#8220;The Washington Nationals are thrilled to announce that Nats super-fan, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has accepted our invitation to throw out the ceremonial first pitch on Opening Day, Thursday, July 23,&#8221; the announcement said. &#8220;Dr. Fauci has been a true champion for our country during the COVID-19 pandemic and throughout his distinguished career, so it is only fitting that we honor him as we kick off the 2020 season and defend our World Series Championship title.&#8221;
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As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dr-fauci-lands-instyle-magazine-shoot-before-first-lady-melania-trump">reported</a> last week, Fauci&#8217;s opening pitch comes within a week of the magazine InStyle featuring &#8220;the good doctor&#8221; on the cover as if he were auditioning for &#8220;Sexiest Man Alive.&#8221; In a lengthy interview with the magazine, Fauci described his relationship with President Donald Trump as &#8220;complicated.&#8221;
“Because in some respects I have a very good relationship with him,” he said.  “During the times that I was seeing him a fair amount, it was quite a collegial relationship. And in many respects, it probably still is, but I don’t see him very much anymore.”
&#8220;Sometimes you say things that are not widely accepted in the White House, and that’s just a fact of life,&#8221; Fauci added.
Dr. Fauci received his InStyle profile before First Lady Melania Trump.
Even though the state of New York suffered the most casualties and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cuomo-administrations-investigation-blames-health-care-workers-for-nursing-home-covid-deaths-not-governors-order">failed to adequately protect nursing homes</a>, Dr. Anthony Fauci nonetheless told PBS News Hour that Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) combatted the COVID-19 pandemic &#8220;correctly.&#8221;
“We have a problem. We need to admit it and own it. But we have got to do the things that are very clear that we need to do to turn this around, remembering we can do it,” Fauci said on the program. “We know that, when you do it properly, you bring down those cases. We have done it. We have done it in New York. New York got hit worse than any place in the world. And they did it correctly by doing the things that you’re talking about.&#8221;
During a video conference with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Fauci also urged local government to be &#8220;as forceful as possible&#8221; when it comes to citizens wearing masks.
“I can say as a public health official I would urge the leaders, the local, political and other leaders in states and cities and towns to be as forceful as possible in getting your citizenry to wear masks,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/17/health/us-coronavirus-friday/index.html">he said</a>.
“Masks are important as part of the physical distancing. Physical distancing is the most important, but practically when you’re living your life and trying to open up the country,&#8221; he added. &#8220;You are going to come into contact with people. And for that reason, we know that masks are really important. And we should be using them. Everyone.&#8221;
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Dr. Fauci To Throw Ceremonial First Pitch At Washington Nationals Opening Game

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the leading voice on the White House Coronavirus Task Force and the nation&#8217;s top infectious disease expert, earned a spread in InStyle, the magazine teased Wednesday.
First lady Melania Trump, a former fashion model, has yet to be featured for InStyle since becoming first lady, in stark contrast to her predecessor former first lady Michelle Obama, and, apparently, even Dr. Fauci.
Wearing shades and sitting poolside, the famed &#8220;Good Doctor&#8221; drops the modesty and boasts about how &#8220;effective&#8221; he is during the lengthy interview, which he shared with his wife Dr. Christine Grady.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, “The Good Doctor,” lands InStyle magazine spread <a href="https://t.co/U6MThloOak">https://t.co/U6MThloOak</a> <a href="https://t.co/DKrdSLQ9ED">pic.twitter.com/DKrdSLQ9ED</a>
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Fauci not only landed a lengthy interview and a shoot but was the magazine&#8217;s special digital cover.
&#8220;A special digital cover: Dr. Anthony Fauci and his wife, bioethicist Dr. Christine Grady spoke to [Norah O&#8217;Donnell] about the battle against COVID-19, Fauci&#8217;s contentious relationship with the White House and how he&#8217;s staying sane (pro-tip: he power walks),&#8221; the magazine teased. 
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A special digital cover: Dr. Anthony Fauci and his wife, bioethicist Dr. Christine Grady spoke to <a href="https://twitter.com/NorahODonnell?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NorahODonnell</a> about the battle against COVID-19, Fauci&#39;s contentious relationship with the White House and how he&#39;s staying sane (pro-tip: he power walks). <a href="https://t.co/CSM3KjFk3X">https://t.co/CSM3KjFk3X</a> <a href="https://t.co/aNJno1CUkC">pic.twitter.com/aNJno1CUkC</a>
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During the interview, Fauci described his relationship with President Donald Trump as “complicated.”
