During an appearance on CNN, Collins was shown images of a largely maskless crowd at a rally for President Trump in Michigan. In addition to continuing to hold the kinds of rallies health officials have warned against, the president has shed his briefly more pronounced advocacy for masks. While the health officials around Trump have generally tried to square their very different advice with Trump’s and have insisted there is little discord inside the administration, sometimes their words and actions suggest otherwise. Fauci has even criticized the media for this, despite obviously differing with Trump on a number of occasions. But on stuff like whether Trump should hold rallies full of maskless people, it’s been evident how these health officials have felt about it for a while.

Source: Washington Post September 11, 2020 18:11 UTC