Washington, United States.
The leading epidemiologist of United States, Anthony Fauci, confess this Thursday his relief by the departure of the former president Donald Trump, By assuring that it is “liberating” to be able to speak clearly about what science says about the covid-19 without fear a “Repercussions.”
Fauci, who is now the principal medical advisor of the new president, Joe Biden, he admitted the discomfort generated by his attitude towards the Trump pandemic, Which repeatedly minimized the risk posed by the coronavirus and contradicted on numerous occasions the conclusions of the experts.
“The idea that we can go up here and talk about what we know, what the scientific evidence, And letting science speak, is a feeling quite liberatingFauci said during a press conference at the White House.
The greatest expert on infectious diseases country said he “clearly” felt “uncomfortable” when, during press conferences in which they both participated for part of last year, Trump he said things “that had no basis in fact,” such as his defense of the hydroxychloroquine as a prophylactic against covid19.
“I don’t like being in a situation where I have to contradict the president, and I really didn’t feel like I could say anything and there would be no repercussions“He said.
Tension with Trump
the tension between Trump and Fauci has been growing over the last year, and the White house stopped inviting epidemiologist to give press conferences on the pandemic.
The former president even threatened to dismiss FauciBut then he realized he didn’t have the authority to do it, because his wasn’t one political office, But of civil service: the one of director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases of the United States (NIAID, in English).
Biden is the seventh president of United States to which he has advised Fauci, who has run NIAID since 1984 and is one of the most respected figures in the scientific community of country, a fame which has only increased during the pandemic.
In his first press conference under the mandate of Biden, Fauci thanked the new president for instructing him to be “completely transparent and honest “.
“One of the new things in this Administration is that if we don’t know the answer, we don’t need to venture one assumption. We just say that we don’t know the answer “, affirm.
During the press conference, Your jawmbién assured that for now there is no confirmation that the vSouth African Arian from Covid-19 has reached United States, while the British is already present in one 20 states.
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Everything points to the vaccines being administered in United States and other countries protect against these new ones variantsBut if injectable preparations need to be modified, this process “will not be too onerous,” he calculated.
The United States is the country in the world most affected by lthe pandemic in absolute terms, with more than 408,000 dead i 24.5 million infections, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Biden presented his strategy to accelerate the pandemic responsea, although he acknowledged that it will take him months to “turn around” the situation he inherited from Trump. EFE