Fauci says task force 'argued strongly' with Trump to extend coronavirus guidelines
Source: The Hill
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government's top infectious disease expert, said Monday that the White House coronavirus task force aggressively lobbied President Trump to extend social distancing guidelines another month as the U.S. grapples with the fallout of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
"We felt that if we prematurely pulled back, we would only form an acceleration or rebound of something, which would put you behind where you were before, and that’s a reason why we argued strongly with the president that he not withdraw those guidelines," Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said on CNN's "New Day."
"And he did listen," Fauci added.
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"When you look at the kinetics of the outbreak, the patterns that are going on now, even as we speak, they were not going to reach a peak and turnaround the way we wanted to, within the time frame originally estimated," he said, adding that he and Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus task force coordinator, showed these models to Trump on Sunday at the Oval Office.
"He looked at them, he understood them, and he shook his head and said, 'I guess we got to do it,'" Fauci continued.
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