Fauci offers support for Trump, saying he backed social distancing after first recommendation
By Morgan Chalfant - 04/13/20 06:15 PM EDT
Dr. Anthony Fauci on Monday sought to squash any notion of a fissure between he and President Trump, saying at the opening of a coronavirus task force briefing that the president repeatedly and immediately backed social distancing recommendation from he and other public health officials despite the economic pain.
“The president listened to the recommendation and went to the mitigation,†Fauci told reporters in the White House briefing room on Monday evening.
Fauci was seeking to clarify remarks he made a day prior in an interview with CNN when he acknowledged that more lives could have been saved if the federal government had moved forward with social distancing guidelines earlier than mid-March.
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