White House Outraged Over Expert Fauci’s COVID-19 Warnings

By Stefan J. Bos, Special Correspondent Worthy News

(Worthy News) – The White House says leading infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci is playing politics with the coronavirus pandemic after warning that the United States was in for a “whole lot of hurt.”

Spokesman Judd Deere said Fauci’s comments to The Washington Post newspaper ahead of the November 3 presidential elections were “unacceptable and breaking with all norms.”

“As a member of the [US Coronavirus] Task Force, Dr. Fauci has a duty to express concerns or push for a change in strategy,” he noted.

“But he’s not done that, instead choosing to criticize the president in the media and make his political leanings known by praising the president’s opponent,” Deere added in a statement.

Fauci told The Washington Post that the White House’s pandemic response had left the nation in a dangerous position as cold weather forces more people indoors. “We’re in for a whole lot of hurt. It’s not a good situation,” Fauci said in the interview published Saturday.

STARS WRONG

“All the stars are aligned in the wrong place as you go into the fall and winter season, with people congregating at home indoors. You could not possibly be positioned more poorly,” Fauci claimed.

Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the White House’s coronavirus taskforce, said President Donald Trump is looking at the pandemic from a perspective focused on “the economy and reopening the country.”

However, he stressed that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden “is taking it seriously from a public health perspective.”

According to data collated by Johns Hopkins University, deaths in the U.S. have now passed 230,000, while more than nine million cases have been registered.

Trump and other administration officials have made clear that most of those who died were older people with underlying medical conditions.

MORE DEATHS

The president said the number of deaths could have been two million higher had he not imposed a travel on China, a move his Democratic challenger Joe Biden initially called “xenophobic.”

Trump has also linked the high number of reported infections to increased testing.

Coronavirus has been a central issue in the run-up to Tuesday’s presidential ballot. Biden, who spent much of his campaign in a basement at home, has called the president’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic an “insult” to its victims.

The Democratic candidate – who has not ruled out further lockdowns – pledged to “let science drive our decisions” if he is elected.

‘BASEMENT JOE’

Biden largely stayed off the campaign trail earlier this year, claiming it was to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

He conducted most media interviews and virtual events remotely from his home in Delaware then, earning him the nickname ‘Basement Joe.’

He did make some in-person appearances, such as at a wreath-laying ceremony at a veteran’s memorial near his home in May.

At a rally in Goodyear, Arizona, Trump warned that a Biden presidency would lead to more lockdowns and economic misery for Americans.

“If you vote for Joe Biden, it means no kids in school, no graduations, no weddings, no thanksgivings, no Christmas, and no Fourth of July together. Other than that, you’ll have a wonderful life. Can’t see anybody, but that’s alright,” he said.

He cast the election as “a choice between a Trump super-recovery and a Biden depression.” Biden observed COVID-19 protocols at events ahead of the vote, while Trump was staging massive campaign rallies often without social distancing measures.

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