“Because in some respects I have a very good relationship with him,” he said, according to <a href="https://www.today.com/popculture/dr-fauci-ditches-mask-magazine-photoshoot-t186965">Today</a>. “During the times that I was seeing him a fair amount, it was quite a collegial relationship. And in many respects, it probably still is, but I don’t see him very much anymore.”
“Sometimes you say things that are not widely accepted in the White House, and that’s just a fact of life,&#8221; Fauci added.
As noted by senior legal advisor for Team Trump Jenna Ellis, Mrs. Trump has yet to be a feature for the magazine, though <a href="https://www.instyle.com/celebrity/melania-trump">InStyle</a> has published literally dozens of pieces critical of Melania.
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Yet Melania is still waiting&#8230;. 🙄 <a href="https://t.co/hZUNtz9Xu4">https://t.co/hZUNtz9Xu4</a>
&mdash; Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) <a href="https://twitter.com/JennaEllisEsq/status/1283572217918435330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Last year, Vogue editor <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6916579/Shes-Melania-Trump-hits-Vogue-editor-Anna-Wintour.html">Anna Wintour</a> suggested she&#8217;d never feature Mrs. Trump on her cover, though former first lady Obama graced the cover three times.
&#8220;To be on the cover of Vogue doesn&#8217;t define Mrs. Trump, she&#8217;s been there, done that long before she was First Lady,&#8221; the White House sharply responded to the shade.
In the past, President Trump, seemingly irritated by the media&#8217;s treatment of his wife, <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2019/06/14/trump-likens-melania-jackie-o-but-twitter-objects/1454847001/">suggested</a> that Melania would be fawned over like former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, or &#8220;Jackie O.,&#8221; if she were a Democrat.
Melania&#8217;s treatment was raised in 2018 by award-winning actor and conservative politico James Woods. &#8220;If the Trumps were Democrats, Melania would be on every cover of every chic women&#8217;s magazine in the world every month,&#8221; he said via Twitter, captioning a stunning photo of Melania in a strapless blue dress.
As noted by <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/melania-trump-magazine-covers-model-878777">Newsweek</a>, Mrs. Obama graced a total of 12 magazine covers during her husband&#8217;s time in office. &#8220;In addition to appearing on the cover of famous fashion mag Vogue three times, she&#8217;s also advocated national interest issues in two Essence magazine features, twice for Time magazine and Glamour magazine, and once for Redbook, Instyle and Radar,&#8221; the outlet noted.
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A &#8220;senior White House aide&#8221; told Politico&#8217;s Jake Sherman Wednesday that Trump administration trade official Peter Navarro &#8220;went rogue&#8221; and bypassed clearly outlined policies when he published an op-ed in USA Today tearing into Dr. Anthony Fauci, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and trusted member of the president&#8217;s coronavirus response team.
Navarro &#8220;blistered&#8221; Fauci <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/todaysdebate/2020/07/14/anthony-fauci-wrong-with-me-peter-navarro-editorials-debates/5439374002/">in the Wednesday op-ed</a>, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trade-adviser-peter-navarro-tears-into-fauci-in-blistering-op-ed-wrong-about-everything">Fox News</a>, with the Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy noting that the long-time government health advisor has a &#8220;good bedside manner,&#8221; but that Fauci “has been wrong about everything I have interacted with him on.&#8221;
In the op-ed, Navarro claims that Fauci “fought against” President Donald Trump&#8217;s decision to shut off all flights from China, where the novel coronavirus originated, that Fauci frequently misstated the risks of coronavirus transmission, and that the head of Trump&#8217;s coronavirus response team sowed confusion by &#8220;flip-flopping&#8221; on the use of masks.
“When I warned in late January in a memo of a possibly deadly pandemic, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases was telling our news media not to worry,&#8221; Navarro wrote. “Fauci was telling the public the China virus was low risk.&#8221;
&#8220;So when you ask me whether I listen to Dr. Fauci’s advice my answer is: only with skepticism and caution,&#8221; Navarro said.
