The vice president tried to project a measure of reassurance in his remarks regarding the coronavirus outbreak. That included praising scientific consensus instead of maligning it.
WASHINGTON — Even as some of President Trump’s allies have continued to describe the coronavirus as a mild threat that has been exaggerated by the president’s political enemies, officials leading the charge against the respiratory disease — which has so far killed six Americans — insisted that they would continue to be guided by science.
The president’s critics have long branded him as hostile to expertise of the very kind Birx and Fauci possess. Last year, the Union of Concerned Scientists, a progressive group, criticized him for “a pervasive pattern of sidelining science in critical decision making,” in particular when it came to the consensus about human activity causing climate change.
“He starts talking about this hoax,” Limbaugh said of his conversation with Trump. “He starts talking about this versus the flu and the number of cases and the mortality rate. He’s on top of this. He knows exactly, folks, what they are trying and what they’re doing. He was insistent to me that they are not going to join the panic on the task force — or himself personally — in reporting this.”
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