One week after his viral rant against the economic damage unleashed by the COVID-19 lockdown procedures, Barstool Sports founder David Portnoy returned on Friday with yet another profanity-laced rant knocking Dr. Anthony Fauci for seeming to shift his positions.
“You see these quotes from my guy Fauci? He just said… he says if we stay locked in too long it can cause irreparable damage,” Portnoy said, as reported by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/barstools-dave-portnoy-blasts-dr-fauci-coronavirus-rant">Fox News</a>. “He thinks we should start opening the country. What the f&#8211;k are we talking about? This is my whole point.”
Portnoy was referring to Fauci&#8217;s statement on Friday where he told CNBC that prolonged lockdowns could cause &#8220;irreparable damage&#8221; to the whole country while advising policies that protect the most vulnerable.
&#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; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fauci-staying-closed-too-long-will-cause-irreparable-damage">the doctor said</a>. &#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;
Last week, Fauci told the U.S. Senate that reopening too soon would cause &#8220;needless suffering and death.&#8221; In his Friday rant, Portnoy had a difficult time squaring Fauci&#8217;s comments from last week, in which he said that reopening too soon would cause &#8220;needless suffering and death,&#8221; and this week&#8217;s markedly more optimistic tone.
“Fauci, I just did a rant that went viral, literally like last week, because you’re like, ‘If we open up the country everyone is gonna f***ing die,’ I’m paraphrasing but that’s like that he said,” Portnoy said. “Now&#8230; the wind blows, and he’s like ‘OK, no no we can’t stay in forever.’ What is it Fauci? Pick a f***ingg side. Or at least say you don’t know what the f**k you’re talking about.”
Portnoy said that since nobody seems to know what they are doing, it makes no sense to keep making policies based on that.
“Wear a mask. Don’t wear a mask. Stay inside. Don’t stay inside,” Portnoy emphatically stated. “If nobody knows anything, then what the f**k are we doing?”
&#8220;Nobody knows what the f&#8211;k’s going on,” he continued. &#8220;[Fauci] seems like a nice guy, I’m beginning to think he’s senile. You just said, in front of the Senate, if we open up too fast we’re gonna die. Now you said, if we don’t open up fast enough, people are gonna die. Pick a f***ing side, Fauci!”
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On Friday, Dr. Anthony Fauci said that prolonged lockdowns could cause &#8220;irreparable damage.&#8221;
Speaking with Meg Tirrell of CNBC on Friday, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said that he does not want people to get the impression he wants an indefinite lockdown until a cure arises.
Asked about the suggestion that the country open up and protect the most vulnerable, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/22/dr-anthony-fauci-says-staying-closed-for-too-long-could-cause-irreparable-damage.html?__source=twitter%7Cmain">Fauci said:</a>
<blockquote>Well, A, I have no disagreement we must protect the most vulnerable, and B, yes, depending upon the dynamics of the infection in the particular state, city, region, county, that you&#8217;re in, we certainly want to, in a cautious way, reopening.
We can&#8217;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. And it&#8217;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.</blockquote>
Though Fauci said that the United States had to institute strict measures initially to prevent an explosion of deaths, he conceded that certain parts of the country will have to start reopening.
“Now is the time, depending upon where you are and what your situation is, to begin to seriously look at reopening the economy, reopening the country to try to get back to some degree of normal,&#8221; he said.
Fauci cautioned states against lifting COVID-19 restrictions too early while advising governors to take “very significant precautions.”
“In general, I think most of the country is doing it in a prudent way,” he said. “There are obviously some situations where people might be jumping over that. I just say please proceed with caution if you’re going to do that.”
In an earlier interview with NPR on Friday, Fauci <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/22/dr-fauci-is-still-confident-us-could-have-a-coronavirus-vaccine-by-december.html">said it was “conceivable”</a> that the United States could have a COVID-19 vaccine in November in light of the president&#8217;s &#8220;Operation Warp Speed&#8221; plan.
“We still have a long way to go obviously,” Fauci said Friday. “There are so many things that need to be done. We’re going to go quickly into a phase three trial probably in the beginning of the summer, sometime in July.”
Fauci warned the U.S. Senate last week of &#8220;needless suffering and death&#8221; if America opened too soon while suggesting schools remain closed through the fall.
“The major message that I wish to convey to the Senate HLP committee tomorrow is the danger of trying to open the country prematurely,” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/us/politics/coronavirus-fauci-senate-testimony.html">he said</a>. “If we skip over the checkpoints in the guidelines to ‘Open America Again,’ then we risk the danger of multiple outbreaks throughout the country. This will not only result in needless suffering and death, but would actually set us back on our quest to return to normal.”
Fauci&#8217;s comments <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rand-paul-faucis-policies-emasculated-the-medical-care-system-and-ruined-the-economy">culminated in a tense exchange </a>with Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who told Fauci that he should not be the &#8220;end-all&#8221; voice on the decision to reopen America.
&#8220;As much as I respect you, Dr. Fauci, I don’t think you’re the end-all. I don’t think you’re the one person that gets to make the decision,&#8221; Paul told Fauci. &#8220;We can listen to your advice, but there are people on the other sides saying that there’s not going to be a surge, and we can safely open the economy and the facts will bear this out.&#8221;
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After warning us for months to disinfect every surface we touch, the CDC has now quietly changed its stance, admitting that “the virus does not spread easily” through contaminated surfaces but instead travels person to person. In other words, the masks, the gloves, and even the lockdowns are mostly useless. The alarmists who pushed disastrous policies through bunk science made a deal with the devil — a “Faucian bargain,” if you will — to trade their credibility for the promise of limitless power on the premise of limitless knowledge. As with all such deals, the bargain has left the power-grabbers with nothing.
Florida governor Ron DeSantis took a victory lap in a press briefing with Vice President Mike Pence, excoriating public health officials and pundits whose doomsday predictions turned out false. Meanwhile, the fear-mongers, bereft of any convincing argument, have resorted to name-calling and demands for censorship. MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski called President Trump “a cruel, sick, disgusting person” and asked Twitter to ban his account. Nancy Pelosi likened the President to a child with “doggy doo” on his shoes. So much for “when they go low, we go high.” So much for “science and data.”
Perhaps the Left intends its temper tantrum to distract from recently leaked audio of a phone call in which presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden discussed his dodgy deal with then-Ukraine president Petro Poroshenko. In the call both Biden and Poroshenko acknowledge trading a billion dollar U.S. loan guarantee for Poroshenko’s promise to fire the prosecutor general investigating corruption involving Biden’s son Hunter, who inexplicably received a $900,000 payout from a Ukrainian energy company. But Democrats won’t be able to keep Biden’s deal out of the news for long: the Senate voted Wednesday to subpoena key associates of Hunter Biden as it investigates what Joe Biden knew, and when he knew it.
If Joe goes down, his running mate will matter all the more, and several prominent politicians are vying for the spot. Candidates include embattled Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer, who boasted on NBC News that she has spoken with the Biden team, and Minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar, who has been formally asked to undergo vetting, according to a source with knowledge of the discussion. But the media’s favorite candidate in the running is failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, whom the Washington Post implausibly likened to a “runway model” in a recent, prolix puff piece. The Left has spent more than a year pretending Abrams is the rightful governor of Georgia, so they might well daydream her onto the catwalk and then the Naval Observatory—if only they had any credibility left to lose.
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) continued his ongoing spar with Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, in a <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/05/21/rand-paul-andy-biggs-anthony-fauci-reopening-coronavirus-column/5225769002/">USA Today op-ed</a> he co-wrote with Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), blasting Fauci’s alleged doom and gloom policies for destroying the American economy and countless lives.
Though Paul and Biggs respect Dr. Fauci&#8217;s expertise on infectious diseases and his medial opinions, the pair were severely critical of Fauci for crafting his entire COVID-19 strategy off of flimsy models that turned out to be false, such as the U.K. Imperial College <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/married-woman-not-sorry-for-love-affair-with-professor-lockdown">model from disgraced professor Neil Ferguson</a> that warned of 2.2 million deaths in the United States with no mitigation.
&#8220;Fauci and company have relied on models that were <a class="gnt_ar_b_a" href="https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/5/2/21241261/coronavirus-modeling-us-deaths-ihme-pandemic" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-t-l="|inline|intext|n/a">later found to be deficient,</a>&#8221; the op-ed states. &#8220;He even has suggested that he <a class="gnt_ar_b_a" href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/03/29/fauci_dont_worry_about_best-case_worst-case_predictions_about_coronavirus.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-t-l="|inline|intext|n/a">can’t rely</a> on any of the models, especially if the underlying assumptions are wrong. Yet, Fauci persists in advocating policies that have emasculated the medical care system and ruined the economy.&#8221;
Despite these glaring errors, Fauci has not changed his tune and instead has gone full pedal-to-the-metal in his dire predictions. Just last week, when testifying before the senate, Fauci warned of &#8220;<a class="gnt_ar_b_a" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/us/politics/coronavirus-fauci-senate-testimony.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-t-l="|inline|intext|n/a">needless suffering and death&#8221;</a> if the United States reopened too quickly, and even suggested schools remain closed through the fall, which prompted Paul to call him out at the time.
“I think that … we’re going to have a national one-size-fits-all approach — nobody’s going to go to school, is kind of ridiculous,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-rand-paul-spars-with-fauci-ridiculous-to-cancel-school-in-the-fall-i-dont-think-youre-the-end-all">Paul told Fauci</a>. “We really ought to be doing it school district by school district, and the power needs to be dispersed because people make wrong predictions.”
“We ought to have a little bit of humility in our belief that we know what’s best for the economy,” Paul continued. “And, as much as I respect you, Dr. Fauci, I don’t think you’re the end-all. I don’t think you’re the one person that gets to make the decision. We can listen to your advice, but there are people on the other sides saying that there’s not going to be a surge, and we can safely open the economy and the facts will bear this out.”
In the op-ed for USA Today, Paul and Biggs take particular issue with Fauci&#8217;s almost callous coldness in the face of the economic and social destruction caused by the lockdown, something they say he merely <a class="gnt_ar_b_a" href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/490490-white-house-models-show-100000-240000-deaths-due-to-coronavirus-even" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-t-l="|inline|intext|n/a">dismissed</a> as &#8220;inconvenient&#8221; with no regard for the pain that people were experiencing.
&#8220;How come he is so understated when it comes to compassion for the people whose lives have been wrecked by his policies but so demonstrative when trying to scare the American people?&#8221; the op-ed wonders aloud. &#8220;Unbelievably, Fauci has suggested that the <a class="gnt_ar_b_a" href="https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/dr-anthony-fauci-cdc-director-senate-testimony-transcript-may-12" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-t-l="|inline|intext|n/a">economic</a> and <a class="gnt_ar_b_a" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-limits-of-anthony-faucis-expertise-11589392347" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-t-l="|inline|intext|n/a">societal impacts</a> of policies for which he has advocated were not considered when he offered his advice.&#8221;
Aside from the economic destruction (which is bad enough), Paul and Biggs cite the many public health issues that have arisen from the lockdowns, which goes beyond just suicides and alcoholism and into &#8220;<a class="gnt_ar_b_a" href="https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/15-hospitals-have-closed-this-year-here-s-why-51521.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-t-l="|inline|intext|n/a">hospitals</a> and <a class="gnt_ar_b_a" href="https://revcycleintelligence.com/news/20-of-primary-care-practices-anticipate-closing-in-a-month" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-t-l="|inline|intext|n/a">medical groups</a> having to close because they couldn’t treat patients.&#8221;
&#8220;As a medical bureaucrat in far-away Washington, perhaps he cannot empathize with the millions of Americans who have already <a class="gnt_ar_b_a" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/05/12/small-business-used-define-americas-economy-pandemic-could-end-that-forever/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-t-l="|inline|intext|n/a">closed down</a> their businesses or are <a class="gnt_ar_b_a" href="https://smallbiztrends.com/2020/04/impact-of-covid-19-on-small-businesses.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-t-l="|inline|intext|n/a">poised </a>to lose them and their life savings, and who have seen their <a class="gnt_ar_b_a" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-26/coronavirus-shock-is-destroying-americans-retirement-dreams" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-t-l="|inline|intext|n/a">retirement funds</a> depleted as the economy soured,&#8221; the op-ed asserts. &#8220;Maybe he is simply oblivious to the <a class="gnt_ar_b_a" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1646287/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-t-l="|inline|intext|n/a">health problems</a> that inure when a person is one of <a class="gnt_ar_b_a" href="https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/05/07/business/bc-us-virus-outbreak-unemployment-benefits.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-t-l="|inline|intext|n/a">more than 33 million Americans </a>who have lost their job.&#8221;
The op-ed concludes with a call for Fauci and Dr. Birx to stop pressuring states into remaining closed while trusting Americans to make prudent decisions with their freedom.
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Rand Paul: Fauci’s Policies ‘Emasculated The Medical Care System And Ruined The Economy’