The op-ed shocked readers, seemingly providing proof of an internal rift between Fauci and the President&#8217;s core team – a rift that many in the mainstream media have been seeking to verify for months, as the White House&#8217;s coronavirus response wore on.
The White House, though, seems to be denying that Navarro speaks for any member of senior staff but himself. In an appearance on MSNBC Wednesday morning, <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/white-house-aide-tells-jake-sherman-that-peter-navarro-went-rogue-in-anti-fauci-op-ed/">Sherman told the anchors</a> that he&#8217;d received a text from a White House aide claiming that &#8220;Peter Navarro went rogue and he bypassed the Op-Ed approval process in writing in the nation’s largest paper, USA Today, that he doesn’t trust Anthony Fauci.”
“I’m not actually sure if that’s better or worse, frankly, and it kind of leaves me speechless that a senior aide to the president would publish an Op-Ed on his own, but that’s what their line is, is that they didn’t approve this Op-Ed, and they did it without permission,&#8221; Sherman added.
ABC News senior White House reporter Katherine Faulders said on social media that she&#8217;d been told the same thing, also by an unnamed senior White House aide.
&#8220;Navarro went rogue and put out his personal opinion without any approvals. The White House does not stand by these unauthorized opinions and Mr. Navarro owes Dr. Fauci an apology,&#8221; Faudlers wrote, quoting the source.
President Donald Trump, speaking at a Rose Garden press conference Wednesday morning, also said that Navarro was giving his own opinion.
&#8220;That&#8217;s Peter Navarro,&#8221; Trump said, <a href="https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/1283429535996882946">per AP reporter Zeke Miller</a>, &#8220;but I have a very good relationship with Dr. Fauci.&#8221;
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Stocks soared Wednesday following news that a new COVID-19 vaccine showed that it produced antibodies in all patients during a trial.
Even before the opening gavel fell, stock futures rose more than 500 points. When the market opened at 9:30 a.m., the Dow settled in, rising in the mid-300s.
The stock surge followed news from Moderna, a pharmaceutical company that announced Tuesday night that its coronavirus vaccine produced a “robust” immune response — meaning antibodies — in all 45 patients in its early stage human trial, according to data published in the peer-reviewed New England Journal of Medicine.
“No matter how you slice this, this is good news,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told The <a href="https://www.foxla.com/news/first-covid-19-vaccine-tested-in-us-produced-antibodies-in-all-patients-during-trial">Associated Press</a>.
“The hallmark of a vaccine is one that can actually mimic natural infection and induce the kind of response that you would get with natural infection. And it looks like, at least in this limited, small number of individuals, that is exactly what’s happening,” Fauci said. “The data really look quite good. There were no serious adverse events.”
The Moderna vaccine test began back in March, with 45 volunteers being injected twice, a month apart. Every one of the test subjects developed &#8220;neutralizing&#8221; antibodies in their bloodstream at levels about the same as people who had contracted COVID-19 and recovered, the Journal reported.
“This is an essential building block that is needed to move forward with the trials that could actually determine whether the vaccine does protect against infection,” said Dr. Lisa Jackson of the Kaiser Permanente Washington Research Institute in Seattle, who led the study.
There were no serious side effects, the researchers said, but about half of the volunteers did report flu-like reactions, including headache, fatigue, chills, fever, and pain at the injection site. For those who suffered fever, it lasted just a day.
Other COVID-19 vaccines are moving swiftly as well.
Pfizer has teamed with Germany-based BioNTech, a smaller company with experience in working with RNA vaccines, and conducted initial trials. Those who received a small first dose had nearly double the number of antibodies as those who had recovered from the virus, while those who received a larger dose had triple the number of antibodies. After a second dose, the small-dose test group had eight times the antibodies, while the large-dose group had 50 times the antibodies.
Pfizer has said they hope to have approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration by October.
Oxford is much further ahead, now conducting Phase III trials in Brazil, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. The U.S. is set to be added in August with patients in 33 spots around the nation.
Oxford is even more optimistic than Pfizer, saying they could have results from the trials by the end of August and be ready to move forward with a vaccine in September. Its partner, AstraZeneca, is already producing the vaccine and the company <a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/2-billion-doses-of-oxford-s-potential-coronavirus-vaccine-could-soon-become-available" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">recently said</a> it plans to create 2 billion doses, some 400 million by the end of 2020.
