Let’s catch up.
On Sunday, Dr. Fauci, or ‘America’s Doctor’, said Sunday morning that if lockdowns and social distancing guidelines were implemented by the president sooner, ‘more lives could have been saved.’
Echoing the CDC Director Robert Redfield comments, that the CDC had recommended more states issue lockdown orders as early as February, Fauci pushed the White House to implement social distancing guidelines in late February, but Trump delayed for another three weeks, until mid-march.
On CNN Sunday morning Fauci admitted that more could have been done that would have potentially slowed the spread and slowed the death toll.
‘Obviously you could logically say that if you had a process that was ongoing and you started mitigation earlier you could’ve saved lives, obviously,’ Fauci told CNN’s State of the Union.
‘No-one is going to deny that,’ he continued, but added ‘there was a lot of pushback about shutting things down back then’.
While Trump maintains he doesn’t watch ‘fake news’ on CNN the President immediately re-tweeted this message from Republican DeAnna Lorraine with the hashtag ‘fireFauci.’
‘Fauci is now saying that had Trump listened to the medical experts earlier he could’ve saved more lives. Fauci was telling people on February 29th that there was nothing to worry about and it posed no threat to the US public at large. Time to #FireFauci…’ the tweet read.
Let’s keep in mind the numbers: So far, more than 22,000 people have died in the U.S. from coronavirus and there are more than 561,000 cases as of Monday morning.
If Trump does indeed try to fire Dr. Fauci, as he has in the past with anyone who has disagreed with him, the President may be surprised by the blow-back. Polls show more Americans trust Fauci much more than they trust Trump.