How soon does he get fired?
https://www.businessinsider.com/fauci-says-cant-deny-us-has-worst-covid-19-outbreak-2020-8
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top expert on infectious disease, on Wednesday was unequivocal that the US coronavirus outbreak is the worst in the world.
"We're not quite 5% of the world's population, yet represent 20-25% of the world's infections ... I mean, that has to be the worst. Is it not the worst?" CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta asked Fauci during an interview.
"Yeah, it is quantitatively if you look at it, it is. I mean the numbers don't lie,"
Fauci said.
His words directly undercut the misleading and rosy picture President Donald Trump has sought to paint around the COVID-19 outbreak in the US, which is part of a broader effort to downplay his administration's failures in responding to the pandemic.
"Every country has suffered. We, the United States, has suffered ... as much or worse than anyone," Fauci said on Wednesday. "I mean when you look at the number of infections and the number of deaths, it really is quite concerning."
"Any demographic group that's not seriously trying to get to the endgame of suppressing this, it will continue to smolder and smolder and smolder," Fauci said.
As of Wednesday, there were over 4.7 million reported cases of COVID-19 in the US, and nearly 158,000 deaths, per the latest data from Johns Hopkins. No other country in the world has higher numbers.
Fauci's comments on Wednesday stood in stark contrast to Trump's recent rhetoric on the US outbreak.