Trump Attacks Fauci Over Best COVID-19 Treatment

By Dorothy Mills-Gregg / July 28, 2020 at 2:19 PM
A couple days after National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci said he probably wouldn’t join White House pandemic briefings again, President Donald Trump retweeted a podcast Monday (July 27) criticizing Fauci for supporting remdesivir over hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19. Trump has repeatedly supported using hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 patients, but last month FDA revoked the drug’s emergency use authorization for COVID-19 treatment . Fauci told The Washington Post Friday (July 24) in an online forum...

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