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Canava, an L.A.-based clothing retailer decided to honor famous people who have “impressed” them during the coronavirus crisis, including Governors Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) and Gavin Newsom (D-CA), along with the government’s leading immunologist, Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Canava emblazoned Cuomo, Newsom and Fauci’s names on limited editions of their women&#8217;s underwear. In its product description for Fauci bikini briefs, Canava wrote, “We are living in unlikely times, and we heard you loud and clear that you wanted to show their ‘appreciation’ with more than a thank you,” in its product description for Fauci bikini briefs.
For its <a href="https://www.canava.co/products/rincon-echo-cuomo">NYC special edition</a>, Canava wrote, “For all those ‘thirsty’ for Andrew Cuomo we’ve got the perfect way for you to show your appreciation. Put his name on your undies! Governor Andrew Cuomo has proven to be a bright spot in an otherwise insane time and we want to celebrate him while also giving back so we’re matching dollar for dollar any <a href="https://www.canava.co/limitededitions">NYC Limited Edition</a> product purchased with an equal product donation to healthcare workers in the NYC area, we want them to be able to rest, recharge and relax when they get home.”
For its <a href="https://www.canava.co/products/rincon-coldwater-newsom">California limited edition</a>, Canava wrote, &#8220;Consider yourselves heard. There are lots of you loving on Governor Gavin Newsom (we understand you), so we rushed to make sure there’s a way to show your love. With these limited edition undies, you can represent while also giving back because we’re matching dollar for dollar any California Limited Edition product purchased.&#8221;
<a href="https://nypost.com/2020/05/19/la-brand-putting-fauci-cuomo-and-newsoms-names-on-underwear/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_medium=SocialFlow">The New York Post</a> noted, “LA Mag notes that Canava introduced its Fauci and Newsom items after debuting the Cuomo briefs to much success in April. The brand had also confirmed this on Instagram, saying the new items were released in response to an ‘outcry for MORE, MORE, MORE.’”
<a href="https://www.tmz.com/2020/05/19/cuomo-fauci-newsom-underwear-undies-line-canava-garcetti-coronavirus-hot-commodity-trend/">TMZ</a> reported on Tuesday, “Canava debuted the Fauci and Newsom underwear Friday, and we&#8217;re told consumers rushed to buy a quarter of the inventory. Worth noting &#8212; Fauci is in slightly higher demand than Gavin. Yeah, doctors still have the upper hand. But, we&#8217;re told Gov. Cuomo still reigns supreme in this department &#8230; Canava says his undies are still the most popular, even though the launch for Fauci and Newsom followed a similar trend as Andrew&#8217;s … Canava tells us they&#8217;re even fielding requests for underwear bearing L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti&#8217;s name.&#8221;
Underwear seems to bring out some strange ideas in the current environment; a woman in Scotland might have found a way to publicize names with underwear, too.  As<a href="https://www.iheartradio.ca/89x/blogs/watch-a-woman-makes-a-coronavirus-mask-out-of-underwear-1.11210960"> iHeart Radio explains</a>, &#8220;She puts her head through a leg opening, and then pulls the other leg opening over the top of her head so only her eyes are showing. The finished product looks like a ninja mask &#8230; with a Calvin Klein waistband at her neck.&#8221;
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Clothing Retailer Loves Fauci, Andrew Cuomo, Newsom. Puts Their Names On Women’s Underwear.