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Admiral Brett P. Giroir, M.D., Assistant Secretary for Health, told NBC News on Sunday that Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is not always &#8220;100% right&#8221; and does not, by his own admission, have &#8220;the whole national interest in mind,&#8221; instead maintaining a &#8220;very narrow public health point of view.&#8221;
NBC News host Chuck Todd asked Giroir if there were ever situations where the Coronavirus Task Force wanted to implement something but did not bring up the idea to the administration because they feared President Donald Trump would say no.
&#8220;I want to just put this to rest,&#8221; Giroir said. &#8220;There is complete open, honest discussion within the task force. Task force meets three to four times a week. The vice president calls me regularly. Dr. Birx is not one to hold her tongue. Believe me, if there&#8217;s a public health opinion that needs to be said, that needs to be it.&#8221;
&#8220;And I respect Dr. Fauci a lot, but Dr. Fauci is not 100% right and he also doesn&#8217;t necessarily, and he admits that, have the whole national interest in mind,&#8221; Giroir continued. &#8220;He looks at it from a very narrow public health point of view.&#8221;
&#8220;But let me just say there is absolutely open discourse,&#8221; Giroir concluded. &#8220;I feel absolutely free saying anything to the vice president within those rooms. The vice president, I know, briefs the president on a daily basis. So nobody feels like anything is held back. We all take this as a serious crisis. It&#8217;s got to be science driving the policy. And that&#8217;s the way it is.&#8221;
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TODAY on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MTP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MTP</a>: Admiral Brett Giroir says “Dr. Fauci is not 100 percent right.” <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MTP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MTP</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IfItSunday?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IfItSunday</a><a href="https://twitter.com/HHS_ASH?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HHS_ASH</a>: “He looks at it from a very narrow public health point of view.” <a href="https://t.co/EE07SYXEAd">pic.twitter.com/EE07SYXEAd</a>
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<blockquote>TODD: And the final question I have for you is whether, whether &#8212; on this task force whether public health guidance is being sort of massaged a little bit. This was from the Washington Post about Anthony Fauci. It says, &#8220;Dr. Fauci has argued that parts of the country experiencing surges should shut down. &#8216;But there is no buy-in for that,&#8217; said an official with direct knowledge of the conversation who spoke on a condition of anonymity.&#8221; Are there some ideas that you can&#8217;t propose because the president will never accept them?
GIROIR: I want to just put this to rest. There is complete open, honest discussion within the task force. Task force meets three to four times a week. The vice president calls me regularly. Dr. Birx is not one to hold her tongue. Believe me, if there&#8217;s a public health opinion that needs to be said, that needs to be it. And I respect Dr. Fauci a lot, but Dr. Fauci is not 100% right and he also doesn&#8217;t necessarily, and he admits that, have the whole national interest in mind. He looks at it from a very narrow public health point of view. But let me just say there is absolutely open discourse. I feel absolutely free saying anything to the vice president within those rooms. The vice president, I know, briefs the president on a daily basis. So nobody feels like anything is held back. We all take this as a serious crisis. It&#8217;s got to be science driving the policy. And that&#8217;s the way it is.
TODD: Admiral Giroir, I&#8217;m going to have to leave it there. I appreciate you coming on and sharing the administration&#8217;s perspective, sir. Thank you.
GIROIR: Thank you.</blockquote>
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Assistant Sec. For Health: Dr. Fauci Not Always ‘100% Right,’ Advises From ‘Very Narrow’ Public Health POV

The risk of death to patients with the coronavirus drastically increases with age, according to a new study.
The study puts hard numbers to trends that have played out globally as governments and individuals attempt to protect the most vulnerable populations. The study found that the elderly, those with certain comorbidities, men, and people of black and South Asian ethnicities are at higher risk from the virus.
The science journal <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2521-4">Nature</a> published the <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2521-4_reference.pdf">study</a> on Wednesday, in which the authors analyzed troves of data from primary care records covering roughly 40% of Britain’s population. The researchers compiled a data base of 17,278,392 primary care records, including 10,926 patients that suffered COVID-19-related deaths.
“A lot of previous work has focused on patients that present at hospital,” Oxford researcher Dr. Ben Goldacre, one of the study’s authors, told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/health/coronavirus-risk-factors.html">The New York Times</a>. “That’s useful and important, but we wanted to get a clear sense of the risks as an everyday person. Our starting pool is literally everybody.”
