It’s been documented several times that in late January and into February that Dr. Anthony Fauci said that Americans did not need to worry about the coronavirus and that malls and cruise ships would be just fine.
However, during an appearance on MSNBC Fauci told a very different story.
During an interview with Rev. Al Sharpton, Fauci claims that he told the President that “we were in real trouble” in mid to late January and that Trump’s travel bans were too late to be effective.
What!? That is the exact opposite of what Fauci has said the past few weeks.
On Sunday (the same day he appeared with Rev. Al Sharpton) Fauci was confronted over his earlier comments claiming Americans were safe on Fox News…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 12, 2020
The above interview is going to come back to haunt him because that is not what he told Rev. Sharpton. Below is a transcript of what he told Sharpton in full context.
Sharpton: “Let me ask you uh, uh this. When did it occur to you in, in your capacity that this was, uh, a problem that would reach pandemic proportions? We had all kind of reports about when, uh, Washington was notified, the Congress, the White House, when did it occur to you that we were in real danger here?”
Fauci: “You know it occurred, well there was always this thought that there was some danger. But when we got to the point where it was clear that some of the misinformation that we initially got from China–because remember, their first cases were reported at the very end of December, December 31st. They said it was something like 24 cases in this wet market where these exotic animals are sold and there’s a human-animal interface. And, and The proposal that was made by the authorities in China where this was just jumping from an animal to a human, and it wasn’t spread from human-to-human. Then it became clear when you look back that it was likely in China that there was human-to-human spread. By the time we got that information and we started getting cases here, it was, ‘well, it’s not efficiently spread from human-to-human.’ But as soon as it became clear that there was community spread, which means that it isn’t just a travel-related case, that there are cases that are in the community under the radar screen, then it became clear that we were in real trouble.”
Sharpton: “When was that? Around when was that?”
Fauci: “Well, that was probably towards the middle to end of January.”
Sharpton: “Okay. And, and what did you begin advising the administration and those authorities that we were in fact seeing something different here and this could be a major problem at that time?”
Fauci: “You bet. And then, then that’s when it became clear that there are a couple of ways of addressing that. You could either prevent or try to block the influx of new cases from out of the country, and already cases had come in from China, to try and say, ‘That’s it, we got to stop that because now we already have cases here.’ And then it switched to Europe. And when Italy had their outbreak, it became clear that that became a danger. So that’s when cases were cut off from coming in from Europe and then ultimately the U.K. But by that time we had enough cases in our own country that the ability to do the containment slipped then into the need for mitigation and we saw what happened in New York.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci and I discuss when he first found out about coronavirus, matching the proper resources with those w/ higher risks, and more. #PoliticsNation pic.twitter.com/6Qo5eKn0ai
— Reverend Al Sharpton (@TheRevAl) April 12, 2020
Dr. Fauci explains why Trump’s travel bans didn’t work — and he was begging action as early as mid-Januaryhttps://t.co/9OvoEXDTE9#PoliticsNation
— Reverend Al Sharpton (@TheRevAl) April 13, 2020
Beware…Fauci is a deep state backstabber.