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On Thursday, Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy slammed Forbes for an apparent &#8220;incoming hit piece&#8221; on the 43-year-old, a day after a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-barstool-sports-founders-profanity-laced-monologue-against-lockdown-measures-when-did-flattening-the-curve-turn-into-finding-the-cure">video</a> of Portnoy criticizing excessive and indefinite lockdown measures went viral.
&#8220;We&#8217;re writing up a story on your video and wanted to reach out for comment before we publish,&#8221; an apparent email from Forbes reporter Jack Brewster said. &#8220;In the story we point out that [Dr. Anthony] Fauci&#8217;s comments were slightly more nuanced than your characterization and wanted to make sure to give you a chance to clarify.&#8221;
&#8220;Was that a question or just clarifying an upcoming hit piece is coming?&#8221; Portnoy responded to the email.
On Thursday, the businessman posted a screenshot of the exchange to Twitter, adding the caption, &#8220;I got to be honest. This doesn’t seem like fair reporting [Forbes].&#8221;
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During the monologue, Portnoy questioned Fauci warning against a reopening, claiming it would cause death and destruction.
“What the f*** is going on?” he started the video. “When did this become, ‘flatten the curve’, ‘flatten the curve’, ‘flatten the curve’, to we have to find a cure or everyone is gonna die?”
“Like, [Dr. Anthony] Fauci, seems like a nice enough dude, I was always like, this guy has no agenda …  [He] gets in front of the Senate, he’s like, we’re reopening the country too fast everyone’s dead,&#8221; Portnoy said. &#8220;Where’d that come from?&#8221;
Dr. Fauci, a key member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, recently warned opening &#8220;too early&#8221; — though it&#8217;s been weeks since the White House&#8217;s &#8220;15 Days to Stop the Spread&#8221; has lapsed — would lead to &#8220;needless suffering and death.&#8221;
&#8220;If we skip over the checkpoints in the guidelines to: ‘Open America Again,’ then we risk the danger of multiple outbreaks throughout the country,&#8221; he <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/12/dr-anthony-fauci-warns-senators-of-suffering-and-death-if-states-reopen-too-early.html">said</a> in an email to The New York Times. &#8220;This will not only result in needless suffering and death, but would actually set us back on our quest to return to normal.&#8221;
“What I’ve expressed then and again is my concern that if some areas, cities, states, what have you, jump over those various checkpoints and prematurely open up without having the capability of being able to respond effectively and efficiently, my concern is that we will start to see little spikes that might turn into outbreaks,” Fauci similarly told the Senate.
Portnoy&#8217;s speech noted that indefinite shutdown orders would <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/05/12/small-business-used-define-americas-economy-pandemic-could-end-that-forever/">destroy businesses</a>, which it has already.  Over 36 million Americans have filed unemployment claims since widespread shutdown orders were implemented in mid-March.
“And what about people who own businesses,” he said. “You can’t say closed indefinitely. Imagine working for a year, five years, ten years, two decades, grinding your fingers to the bone to build your businesses — Barstool, thank God, will be alright — I’m talking about other businesses. People who have jobs and have worked their whole f***ing lives to put food on the table and create a happy living. They’re just gonna go out of business? They’re just gonna wake up whenever this thing ends, when the mayors say them they can go back to work? Work to what? Your company is gonna be out of business, the economy is gonna be in the s***er, there’s gonna be no jobs, how the f*** are you gonna pay for your family, put food on the table, all that s***? What are you doing? You gotta give these people a choice.”
“If you told me, because of corona, I lost Barstool, I had to get a nine-to-five and start f***ing over, I’d rather die of corona,  seriously, or at least take my chances,” continued Portnoy. “I’m not saying everyone would do that. I would. But if I’ve dedicated 20 years of my life, I don’t wanna start over. I’ll f***ing deal with corona. You can’t just make everybody stay inside and basically start over. It’s insane. Like, what the f*** do they think is gonna happen?”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-barstool-sports-founders-profanity-laced-monologue-against-lockdown-measures-when-did-flattening-the-curve-turn-into-finding-the-cure">WATCH: Barstool Sports Founder’s Profanity-Laced Monologue Against Lockdown Measures: ‘When Did Flattening The Curve Turn Into Finding The Cure’</a>
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Barstool Sports Founder Hits Media After Viral Anti-Lockdown Monologue

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On Wednesday, President Trump publicly voiced his disagreements with Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and his melancholic warnings about reopening schools in the fall.
Speaking with Maria Bartiromo of <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-fauci-school-reopenings">FOX Business</a>, President Trump hailed Fauci as a &#8220;very good person,” while saying schools need to open &#8220;quickly&#8221; and safely.
“So [Dr.] Anthony [Fauci] is a good person, a very good person – I&#8217;ve disagreed with him,” Trump said. “We have to get the schools open, we have to get our country open, we have to open our country. Now, we want to do it safely, but we also want to do it as quickly as possible, we can&#8217;t keep going on like this … You&#8217;re having bedlam already in the streets, you can&#8217;t do this. We have to get it open. I totally disagree with him on schools.”
The president&#8217;s statement echoed one he made in a press briefing on Wednesday when he said that the country may not bounce back if schools continue to remain closed.
On Tuesday, Fauci testified before a U.S. Senate committee, stressing that COVID-19 could see a resurgence as states and cities reopen their economies. He also cautioned against reopening schools in the fall.
“If this were a situation where you had a vaccine, that would really be the end of the issue in a positive way,” Fauci said. “But as I mentioned in my opening remarks, even at the top speed we’re going, we don’t see a vaccine playing in the ability of individuals to get back to school this term.”
President Trump expressed bafflement over the answer. “I was surprised by his answer actually because it’s just to me it’s not an acceptable answer, especially when it comes to schools,” he said.
Also on Tuesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-rand-paul-spars-with-fauci-ridiculous-to-cancel-school-in-the-fall-i-dont-think-youre-the-end-all">challenged Fauci</a> on some of his assertions and called for some humility in the predictions based on the current data.
“I think that … we’re going to have a national one-size-fits-all approach – nobody’s going to go to school, is kind of ridiculous,” Paul told Fauci. “We really ought to be doing it school district by school district, and the power needs to be dispersed because people make wrong predictions.”
Senator Paul noted that the mortality rates have varied by region and criticized the experts for crafting policies based on faulty scientific models that have been largely disproven, some as recently as this week.
“We ought to have a little bit of humility in our belief that we know what’s best for the economy,” said Paul. “And, as much as I respect you, Dr. Fauci, I don’t think you’re the end-all. I don’t think you’re the one person that gets to make the decision. We can listen to your advice, but there are people on the other sides saying that there’s not going to be a surge, and we can safely open the economy and the facts will bear this out.”
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White House Coronavirus Task Force Holds Daily Briefing At The White House

Trump: ‘I Totally Disagree’ With Fauci On Keeping Schools Closed

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testified before the U.S. Senate on Tuesday that the Trump administration responded to the coronavirus pandemic by hitting the &#8220;accelerator in every aspect.&#8221;
Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) asked Fauci, &#8220;Has anybody in this administration ever asked you or any member to take the foot off the gas of trying to find a cure or any type of counter measure?&#8221;
&#8220;No, Senator, not at all,&#8221; Fauci said. &#8220;As a matter of fact, we at NIH, as you know, have right from the very beginning put our foot right on that accelerator in every aspect, including the development of vaccines and therapeutics.&#8221;
&#8220;And as I described my opening statement, we actually started that in January, literally days after the virus was known and its sequence was published,&#8221; Fauci continued. &#8220;So no, I have never been told by anyone to hold back on the development of any countermeasure or any basic research project that we’ve been involved in.&#8221;
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Fauci also highlighted the work that the NIH has done in developing a vaccine which Fauci <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1260257353825386497">said</a> was the fastest that anyone has ever moved to get to a phase one trial.
&#8220;The NIH trial moved very quickly,&#8221; Fauci said. &#8220;On January 10th, the sequence was known. On January the 11th, the Vaccine Research Center met to develop a plan. On the 14th of January, we officially started the vaccine development. 62 days later, we are now in Phase I clinical trial with the two doses already fully enrolled. There will be animal safety. The Phase I will directly go into Phase II-III in late spring and early summer. If we are successful, we hope to know that in the late fall and early winter.&#8221;
&#8220;There are some important issues, however, in COVID-19 vaccine development,&#8221; Fauci continued. &#8220;We have many candidates and hope to have multiple winners. In other words, it’s multiple shots on goal. This will be important because this will be good for global availability if we have more than one successful candidate. We also, as the chairman mentioned, will be producing vaccine at risk, which means we’ll be investigating considerable resources in developing doses even before we know any given candidate or candidates work.&#8221;
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Fauci, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Stephen Hahn and Assistant Secretary for Health Brett Giroir all confirmed during their testimonies that they had a non-confrontational relationship with President Donald Trump and that the president listens to their scientific advice.
Their statements came in response to a question from Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), who asked,&#8221; The mainstream media and indeed some of my colleagues in the Senate seem to want to paint each of your relationships with our president during this wartime effort as confrontational and lacking consensus. Can you categorically say here to the American people today whether this is true or untrue?&#8221;
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Dr. Fauci Testifies: Trump Admin Hit The ‘Accelerator In Every Aspect’ In Responding To Coronavirus

