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USA TODAY: The denier-in-chief has left the White House
With Donald Trump gone and Joe Biden in office, Covid-19 and the climate crisis can be tackled scientifically
If there were any lingering doubts about the undermining of science as the Covid-19 crisis erupted last year, Dr Anthony Fauci has horror stories to prove otherwise. In a series of recent interviews, most notably with The New York Times, the US’s leading infectious disease expert revealed how his informed advice for grappling with a growing pandemic was all but dismissed by a White House flirting with denialism.
“We would say things like, ‘This is an outbreak. Infectious diseases run their own course unless one does something to intervene,’” Fauci recalled. “[President Donald Trump] would get up and start talking about, ‘It’s going to go away, it’s magical, it’s going to disappear.’”..
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