Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said Thursday he was troubled by the rise in “anti-science” beliefs throughout the country, saying such ill-founded sentiments could be “a problem” as the nation seeks to move past the coronavirus pandemic. Trump himself has pushed back against science and regularly speculated, without evidence, that the virus will go away on its own. “If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases,” Trump claimed this week, despite data that shows several states are seeing new record highs for daily diagnoses. It’s unclear if any health experts told Trump it was safe to hold the event, which is expected to draw about 20,000 people. Fauci touted efforts across the United States to develop a vaccine for the coronavirus during the interview this week, noting it was “overwhelmingly” the quickest such work had ever been done.

Source: Huffington Post June 19, 2020 04:52 UTC