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), an ophthalmologist who recently recovered from COVID-19, sparred with Dr. Anthony Fauci,  the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, over his suggestion that the lockdowns should continue and that schools should be closed through the fall semester.
During his testimony before a U.S. Senate committee on Tuesday, Fauci covered a range of topics, stressing that COVID-19 could see a resurgence as states and cities reopen their economies, which have been crippled as a result of the shutdowns he advocated for.
“I think that … we’re going to have a national one-size-fits-all approach — nobody’s going to go to school, is kind of ridiculous,&#8221; Paul told Fauci. &#8220;We really ought to be doing it school district by school district, and the power needs to be dispersed because people make wrong predictions.&#8221;
Senator Paul noted that the mortality rates have varied by region and criticized the experts for crafting policies based on faulty scientific models that have been largely disproven, some as recently as this week.
&#8220;We ought to have a little bit of humility in our belief that we know what’s best for the economy,&#8221; said Paul. &#8220;And, as much as I respect you, Dr. Fauci, I don’t think you’re the end-all. I don’t think you’re the one person that gets to make the decision. We can listen to your advice, but there are people on the other sides saying that there’s not going to be a surge, and we can safely open the economy and the facts will bear this out.&#8221;
Fauci pushed back on Paul&#8217;s comments by clarifying that he is just a public health official and a scientist who simply gives his opinion based on the available evidence.
&#8220;Sen. Paul, thank you for your comments, I have never made myself out to be the end-all and only voice of this,&#8221; Fauci said. &#8220;I&#8217;m a scientist, a physician, and a public health official. I give advice according to the best scientific evidence.&#8221;
Fauci then pointed out that some <a href="https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-children-inflammatory-shock-37a6ce9c-8645-4945-955d-42cf0afc08ac.html" data-analytics-module="body_link" data-analytics-post-depth="80">cases with children</a> show that COVID-19 could be associated with an inflammatory syndrome similar to Kawasaki disease, stressing that people should be &#8220;careful&#8221; regarding the virus.
&#8220;We don&#8217;t know everything about this virus and we really better be very careful, particularly when it comes from children,&#8221; Fauci said. &#8220;For example, right now children presenting with COVID-19 who actually have a very strange inflammatory syndrome.&#8221;
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Prior to his testimony on Tuesday, Fauci warned that there will be &#8220;needless suffering and death&#8221; if we open the country too quickly.
“If we skip over the checkpoints in the guidelines to: ‘Open America Again,’ then we risk the danger of multiple outbreaks throughout the country,” Fauci said in an email to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/us/coronavirus-updates.html?action=click&amp;module=Spotlight&amp;pgtype=Homepage">The New York Times</a>. “This will not only result in needless suffering and death, but would actually set us back on our quest to return to normal.”
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Health Agency Chiefs Testify During Senate HELP Committee Hearing

WATCH: Rand Paul Spars With Fauci: ‘Ridiculous’ To Cancel School In The Fall, ‘I Don’t Think You’re The End-All’

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Dr. Anthony Fauci is set to tell a U.S. Senate committee on Tuesday that the U.S. risks &#8220;needless suffering and death&#8221; if states open up too soon, according to a new report.
&#8220;If we skip over the checkpoints in the guidelines to: &#8216;Open America Again,&#8217; then we risk the danger of multiple outbreaks throughout the country,&#8221; Fauci said in an email to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/us/coronavirus-updates.html?action=click&amp;module=Spotlight&amp;pgtype=Homepage">The New York Times</a>. &#8220;This will not only result in needless suffering and death, but would actually set us back on our quest to return to normal.&#8221;
Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984 and a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, will testify Tuesday  before the Senate Health Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. The hearing will mark the first time senators examine the effectiveness of the Trump administration&#8217;s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Democrats have been sharpening their knives.
&#8220;The fact of the matter is, President Trump has been more focused on fighting against the truth, than fighting this virus — and Americans have sadly paid the price,&#8221; Washington Sen. Patty Murray, the top Democrat on the committee, plans to say Tuesday, according to excerpts of her opening statement.
&#8220;Since this Committee last heard from these witnesses on March 3rd, we have seen over 900 deaths in my home state of Washington, over 80,000 deaths nationally, and the numbers continue to climb,&#8221; Murray plans to say. &#8220;Still, President Trump is trying to ignore the facts, and ignore the experts who have been clear we are nowhere close to where we need to be to reopen safely.&#8221;
The guidelines released by the White House in mid-April set three phases of 14 days each in which to reopen busineses and schools, with a focus on stemming the spread of the virus.
In Phase One, healthy people can go back out in public but all should practice social distancing, avoid groups of more than 10, and try not to travel too far. Restaurants can reopen with social distancing but schools and bars would stay closed.
In Phase Two, schools and bars could reopen and gatherings of 50 or fewer can occur. Americans could also resume non-essential travel.
And in Phase Three, vulnerable people could resume public interactions and larger gatherings would be allowed.
While Fauci, who has been exposed to COVID-19 by infected staffers in the White House and has been undergoing a modified quarantine, will appear in person for the hearing, three of the witnesses and the committee&#8217;s chairman are set to appear remotely because they&#8217;re self-isolating after contact with individuals who tested positive for coronavirus.
Committee Chairman Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN)  plans to use Tuesday&#8217;s hearing to detail White House efforts since the pandemic hit the U.S. But Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who has been attacking Trump for years, hopes for a different scenario.
&#8220;Dr. Fauci, let it rip,&#8221; Schumer said in a statement Monday night.
&#8220;Dr. Fauci is a truth-teller, that&#8217;s his reputation. It seems he has sort of muted the truth some in the presence of the President &#8230; he has to tell the whole truth here,&#8221; Schumer told CNN&#8217;s John Berman on &#8220;New Day&#8221; Tuesday morning.
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Fauci To Warn Senate Of ‘Needless Suffering And Death’ If U.S. Reopens Too Soon; Democrats To Fauci ‘Let It Rip’

With Americans growing increasingly desperate to see some form of organized sports on their flatscreen TVs, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a lead voice on the White House Coronavirus Task Force, offered some discouraging comments for all those hoping that America&#8217;s most popular sport is coming back in full force in fall. Football presents &#8220;the perfect set up for spreading,&#8221; says Fauci. But the infectious disease expert is also throwing fans a little hope, suggesting that it might be possible not only to have some version of a football season, but some games might even feature fans in stadiums.
In an <a href="https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2020/05/11/nfl-season-dr-fauci-coronavirus-fmia-peter-king/">interview</a> with NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Football Morning in America&#8221; published Monday, Fauci told Peter King that as much as America is clamoring for football to return as scheduled, in the end, &#8220;The virus will make the decision for us.&#8221;
&#8220;Suppose you test a team of 53 players on a Saturday night and four are positive,&#8221; King asked Fauci. &#8220;Is there a level at which—&#8221;
But before King could even finish the question, Fauci interjected, &#8220;You got a problem there.&#8221;
&#8220;You know why? Because it is likely that if four of them are positive and they’ve been hanging around together, that the other ones that are negative are really positive,&#8221; the infectious disease expert explained. &#8220;So I mean, if you have one outlier [only one player testing positive], I think you might get away. But once you wind up having a situation where it looks like it’s spread within a team, you got a real problem. You gotta shut it down.&#8221;
What exactly does he mean by &#8220;shut it down&#8221;? &#8220;Quarantine the team,&#8221; King writes. &#8220;The next two games for that team? Cancelled or postponed. That could be life in the NFL in 2020.&#8221;
&#8220;I think it’s feasible that negative testing players could play to an empty stadium,&#8221; Fauci told King later. &#8220;Is it guaranteed? No way &#8230; There will be virus out there and you will know your players are negative at the time they step onto the field.&#8221;
Not exactly what the football-loving nation wants to hear.
And, unlike some other sports, where the real problem would be all the fans, thus fan-less events would mostly do the trick, the close-contact nature of football makes it particularly problematic, suggested Fauci.
&#8220;This is a respiratory virus, so it’s going to be spread by shedding virus,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The problem with virus shedding is that if I have it in my nasal pharynx, and it sheds and I wipe my hand against my nose — now it’s on my hand. You see, then I touch my chest or my thigh, then it’s on my chest or my thigh for at least a few hours. Sweat as such won’t transmit it. But if people are in such close contact as football players are on every single play, then that’s the perfect set up for spreading. I would think that if there is an infected football player on the field — a middle linebacker, a tackle, whoever it is it—as soon as they hit the next guy, the chances are that they will be shedding virus all over that person. If you really want to be in a situation where you want to be absolutely certain, you’d test all the players before the game. And you say, &#8216;Those who are infected: Sorry, you’re sidelined. Those who are free: Get in there and play.'&#8221;
Fauci also addressed the question of how many fans, if any, we might see during the season. There&#8217;s some good news there: we might be able to get some fans back in those venues at some point in the season, Fauci suggested.
&#8220;[I]f the virus is so low that even in the general community the risk is low, then I could see filling a third of the stadium or half the stadium so people could be six feet apart,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I mean, that’s something that is again feasible depending on the level of infection. I keep getting back to that: It’s going to depend. Like, right now, if you fast forward, and it is now September. The season starts. I say you can’t have a season—it’s impossible. There’s too much infection out there. It doesn’t matter what you do. But I would hope that by the time you get to September it’s not gonna be the way it is right now.&#8221;
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Fauci Has Both Bad And Good News For Football Fans