The study revealed a “jaw-dropping” connection between one’s chances of dying from the disease and their age, Goldacre said. People over age 80 are at least 20 times more likely to die from the disease than someone aged 50-59. The risk of dying from the coronavirus for adults under the age of 40 is close to zero.
“The overall cumulative incidence of death 90 days after study start was &lt;0.01% in those aged 18-39 years, rising to 0.67% and 0.44% in men and women respectively aged ≥80 years,” the study states. “Increasing age was strongly associated with risk, with those ≥80 years having more than 20-fold increased risk than 50-59 year olds.”
The study also highlighted that non-white ethnicities were more vulnerable than white ethnicities. Comorbidities such as obesity, asthma, and heart disease and others also contribute to increased risk. Also, men are about 60% more likely than women to die from the disease.
“This highlights a lot of what we already know about Covid-19,” University of Illinois at Chicago health professor Uchechi Mitchell, who was not an author of the study, told NYT. “But a lot of science is about repetition. The size of the study alone is a strength, and there is a need to continue documenting disparities.”
Many governors in the United States have paused or reversed their reopening plans as coronavirus case numbers begin to climb, especially in states in the southern and western parts of the U.S. Fatalities from the disease have continued to decline, however. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that the average number of deaths from COVID-19 has declined for 10 consecutive weeks.
Health experts such as Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, have <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/dr-fauci-false-narrative-covid-death-rate">warned</a> that death numbers should begin to spike in the coming days and weeks as the fatality rate catches up with the infection rate.
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and others maintain that the increasing case numbers are almost entirely due to young people <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ron-desantis-florida-not-going-into-lockdown-again">contracting</a> the disease, however. As long as vulnerable populations remain uninfected, states should aim to lessen restrictions, not reapply them.
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Massive demonstrations in recent weeks have likely spread the coronavirus among attendees to the demonstrations, experts say.
Ten epidemiologists interviewed by <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/us/Epidemiologists-coronavirus-protests-quarantine.html">The New York Times</a> backed up an assertion already made by health officials in Houston and Los Angeles: Black Lives Matter protests almost certainly spread the coronavirus among participants. The key question that experts are trying to answer is how much have the protests contributed to the current rise in case numbers.
“In all likelihood, some infections occurred at the protests; the question is how much,” said Mark Lurie, a professor of epidemiology at Brown University. “No major new evidence has emerged that suggests the protests were superspreader events.”
The epidemiologists’ claim contradicts numerous media outlets that have reported a misleading claim suggesting that the coronavirus did not spread through the protests. The Associated Press, a major news wire service, reported on a National Bureau of Economic Research <a href="https://www.nber.org/papers/w27408.pdf">paper</a> in a July 1 <a href="https://apnews.com/5a283df1b23ecc5c4b19803d320d0ebc">article</a> headlined, “Little evidence that protests spread coronavirus in US.”
The AP reported:
<blockquote>There is little evidence that the protests that erupted after George Floyd’s death caused a significant increase in U.S. coronavirus infections, according to public health experts.
If the protests had driven an explosion in cases, experts say, the jumps would have started to become apparent within two weeks — and perhaps as early as five days. But that didn’t happen in many cities with the largest protests, including New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Washington, D.C.</blockquote>
The article obscures the researchers’ interpretation of the data, giving the impression that the coronavirus did not spread during outside protests. The researchers directly contradict that implication in the paper: “In sum, we hypothesize that protests are activities that would increase disease transmission, albeit perhaps in a dampened fashion if countermeasures such as masks are used pervasively.”
The protests, the researchers say, did not contribute to a net increase in coronavirus cases in the short term – for about a week after the protests took place – because people who did not attend the protests were more likely to stay isolated in their homes in the aftermath.
Government contact tracers have tracked few coronavirus cases back to Black Lives Matter protests, but that may have more to do with poor contact tracing operations than a lack of spread among protests. In New York City, which suffered huge losses from the coronavirus, contact tracers are <a href="https://dw-site-dev.dailywire.com/news/nyc-blocks-coronavirus-contact-tracers-from-asking-about-protests">banned</a> from asking coronavirus positive individuals if they attended a protest. Unless the information is volunteered, the government will never know.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has also highlighted the difficulty in accurately tracking community spread and the poor operations to do so set up by state and local officials.
