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Fauci Has the Nerve to Blame Trump for Exacerbating COVID

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Disgraced former National Institutes of Health Director Anthony Fauci admitted that he made life hell for those who refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine— that he made millions of dollars from. 

In a newly published paper in the Clinical Infectious Diseases journal, Fauci, co-authored by researcher Gregory Folkers, blamed President-elect Donald Trump for his handling of the COVID pandemic— and criticized him for promoting “unproven” and “potentially dangerous” treatments to treat the virus. 

President Donald Trump frequently minimized the seriousness of the pandemic, repeatedly claiming that COVID-19 would just “go away.” In the first full year of the pandemic (2020, the last year of his presidency), he failed to use his bully pulpit to encourage people to use available “low-tech” tools such as masks/respirators, better ventilation, and physical distancing to reduce the risk of infection. Trump also gave credence to unproven and potentially dangerous substances for COVID-19 prevention and treatment, such as bleach injections, the antimalarial hydroxychloroquine, and the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin. 

Many of his hundreds of communications during the COVID-19 pandemic were missed opportunities for political leadership in promoting policies and practices to mitigate the impact of a raging pandemic. 

However, credible fact-checkers dismissed claims that the aftermath of the virus outbreak was due to Trump’s policies. 

Politifact called outgoing President Joe Biden’s accusations about Trump’s involvement in the pandemic “mostly false.” 

Meanwhile, Trump’s pick to lead the NIH, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, has been publicly critical of Fauci, publishing the October 2020 “Great Barrington Declaration,”—an open letter that argued against lockdowns and promoted herd immunity. He also accused Fauci of diminishing the number of those who opposed lockdown measures. 

“[Fauci] created an illusion of scientific consensus around their ideas and marginalized anyone that disagreed with them even though there wasn't a scientific consensus," Bhattacharya said last year. “It's a pattern of behavior that reflects an abuse of power by American scientific bureaucrats at the very top of our scientific bureaucracies."

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