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and two other top scientific members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force have entered self-quarantines after coming into contact with or being near someone who has tested positive for the coronavirus.
The other two officials who have entered self-quarantine are Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Dr. Stephen Hahn, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.
&#8220;The actions come after the disclosure on Friday that Vice President Mike Pence’s press secretary, Katie Miller, tested positive for the virus,&#8221; The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/09/us/coronavirus-news-updates.html">reported</a>. &#8220;Ms. Miller has attended numerous meetings of the White House’s coronavirus task force, which also includes Dr. Redfield, Dr. Hahn and Dr. Fauci.&#8221;
The news also comes after the White House said this week that a military aide, who was described as a valet for President Donald Trump, also tested positive for the coronavirus.
“The president’s physician and White House operations continue to work closely to ensure every precaution is taken to keep the president, first family and the entire White House complex safe and healthy at all times,” White House spokesman Judd Deere <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-aides-rattled-after-positive-coronavirus-tests-and-officials-send-mixed-message-on-how-to-respond/2020/05/09/6dab2df6-920d-11ea-a9c0-73b93422d691_story.html">said</a>. “In addition to social distancing, daily temperature checks and symptom histories, hand sanitizer, and regular deep cleaning of all work spaces, every staff member in proximity to the president and vice president is being tested daily for covid-19 as well as any guests.”
&#8220;The Secret Service has 11 active cases of the coronavirus and 23 employees who have recovered, current and former government officials said Friday, but it was unclear whether any were agents or served in the White House,&#8221; The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/08/us/politics/white-house-coronavirus-safety.html">said</a> in a separate report. &#8220;The service, which has 150 offices across the country responsible for protecting a variety of dignitaries and investigating financial crimes, also has 60 others undergoing self-quarantine.&#8221;
A White House memo reportedly said that the White House will receive &#8220;heightened levels of daily cleaning&#8221; during this time and that anyone who leaves the Washington, D.C., area must quarantine themselves for two weeks.
The news comes as states across the U.S. are slowly starting to reopen after being shutdown in an attempt to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, which originated in Wuhan, China.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced on Thursday that Republican members of Congress had launched a “China Task Force” to address a wide variety of threats posed by communist China.
McCarthy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kevin-mccarthy-announces-china-task-force-to-take-on-china-democrats-refuse-to-join">highlighted</a> some of China’s actions during the pandemic:
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<li>Hid the severity of the virus and manipulated statistics, leaving the world reeling from a global pandemic</li>
<li>Still refuses to allow international experts to investigate or share viral samples with the scientific community</li>
<li>Forced the disappearance of whistleblowers</li>
<li>Is carrying out a comprehensive propaganda campaign to spread misinformation</li>
<li>Leveraged its supply chain monopoly for global influence</li>
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Fauci, Two Other Top Members Of Task Force Enter Quarantine After Possible Coronavirus Exposure

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New White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany shutdown left-wing ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl during a press briefing on Wednesday on the subject of Dr. Anthony Fauci testifying before the U.S. Senate.
&#8220;Does the White House really believe that you can decide to have officials testify in the Republican-controlled Senate but not testify in the Democratic-controlled House?&#8221; Karl asked. &#8220;Doesn’t the House have legitimate oversight and a legitimate, not only responsibility, not just authority, but a responsibility to have somebody like Anthony Fauci testify?&#8221;
&#8220;Will Dr. Fauci be questioned by Democrats in that Senate hearing?&#8221; McEnany asked.
&#8220;Yes, he will be,&#8221; Karl responded. &#8220;But are you saying, so the Senate’s fine, the House has no role in oversight?&#8221;
&#8220;The House needs to act in good faith. We don’t have time in the middle of a pandemic for publicity stunts. It’s not the time for that. It’s not the place for that,&#8221; McEnany responded. &#8220;In the course of three phone calls, you should be able to give the subject matter to ensure it’s the best use of Dr. Fauci’s time. As you yourself noted, in the Republican-controlled Senate, Dr. Fauci will indeed be asked questions by Democrats.&#8221;
McEnany&#8217;s comments come after House Democrats tried to remove President Donald Trump from power last year through impeachment, which failed during the Senate trial. No Republicans voted for House Democrats&#8217; articles of impeachment while multiple Democrats voted against it and one Democrat <a href="https://video.foxnews.com/v/6117647025001/?playlist_id=3386055101001">switched</a> parties over it.
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ABC&#39;s Karl: &quot;Yes he will be&#8230;&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PressSec</a>: &quot;The House needs to act in good faith.We don&#39;t have time in the middle of a pandemic for publicity stunts.&quot;
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<blockquote>ABC NEWS REPORTER JONATHAN KARL: If I can just come back to Jeff’s question about Dr. Fauci and in the President’s statement, too many Trump haters in the House. Does the White House really believe that you can decide to have officials testify in the Republican-controlled Senate but not testify in the Democratic-controlled House? Doesn’t the House have legitimate oversight and a legitimate, not only responsibility, not just authority, but a responsibility to have somebody like Anthony Fauci testify?
WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY KAYLEIGH MCENANY: Will Dr. Fauci be questioned by Democrats in that Senate hearing?
KARL: Yes, he will be. But are you saying, so the Senate’s fine, the House has no role in oversight?
MCENANY: The House needs to act in good faith. We don’t have time in the middle of a pandemic for publicity stunts. It’s not the time for that. It’s not the place for that.
KARL: [This is] congressional testimony, this isn’t-
MCENANY: In the course of three phone calls, you should be able to give the subject matter to ensure it’s the best use of Dr. Fauci’s time. As you yourself noted, in the Republican-controlled Senate, Dr. Fauci will indeed be asked questions by Democrats.</blockquote>

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany Holds Briefing With Media At White House

Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany Shuts Down Left-Wing ABC News Reporter Over Fauci Question

