Dr Fauci Archives - Daily Concord https://dailyconcord.com/tag/dr-fauci/ The Concord of African Journalism Tue, 14 Jul 2020 17:55:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 https://dailyconcord.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/cropped-DailyConcordIcon-32x32.png Dr Fauci Archives - Daily Concord https://dailyconcord.com/tag/dr-fauci/ 32 32 Dr Fauci – White House targets US disease chief Over Coronavirus https://dailyconcord.com/dr-fauci-white-house-targets-us-disease-chief-over-coronavirus/ Tue, 14 Jul 2020 17:55:45 +0000 https://dailyconcord.com/?p=14859 Dr Fauci – US infectious disease chief Dr Anthony Fauci is being targeted by the

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Dr Fauci – US infectious disease chief Dr Anthony Fauci is being targeted by the Trump administration as tensions rise between the health expert and the president.

The White House has been increasingly critical of Dr Fauci, and on Sunday, an official shared a list detailing past apparent erroneous comments.

Dr Fauci changing advice on masks and remarks on Covid-19’s severity are among the points from the White House.

The move to undercut him comes as the US continues to see surges in Covid-19.

There are over 3.3 million cases confirmed and more than 135,000 deaths nationwide, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Dr Fauci has contradicted President Donald Trump’s comments on the pandemic a number of times, pushing back on the president’s claims that the outbreak is improving and attributing hasty state reopenings to the recent surges.

The White House memo leaked over the weekend had noted “several White House officials are concerned about the number of times Dr Fauci has been wrong on things”.

Though the White House said Dr Fauci and Mr Trump have a “good working relationship” on Monday, Trump adviser Peter Navarro told CBS News: “When you ask me if I listen to Dr Fauci’s advice, my answer is only with caution.”

During a law enforcement event at the White House on Monday, Mr Trump said: “I have a very good relationship with Dr Fauci. I’ve had for a long time – right from the beginning.

“I find him to be a very nice person. I don’t always agree with him.”

The president added: “I get along with him very well. I like him personally.”

Mr Trump earlier on Monday retweeted comments from a game show host accusing “everyone”, including the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), of lying about the coronavirus.

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White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany later told reporters Mr Trump still had confidence in the CDC and the tweet was meant to express his displeasure with “some rogue individuals” who leaked planning documents.

Echoing the contents of the anti-Fauci memo earlier, Mr Navarro, an economic adviser to Mr Trump, said Dr Fauci “has been wrong about everything I have ever interacted with him on”.

“When I warned in late January in a memo of a possibly deadly pandemic, Fauci was telling the media not to worry,” he said.

Mr Navarro said Dr Fauci fought against Mr Trump’s “courageous decision” to halt flights from China, initially said the virus was “low-risk” and “flip-flopped on the use of masks”.

“Now Fauci is saying that a falling mortality rate doesn’t matter when it is the single most important statistic to help guide the pace of our economic reopening.”

Admiral Brett Giroir, assistant US health secretary and member of the virus task force, told NBC News on Sunday that while he respects Dr Fauci, he is not always right.

“Dr Fauci is not 100% right and he also doesn’t necessarily, he admits that, have the whole national interest in mind. He looks at it from a very narrow public health point of view.”

As cases and deaths continue to rise in a number of states, Mr Trump has been accused by critics of politicising health issues, including wearing masks.

Mr Trump has also clashed with the World Health Organization (WHO), accusing the body of mismanaging the pandemic when it began and failing to make “greatly needed reforms”.

On 7 July, he formally began to pull the US out of the WHO and said funding would be redirected.

Source – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/

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Bill Gates, Dr Fauci, Wuhan virus, the common denominator? https://dailyconcord.com/bill-gates-dr-fauci-wuhan-virus-the-common-denominator/ Mon, 04 May 2020 20:39:31 +0000 https://dailyconcord.com/?p=14776 Bill Gates – We have always lived at the mercy of the microbial world. The

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Bill Gates – We have always lived at the mercy of the microbial world. The luxury of hindsight can afford us the conclusion that the lethal damage it had in the past, for example, the Justinian plague, the Black Death and the Spanish flu were due to ignorance. The victims and the authorities lacked knowledge of the disease. Besides, how they started and got transmitted was a mystery to them. Currently, pathology either identify them as virus or bacteria.

When you plough through some of the contemporary literature it’s incredible how they rationalise the nature and causes of the pandemics. Ignorance is what supressed human population growth until the 20th century when biological sciences, in concert with technology, opened the sluice gates. About three centuries ago half of children born in London never saw their fifth birthday because of infant diseases. And this accounted for some of the reasons why population growth was stifled.

I918 was the last serious pandemic that took out the lives of tens of millions. By 1956 when the Asian Flu started, WHO was tweaking its operational structures. Since then, the world has been spared of any serious outbreaks until the mid-80s AIDS, which had severe toll on people with compromised immune systems. The 2002 SARS outbreak was when WHO found its feet. A battery of measures had been deployed to deal with pandemics and it kicked in during the 2002 SARS outbreak. By 2009 the system had been perfected and H1N1, 2012 MERS and 2014 Ebola were brought under control in a short order.

The viruses of the past have not disappeared, it’s been contained by good sanitation, better diet and good healthcare – the fundamental to all of these is knowledge. We are still bombarded by countless bacteria and viruses every day, but our immune system, forever on a warpath, protect and keeps us safe. Cholera outbreaks are still common in places with poor sanitation. On the other hand, hardly do we hear similar problems in the West.

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So, the current Wuhan virus global pandemic shouldn’t have happened based on the structures the international community has put in place. WHO is a de facto insurance policy for the 194 member states against communicable diseases. Member states and various organisations and philanthropists don’t contribute for the sheer beauty of it. Due to the interconnected nature of the globe it is an extremely very important organ of the UN. In other words, they are like an immune system that swings into combat mode whenever a pathogenic insurgency occurs anywhere around the globe. The question is why did WHO not fight?

Was the world’s immunes system compromised by Chinese Communist Party? They claimed they were told by the Chinese that the Wuhan virus was not human to human transferable. Any smart investigator will query whether they ascertained its veracity before communicating that false information to the rest of the world, which they didn’t. While the information was given to them on their blind side, they should have added a caveat to what they passed on to the rest of the world.

Source – https://www.ghanaweb.com

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