Dr. Anthony Fauci, a member of the White House’s coronavirus task force, says President Donald Trump has taken the outbreak seriously “from the beginning.”
Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, made his comments during a Thursday interview on “The Daily,” a podcast from The New York Times.
“The president has his own style,” he said. “That’s obvious to the American public. When I speak to him about issues that are substantive, he listens.
“I think he always understood the seriousness of it. Right now, as the numbers are becoming crystal clear, he himself is articulating an awareness of that seriousness."
“But from the beginning, he always took it seriously.”
In an interview Thursday on “CBS This Morning” Fauci said Americans must anticipate that there could be between 100,000 to 240,000 deaths from coronavirus, but “we shouldn't give up and accept it.”
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