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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, said the Trump administration is pushing to develop a vaccine for COVID-19 and could have one ready to go by January.
“We want to go quickly, but we want to make sure it’s safe and it’s effective,” Fauci said on NBC’s “Today” show on Thursday. “I think that is doable if things fall in the right place.”
Asked by host Savannah Guthrie whether hundreds of millions of doses could be ready by January, Fauci said that’s possible.
“But just remember, go back in time,” he said. “I was saying in January and February that it would be a year to 18 months. So January is a year. So it isn’t that much from what I had originally said.”
The federal government has set up an initiative called “Operation Warp Speed,” which combines private pharmaceutical companies, government agencies and the military in an effort to crunch down the time it takes to produce a vaccine. The usual time, with complete testing on a broad spectrum of humans, often runs up to two years.
&#8220;The project’s goal is to have 300 million doses of vaccine available by January, according to one administration official. There is no precedent for such rapid development of a vaccine,&#8221; <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-29/trump-s-operation-warp-speed-aims-to-rush-coronavirus-vaccine?sref=90st31p7">Bloomberg News</a> reported.
<blockquote>Last month, Trump directed Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar to speed development of a vaccine, and administration officials have been meeting on the effort for three to four weeks, one of the people said. A meeting on the project was scheduled at the White House on Wednesday.
The people familiar with the project and the administration officials asked not to be identified because it hasn’t yet been publicly announced.
A spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services, Michael Caputo, said the president refused to accept the timeline for standard vaccine development and encouraged a breakthrough process.</blockquote>
Meanwhile, word emerged Wednesday that remdesivir, a drug used to treat Ebola, may also be useful in treating COVID-19, with the drug meeting its “primary endpoint” in official testing, the biotech giant Gilead Sciences announced.
The antiviral drug has been in tests with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ (NIAID). The trial included 397 patients, evaluating the safety and efficacy of five-day and 10-day dosing regimens of remdesivir in hospitalized patients with severe symptoms of COVID-19.
&#8220;Gilead Sciences. Inc. is aware of positive data emerging from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ (NIAID) study of the investigational antiviral remdesivir for the treatment of COVID-19. We understand that the trial has met its primary endpoint and that NIAID will provide detailed information at an upcoming briefing,&#8221; the company said in a statement.
Reaching the primary endpoint would mean that patients who took remdesivir recovered more quickly than those taking a placebo, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-treatment-gilead-says-positive-data-remdesivir-from-niaid-study-2020-4">Business Insider</a> reported.
&#8220;Certainly it&#8217;s a very positive event,” Trump said.
Fauci also weighed in on the development, saying, &#8220;This is very optimistic, the mortality rate trended towards being better in the sense of less deaths in the REM designate group. 8% versus 11% in the placebo group. So bottom line. You&#8217;re going to hear more details about this this will be submitted to a peer reviewed journal, and will be peer reviewed appropriately.&#8221;
Scientists at Oxford University also announced this week that their tests for a potential COVID-19 vaccine has so far proven effective on rhesus macaque monkeys, which were inoculated at a lab in Montana in May and stayed healthy for a full month despite repeated exposure to the virus, The New York Times reported.
While the findings don&#8217;t mean the vaccine will also work on humans, rhesus macaque monkeys are as close a test subject as can be used. The researchers hope to move forward with human testing on more than 6,000 people by the end of May.
Said <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/world/europe/coronavirus-vaccine-update-oxford.html?auth=login-email&amp;login=email">the Times</a>:
<blockquote>Most other teams have had to start with small clinical trials of a few hundred participants to demonstrate safety. But scientists at the university’s Jenner Institute had a head start on a vaccine, having proved in previous trials that similar inoculations — including one last year against an earlier coronavirus — were harmless to humans.
That has enabled them to leap ahead and schedule tests of their new coronavirus vaccine involving more than 6,000 people by the end of next month, hoping to show not only that it is safe, but also that it works.
The Oxford scientists now say that with an emergency approval from regulators, the first few million doses of their vaccine could be available by September — at least several months ahead of any of the other announced efforts — if it proves to be effective.
Now, they have received promising news suggesting that it might.
Scientists at the National Institutes of Health’s Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Montana last month inoculated six rhesus macaque monkeys with single doses of the Oxford vaccine. The animals were then exposed to heavy quantities of the virus that is causing the pandemic — exposure that had consistently sickened other monkeys in the lab. But more than 28 days later all six were healthy, said Vincent Munster, the researcher who conducted the test.</blockquote>
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Dr. Fauci Reveals When U.S. Could Have COVID-19 Vaccine

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On Thursday, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared on “TODAY” to discuss several new developments in the fight against COVID-19.
First, anchor Savannah Guthrie asked Fauci about the reportedly successful trial of the drug remdesivir, which is manufactured by biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences.
“You said that remdesivir is not a knockout, this isn&#8217;t a miracle drug, but it sounds like it is a breakthrough,” Guthrie said. “Can you explain why?”
Fauci replied, stressing the importance of the trial process:
<blockquote>Well, it&#8217;s a really important proof of concept because this is the first very highly-powered – about 1,100 individuals, and it was a placebo controlled, randomized trial, which I&#8217;ve been talking about for some time now, which is really the gold standard of how you prove something is safe, and either works or doesn&#8217;t work.</blockquote>
Fauci was prudent in his assessment of the significance of the treatment.
“And although the results were clearly positive from a statistically significant standpoint, they were modest,” Fauci stated. “The improvement was 31% better chance of recovering and getting out of the hospital.”
<blockquote>That’s important, but it&#8217;s the first step in what we project will be better and better drugs coming along, either alone or in combination, drugs of this type and drugs addressing other targets of the virus. So, it&#8217;s good news, but I was very serious when I said this is not the total answer by any means – but it&#8217;s a very important first step.</blockquote>
Guthrie proceeded to ask Dr. Fauci about the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granting “emergency usage” for remdesivir, and how quickly he anticipates the drug coming into mass use.
While Fauci said he expects it to be soon, he added that the FDA has reportedly not “made a final decision” just yet.
Guthrie pressed Fauci on whether or not it would be possible to push out remdesivir quickly “enough to make a difference,” as the drug is “intravenous” and reportedly “takes months and months to manufacture.”
Gilead is allegedly “committed to get it out as much as they can as quickly as they can,” according to Fauci.
“I&#8217;m pretty confident that that will be the case because I believe they&#8217;re committed to trying to get this out as quickly as possible,” Fauci added. “So, we&#8217;ll see, but I think it&#8217;s gonna happen.”
Guthrie and Fauci also discussed the timeline for a potential vaccine for COVID-19.
“The administration has confirmed that it has a program called Operation Warp Speed &#8230; with, according to reports, the goal to speed the timeline for a vaccine to develop hundreds of millions of doses to be ready by January,” Guthrie said. “Do you feel that&#8217;s in the realm of possibility?”
Fauci said that he believes it is indeed possible, and that they’re looking for a “safe” and “effective” vaccine, which if successful, could be scaled “rapidly.”
After noting that they’re in the process of a Phase 1 vaccine trial, Fauci said that as the next phase begins, they will determine as swiftly as possible if the vaccine is effective in order to begin early mass production “at risk.”
“In other words, you don&#8217;t wait until you get an answer before you start manufacturing. You, at risk, proactively start making it assuming it&#8217;s going to work, and if it does, then you could scale up and hopefully get to that timeline,” Fauci stated.
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According to the Gilead Sciences <a href="https://www.gilead.com/purpose/advancing-global-health/covid-19/about-remdesivir">official website</a>:
<blockquote>Remdesivir is an investigational nucleotide analog with broad-spectrum antiviral activity – it is not approved anywhere globally for any use. Remdesivir has demonstrated in vitro and in vivo activity in animal models against the viral pathogens MERS and SARS, which are also coronaviruses and are structurally similar to COVID-19. The limited preclinical data on remdesivir in MERS and SARS indicate that remdesivir may have potential activity against COVID-19.</blockquote>
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Fauci On Remdesivir Trial: ‘Clearly Positive’ But ‘Modest’; A ‘First Step’ To ‘Better Drugs’

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Dr. Anthony Fauci says the U.S. needs to triple its testing for COVID-19 to find out how widespread the virus truly is.
The U.S. has now tested 4,026,572 Americans, according to <a href="https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6">Johns Hopkins</a> Center for Systems Science and Engineering. That&#8217;s about 1.2% of the 328 million people in the U.S.
&#8220;We&#8217;re only doing 1.5 to 2 million a week,&#8221;  said the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. &#8220;We really need to get up to at least maybe two times that, three times that.&#8221;
&#8220;We are certainly going to need more,&#8221; Fauci said on &#8220;<a href="https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/video/dr-anthony-fauci-reviews-latest-approach-reopening-us-70238315">Good Morning America</a>.&#8221;
The immunologist also said that testing for antibodies to the virus — which may indicate that someone has already had the virus and therefore might be immune, at least for a period of time — might not be the be-all, end-all.
&#8220;There really is a lot of misunderstanding about antibody tests,&#8221; Fauci said. &#8220;It’s saying whether you were exposed, infected, and recovered from that infection. The problem is that these are tests that need to be validated and calibrated&#8230; but the problem is a lot of tests don’t do that,&#8221; he said.
Numerous tests — none of them yet peer-reviewed and some of them unscientific — show that the number of Americans who have antibodies is higher than the number of confirmed cases.
In a new study, conducted by the University of Southern California and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, researchers suggest that as many as 442,000 Los Angeles County residents might have already been infected with the coronavirus by early April. In the study of more than 860 adults tested for COVID-19 antibodies in their blood, researchers found 4.1% have the antibodies.
&#8220;That translates to roughly 221,000 to 442,000 adults who have recovered from an infection, once margin of error is taken into account, according to the researchers conducting the study,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-20/coronavirus-serology-testing-la-county">Los Angeles Times</a> reported. &#8220;The estimated infection numbers are 28 to 55 times higher than the 7,994 confirmed COVID-19 cases L.A. County had reported at the time of the study in early April.&#8221;
Other reports indicate more Americans than currently known have already had the coronavirus — but showed no symptoms at all. &#8220;Based on known cases, health officials have said the virus usually causes mild or moderate flu-like illness,&#8221; The <a href="https://apnews.com/d20f283318c86bec3cc2d3d7936a9612">Associated Press</a> reported Monday. &#8220;Now evidence is growing that a substantial number of people may have no symptoms at all.&#8221;
But Fauci said, &#8220;We do not know exactly what an antibody title means.&#8221;
&#8220;There’s a reasonable assumption that when you have an antibody that you are protected against re-infection, but that has not been proven for this particular virus,&#8221; he said in his interview.
&#8220;But we don’t know how long that protection — if it exists — lasts. Is it one month, three months, six months, a year?&#8221; he said. And the doctor said it could still be a while before there is an accurate — and approved — antibody test.
&#8220;If you have an antibody test&#8230; Unless that test has been validated and you can show there’s a correlation between the antibody and infection, it’s an assumption to say this is something we can work with,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There’s still a ways to go with that.&#8221;
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The White House Holds Daily Briefing On Coronavirus Pandemic

