President Donald Trump has downplayed the crisis. But the nation's leading expert on infectious disease warned lawmakers that the worst is yet to come.
On Wednesday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, did not mince words.“Yes it is,” Fauci answered. “I can say we will see more cases and things will get worse than they are right now. How much worse they’ll get will depend on our ability to do two things: to contain the influx of people who are infected coming from the outside and the ability to contain and mitigate within our own country.
Rep. Stephen Lynch slammed health officials for not speaking up to correct Trump’s false statements, like when he told reporters last week that “anybody who wants a test gets a test.” Officials later acknowledged a test shortage. Fauci said he has never strayed from the science or held back from telling the White House what is happening from a public health standpoint.
Rep. Gerry Connolly called out Republicans for saying “sanctimoniously” that they didn’t want to politicize the issue and pointed out the president’s efforts to cut public health funding, false assertions about the development of crisis and focus on the stock market rather than people affected.
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