根据报道,一名白宫官员告诉NBC,“数名白宫官员正在盘算福奇犯错的次数”。
A White House official told NBC News that “several White House officials are concerned about the number of times Dr。 Fauci has been wrong on things。”
这名官员还提供一份很长的福奇在疫情早期发表的言论清单,包括其在一月份说过的“这不是一个大的威胁”和三月份说过的“人们在外出散步时不需要戴口罩”等。
The official provided NBC News with a lengthy list of past comments by Fauci earlier in the pandemic, including Fauci saying in January that coronavirus was “not a major threat” and “not driven by asymptomatic carriers” and Fauci’s comment in March that “people should not be walking around with masks。
据《华盛顿邮报》报道,福奇的支持者承认这些早期的错误言论,与其他几位公共卫生官员一样,他起初曾说过公共场合不应该戴口罩,但如今却在强烈推荐人们戴口罩,特别是当个人无法保持必要的社交距离时。
值得一提的是,上周末特朗普在马里兰州一家军方医疗机构看望伤兵和一线医护人员时,才首次公开佩戴口罩。
对于福奇最开始的一些误判,NBC在报道中解释称,随着医生和科学家们对新冠病毒的了解越来越多,医学界对于如何治疗和限制传播的共识也在逐渐进化,这种情况不只是在美国。
As physicians and scientists have learned more about the coronavirus, the medical consensus on how to treat it and limit its spread has evolved — and not just in the US。
这名白宫官员对福奇的许多说法提出了质疑。可福奇当时的言论是基于早期最可靠的数据得出的,而且也得到了特朗普、特别工作组的其他成员和白宫高级官员的广泛响应。
Many of Fauci‘s assertions called into question by the White House official were based on the best available data at the time and were widely echoed by Trump, other members of the task force and senior White House officials。
NBC在报道中还表示,近期福奇与特朗普在诸多观点上意见相左,包括美国的抗疫表现、一些州重新开放的决定以及放宽限制的标准等等。
例如,上周福奇在接受采访时就明确表示“作为一个国家,与其他国家相比,我不认为你可以说我们正做得很好。我意思是,我们不是。”
“As a country, when you compare us to other countries, I don’t think you can say we’re doing great。 I mean, we’re just not。”
而这与特朗普时常挂在嘴边的“doing great”说法,直接相悖。
而在6月30日,福奇还说过,若目前的趋势无法扭转,如果未来每日新增确诊病例数达到10万,他也“不会感到惊讶”。 美国网友:为福奇而战!
NBC这一报道发出后,美国网友立即不干了,纷纷发声力挺福奇,并把他挺上了热搜!