Fauci Warns U.S. Needs To Triple Coronavirus Testing, Questions Antibody Test Results

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said that reopening the country too quickly could seriously backfire and asked protesters, who have demonstrated in several state capitals over the last week, to have patience.
&#8220;Clearly, this is something that is hurting from the standpoint of economics and the standpoint of things that have nothing to do with the virus, but unless we get the virus under control, the real recovery economically is not going to happen,&#8221; Fauci said on &#8220;Good Morning America.&#8221;
Fauci said that opening the economy too soon could make matters worse by causing a massive spike that sets the country back even further than where it was when the coronavirus pandemic began.
&#8220;So what you do if you jump the gun and go into a situation where you have a big spike, you’re going to set yourself back,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So as painful as it is to go by the careful guidelines of gradually phasing into a reopening, it’s going to backfire. That’s the problem.&#8221;
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“Clearly this is something that this is hurting …. but unless we get the virus under control, the real recovery, economically, is not going to happen.” — NIAID director Dr. Anthony Fauci on protests against stay-at-home orders. <a href="https://t.co/n7x3cunEAm">pic.twitter.com/n7x3cunEAm</a>
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Since last week, protests have been mounting all across the country, most especially in blue states, as people express their desire to have the economy open up, fearing that the lockdowns have caused irreversible damage. Speaking to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/nancy-pelosi-protests-stay-at-home-orders-chris-wallace-fox-news-sunday">Fox News on Sunday</a>, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said the protests were &#8220;unfortunate.&#8221;
&#8220;People are taking to the streets, pushing back against some of the more stringent restrictions in some states. Can you understand why they&#8217;re doing that?&#8221; host Chris Wallace asked Pelosi.
&#8220;No, not, not really because what we have to do is, is, is shelter in place. That is really the answer,&#8221; Pelosi responded.
&#8220;Testing. Tracing. Treatment. Shelter in place. And I do think that it&#8217;s unfortunate,&#8221; Pelosi she added. &#8220;But, you know, people will do what they do. But the fact is, we&#8217;re all impatient. We all want out. But what they&#8217;re doing is really unfortunate.&#8221;
Though some protests have been conducted responsibly, others have openly flouted social distancing, with most, if not all, of those in attendance not wearing masks. Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/coronavirus-california-stay-at-home-order-protest-orange-county-san-clemente">profiled</a> one such protest in San Clemente, California, over the weekend where one attendee even went as far to cough on a photographer covering the event:
<blockquote>Attendees of the Sunday rally in San Clemente did not practice social distancing guidelines by standing close together and many did not wear masks.
Many were pictured wearing red, white and blue clothing, hugging, and carrying signs that read “No Liberty, No Life, Re-open California,” “Our Freedom Is Not Yours to Take,&#8221; and &#8220;Pandemics does NOT cancel our Constitutional rights!! Freedom over fear.&#8221;
The few who appeared to counterprotest the rally said they thought the stay-at-home order was necessary and that officials should not ease restrictions.
There were heated moments between the two groups, but the Orange County Sheriff’s Department <a href="https://www.ocregister.com/2020/04/19/hundreds-protest-stay-at-home-order-in-san-clemente/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">told the Orange County Register</a> that no arrests or citations were reported.
Protesters also took aim at the media covering the event with signs such as &#8220;The Media Is the Virus.”
A photographer from FOX11 was intentionally coughed on by a protester who did not agree with news coverage, but is expected to be OK, according to the station.</blockquote>
Last week, President Trump <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/493329-trump-appears-to-back-those-protesting-social-distancing-measures">announced his support</a> for protesters in the states of Minnesota, Michigan and Virginia with calls to &#8220;liberate&#8221; residents of those states. On Sunday, the president further reiterated his support.
&#8220;As far as protesters, you know, I see protesters for all sorts of things,&#8221; Trump said Sunday. &#8220;And I’m with everybody. I&#8217;m with everybody.&#8221;

Dr. Fauci: Reopening Too Quickly Could Backfire

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has given his blessing to lonely people looking to hook up during the coronavirus pandemic &#8212; sort of.
A confused Dr. Fauci was asked about hookups at the tail end of an interview with Snapchat&#8217;s &#8220;Good Luck America&#8221; news program and was forced to give advice on how to handle being particularly lonely &#8212; and unwilling to simply stay home &#8212; in the age of coronavirus.
“If you’re swiping on a dating app like Tinder, or Bumble or Grindr, and you match with someone that you think is hot, and you’re just kind of like, ‘Maybe it’s fine if this one stranger comes over.’ What do you say to that person?” the host asked Dr. Fauci, apparently channeling the burning questions of Snapchat&#8217;s users.
&#8220;You know, that’s tough,” Dr. Fauci answered, <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/04/15/fauci-endorses-tinder-hookups-with-a-caveat/">according to the New York Post</a>. “Because that’s what’s called relative risk.”
He then tried to explain the concept of weighing the satisfaction of a coronavirus lockdown-defying hookup against the possibility of contracting the novel coronavirus, which causes COVID-19 &#8212; a disease that, while primarily problematic for the elderly, is plenty risky for those of the age to use social media dating applications.
“If you’re willing to take a risk — and you know, everybody has their own tolerance for risks — you could figure out if you want to meet somebody,” Dr. Fauci replied.  “If you want to go a little bit more intimate, well, then that’s your choice regarding a risk.”
The risk of contracting the novel coronavirus through sexual contact is pretty high, at least according to pamphlets distributed by the New York and Oregon departments of health, which go into great detail over how to protect yourself from contracting COVID-19 during a romantic encounter.
While the virus isn&#8217;t technically a sexually transmitted disease, it can be transmitted through droplets of saliva, making kissing particularly problematic. The New York and Oregon health departments both suggest that only people who live together should be intimate during the lockdown and that, when it comes to hookups, the best romantic encounters are &#8220;socially distant,&#8221; and preferably digital.
Dr. Fauci went on to remind Snapchat users that the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is particularly sneaky, and that around 40% of people who contract the virus show no symptoms. Hooking up with someone who appears to be feeling well is no guarantee that you&#8217;re hooking up with someone who isn&#8217;t a carrier for the virus.
“What we’re seeing,&#8217; Dr. Fauci noted, &#8220;which becomes really problematic, is that there’s a considerable amount of transmission from an asymptomatic person.”
Intimacy during the coronavirus pandemic has been a hot topic among both advice columnists and governmental agencies in recent weeks, as coronavirus-related lockdowns drag on. Some experts have even suggested that, in addition to shortages of food and toilet paper, the world could be staring down a condom shortage and, come November and December, a significant population boom.
So far, despite his interview with Snapchat, neither Dr. Fauci nor the federal government have made any official proclamations about sexual health in a pandemic.

