Fauci disagrees with Trump that US rounding ‘final turn’ on pandemic

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Anthony Fauci on Friday said he disagrees with President Trump that the country has rounded “the final turn” on the COVID-19 pandemic, and warned Americans not to get complacent heading into the fall.

Fauci, the federal government’s leading infectious disease expert, was responding to comments made by Trump during a press conference on Thursday, where he defended his comments made to Bob Woodward about deliberately downplaying the severity of the pandemic. 

Trump said the U.S. was “rounding the final turn. And we’re going to have vaccines very soon, maybe much sooner than you think.” Continue reading.