“[Communities should] get boots on the ground and to go out there and look for the people, instead of getting on a phone and doing so-called contact tracing by phone,” Fauci <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fauci-coronavirus-vaccine-unlikely-to-achieve-herd-immunity-because-of-anti-vaxxers">told</a> an audience via livestream at the Aspen Ideas Festival last month.
“When you have community spread, it’s insidious because there are so many people in the community who are infected but asymptomatic. So the standard classic paradigm of identification, isolation, contact tracing doesn’t work no matter how good you are because you don’t know who you’re tracing,” Fauci said.
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Epidemiologists: Protests Likely Spread Coronavirus, ‘The Question Is How Much’

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said United States health officials will be monitoring a new Swine Flu appearing in Chinese pig farms after a <a href="https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/06/23/1921186117?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=f91f1b7d9123b0e959ec0b5496b3a612c5f8821c-1593534493-0-AbXJTfBRuRRwcjeGNlyASt4u7v6WAWv_zVXdYJnxlGKrs90CW6NeaN4QhxLPGlvnf3mmatxyaFBM5zDx9a3LgGSDBCLqJ7uEsrVoIn30OTlJQm1pQR18udrH-an2RkGbJtL55mf9aFcWln6fBT7fVtON5LWc7KOYz22ccEupIYSO9aJe6dgNtJ_lwyy9PnjqQ8D3WZM2mAwp5tPwhTR_XZYUTpU85KAO046yJ6UR9AGN-fZ4BRrLNFpXT8G-cuTWdwkPx2XsHm-EpavDLJFBy1BWBGF8WDZuOmTvxMW2DSFFOJm-FRrgVjuY30yd_50FaQ">new study</a> suggested that the swine flu virus “raises concerns for the possible generation of pandemic viruses.”
While Dr. Fauci said that the public shouldn’t worry about the virus actively infecting humans at the moment — and is “not a so-called immediate threat” — he explained that the virus is “exhibiting what we call reassortment capabilities.”
“In other words, when you get a brand new virus that turns out to be a pandemic virus, it’s either due to mutations and/or the reassortment or exchanges of genes,” Dr. Fauci said during a Senate hearing Tuesday. “They’re seeing virus in swine, in pigs now, that have characteristics of the 2009 H1N1, of the original 1918, which many of our flu viruses have remnants of that in it, as well as segments from other hosts, like swine.”
“When they all mix up together, and they contain some of the elements that might make them susceptible to being transmitted to humans, you’ll always have the possibility that you might have another swine flu-type outbreak as we had in 2009,” said Dr. Fauci. 
The study, which was conducted using data collected from pigs in China between 2011 and 2018, found that the virus “has been predominant in swine populations since 2016.” Furthermore, serological surveillance data showed that out of 338 pig farm workers, 10.4% were positive for the virus. 
According to <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/30/new-strain-of-flu-in-china-has-pandemic-potential-scientists-warns.html">CNBC News</a>, scientists have observed that it has “all the essential hallmarks of a candidate pandemic virus” but have emphasized that the virus is not an immediate threat.
Dr. Angela Rasmussen, a virologist from Columbia University who was not involved in the study, noted on Twitter that there seems to be “no report that any of the seropositive people with antibodies actually were seriously ill.” As such, she suggests the virus may not be “adapted as a human pathogen” or not be “very pathogenic.”
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So&#8230;okay, it probably infects people but there&#8217;s no report that any of the seropositive people with antibodies actually were seriously ill. That suggests that while people can be infected, the virus is either 1. not adapted as a human pathogen or 2. it&#8217;s not very pathogenic.
— Dr. Angela Rasmussen (@angie_rasmussen) <a href="https://twitter.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1277738990376869888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 29, 2020</a></blockquote>
Li-Min Haung, director of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at National Taiwan University Hospital, told <a href="http://nytimes.com/2020/06/30/world/asia/h1n1-swine-flu-virus-china-pig.html">The New York Times</a> that scientists now need to determine whether workers were the source of spread to others. 
“It’s a very important study, and the virus looks quite dangerous,” said Dr. Huang. “We need to be worried about any disease with the potential to spread human to human.”
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