Top US medical adviser Fauci says Trump’s coronavirus approach ‘very likely’ cost lives
- Many US states ‘want to have the capability of making their own decisions, but they also need resources, and they need help’, says Fauci
- Defence Secretary Lloyd announces pandemic assistance as a ‘day one’ priority after Senate confirms him
“I don’t want that job to be a sound bite but … you could see that when you’re starting to go down paths that are not based on any science at all, and we’ve been there before, I don’t want to rehash it, that is not helpful at all,” Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told CNN in an interview.
Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin, whom the Senate confirmed on Friday, made pandemic assistance his first priority to address the mounting loss of life.
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“What we saw a lot of was saying, ‘OK, states, do what you want to do,’ and states were doing things that clearly were not the right direction,” Fauci said.
Many US states, he added, “want to have the capability of making their own decisions, but they also need resources, and they need help”.