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Dr. Fauci Gives Go-Ahead To Pandemic Hookups ‘If You’re Willing To Take The Risk’

On his popular program Tuesday, conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh offered his theory on why President Trump is not pushing back more on the nation&#8217;s leading infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, at least &#8220;not publicly.&#8221;
One of the more prevalent COVID-19 crisis narratives pushed by the mainstream media is the supposed conflict between Trump and Fauci, who is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and one of the leading voices of the Coronavirus Task Force, which has directed the national response to the crisis. As the left-leaning media has repeatedly portrayed it, Fauci is supposedly at odds with Trump and rebuking him at nearly every turn — a narrative Fauci himself has refuted publicly.
Meanwhile, on the right, some have begun to criticize Fauci, casting him as an out-of-touch member of the elite and a product of the Washington &#8220;swamp&#8221; who Trump has trusted too much.
Limbaugh, as usual, has his own particular angle on the Trump-Fauci question. Asked by a caller Tuesday about why Trump seems to be &#8220;going along with everything&#8221; Fauci says, Limbaugh responded by offering his &#8220;take&#8221; on the issue.
&#8220;My take on Fauci is that it is a no-win to take on Fauci no matter what Trump wants to do,&#8221; said Limbaugh. &#8220;Fauci has had credibility with the American people for 40 years since the eighties, since the AIDS, HIV outbreak. And you have to pick your battles.&#8221;
&#8220;We don’t know how Trump is dealing with this privately,&#8221; Limbaugh stressed. &#8220;I’m telling you publicly he is not going to pick a fight with either Fauci or Team Scarf, not publicly.&#8221;
&#8220;Trump knows that the vast majority of people think and acknowledge that Fauci is a source authority on illness,&#8221; Rush explained. &#8220;The danger here is not that Fauci is an expert on that stuff. That can’t be denied. The danger is that we can’t be putting him in charge of when to open schools and when to open the NFL and when to do this or that.&#8221;
&#8220;You got a guy up there, Fauci, with 40 years’ experience, approval, credibility, authority,&#8221; Limbaugh continued after a break. &#8220;It just isn’t gonna happen publicly&#8230; In fact, I’ll tell you, if anybody is moving in any direction, it’s Dr. Fauci. Dr. Fauci has been asked twice in the last two briefings, essentially, &#8216;Please tell us that this guy’s an idiot. Please tell us that this guy’s an idiot and you’re saving him. Please tell us that he’s making you say things. Please tell us, Dr. Fauci, that Trump is making you say things and agree with him,&#8217; and Fauci said, &#8216;Nope. Not happening.'&#8221;
As Limbaugh referenced, Fauci has repeatedly pushed back on overt attempts by the media to get him to rebuke Trump and criticize his handling of the crisis. He has even specifically called out the media&#8217;s divisive tactics. Asked last month about media questions &#8220;designed to create a rift between you and the President of the United States,&#8221; the infectious disease expert <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/listen-fauci-blasts-media-for-trying-to-divide-him-and-trump">replied</a>:
<blockquote>That is really unfortunate. I would wish that that would stop because we have a much bigger problem here than trying to point out differences. There really, fundamentally at the core, when you look at things, there are not differences. The president has listened to what I have said and what the other people on the task force have said. When I have made recommendations he’s taken them; he’s never countered or overridden me; the idea of pitting one against the other is just not helpful. I wish that would stop and we’d look ahead at the challenge we have to pull together to get over this thing.</blockquote>
Limbaugh highlighted Fauci&#8217;s pushback against the attempt to drive a wedge between him and Trump, and the media&#8217;s consequent severe &#8220;frustration.&#8221;
&#8220;As I say, Dr. Fauci’s perfectly fine in terms of his medical qualifications to tell people about the virus and how it expands and how it can be dealt with and all that,&#8221; Limbaugh said. &#8220;But when Dr. Fauci is put in charge of when things reopen then that, to me, is going a little too far. And, of course, that’s something that media would love to happen. And they would love to be able to report that Fauci has taken over because he realizes Trump is an incompetent boob. That’s not going to happen, either&#8230; While many of you are sitting out there frustrated that Trump won’t do something about Fauci, let me tell you something: The real frustration is over at CNN and MSNBC that Fauci will not dump on Trump.&#8221;
Transcript via <a href="https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2020/04/14/my-take-on-trump-and-fauci/">RushLimbaugh.com</a>

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Rush Limbaugh: Here’s The Real Reason Trump Is Not Pushing Back More On Fauci

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Though she was sure to warn of temporary side effects from hydroxychloroquine, a drug President Donald Trump has suggested could be promising against the novel coronavirus, actress Rita Wilson said her fever broke after she took the therapeutic.
Wilson, along with her actor husband Tom Hanks, were two of the first celebrities to share with the public that they were infected with the China-originated coronavirus. As noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/update-tom-hanks-rita-wilson-recover-from-coronavirus-return-to-u-s">The Daily Wire</a>, the duo recovered from the virus in late March and returned home to the United States from Australia.
The &#8220;Mamma Mia&#8221; actress made the remarks about the chloroquine treatment on Tuesday morning, speaking to host Gayle King on CBS &#8220;This Morning&#8221; about the infection and her recovery.
&#8220;I felt extremely achy, uncomfortable, didn&#8217;t want to be touched, and then the fever started,&#8221; Wilson told King. &#8220;Chills like I&#8217;ve never had before.&#8221;
&#8220;On day nine, they gave me chloroquine,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;And I know people have been talking about this drug, but I can only tell you that, I don&#8217;t know if the drug worked or if it was just time for the fever to break, but my fever did break.&#8221;
Wilson went on to underscore the temporary side effects of the drug, such as nausea.
&#8220;But the chloroquine had such extreme side effects,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I was completely nauseous and I had vertigo. I could not walk and my muscles felt very weak.&#8221;
&#8220;I think people have to be very considerate about that drug,&#8221; Wilson added. &#8220;We don&#8217;t really know if it&#8217;s helpful in this case.&#8221;
In late March, “Lost” actor Daniel Dae Kim <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lost-actor-who-tested-positive-for-coronavirus-says-drug-secret-weapon-to-his-recover">credited</a> his COVID-19 recovery to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-says-these-two-drugs-could-be-game-changer-in-fight-against-virus">hydroxychloroquine</a>, calling it the “secret weapon” to his stabilized health.
“I need to say this in bold letters: Obviously, I am not a doctor, nor am I lawyer … So please don’t take my word as that of a medical professional,” Kim emphasized in a video posted to social media.
“That said, here is a treatment protocol I followed as prescribed by the amazing doctor,” he continued. “It was what’s called a drug cocktail, which means it’s a combination of different drugs. It consisted of Tamiflu, which is an anti-viral, the antibiotic azithromycin, more commonly known as a ‘Zpack,’ a glycopyrrolate inhaler, that was used to ease breathing and the inflammation commonly associated with COVID.”
“And here’s what I consider to be the secret weapon: hydroxychloroquine,” Kim stated. “This is a common anti-malarial drug that has been used with great success in Korea in their fight against the coronavirus. And yes, this is the drug that the president mentioned the other day.”
The actor noted it is “also the drug that Dr. Anthony Fauci cautioned us against,” noting that evidence of its effectiveness against COVID-19 is “anecdotal.”
“Well, add my name to those personal accounts, because I am feeling better,&#8221; Kim said.
Earlier this month, an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doctors-rate-hydroxychloroquine-most-effective-coronavirus-treatment">international poll</a> of more than 6,000 doctors found hydroxychloroquine was deemed the most highly rated treatment for COVID-19.
As noted by The Daily Wire, positive results from the drugs have thus far been largely anecdotal:
<blockquote>The Times repeatedly underscores that the treatment has not yet been proven to be effective by officials and highlights “concerns” among health experts about the Trump and Cuomo-promoted medications, which sometimes have dangerous side effects, like “fatal heart arrhythmia and vision loss.” Like The Washington Post’s editorial board, which has accused Trump of causing “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wapo-editors-lash-out-at-trump-for-spreading-false-hope-about-curing-virus">damage</a>” by pointing to the treatment as a potential “cure,” the Times suggests Trump, and to a lesser extent Cuomo, may be guilty of “raising false hopes in the American public” and “contribut[ing] to runs on supply and hoarding” of the drugs.</blockquote>
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RitaWilson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RitaWilson</a> tells <a href="https://twitter.com/GayleKing?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GayleKing</a> she took <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/chloroquine?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#chloroquine</a> to treat COVID-19: I can only tell you that I don&#39;t know if the drug worked or it was just time for the fever to break. My fever did break but the chloroquine had such extreme side effects&#8230; We don&#39;t really know if it&#39;s helpful <a href="https://t.co/8xej1NyhaQ">pic.twitter.com/8xej1NyhaQ</a>
&mdash; CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBSThisMorning/status/1250057683396370437?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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