Vita huset stoppar Fauci från att vittna i kongressen
Smittskyddschefen Anthony Fauci kommer inte att tillåtas vittna om USA:s hantering av coronakrisen i kongressen nästa vecka. Vita huset har stoppat hans medverkan, enligt amerikanska medier.
Trumpadministrationen skriver i ett uttalande att det vore kontraproduktivt att låta en av dem som ska leda USA ur krisen vittna, mitt under pandemin.
”Vi vill samarbeta med kongressen för att hitta en annan tidpunkt”, uppger Trumpadministrationen.
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Anthony Fauci
Wikipedia (en)
Anthony Stephen Fauci ( ; born December 24, 1940) is an American physician and immunologist who has served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1984. Since January 2020, he has been one of the lead members of the Trump Administration's White House Coronavirus Task Force addressing the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in the United States. Fauci is widely seen to be one of the most trusted medical figures in the country.Fauci is widely recognized as one of the world's leading experts on infectious diseases. As a physician with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Fauci has served American public health in various capacities for over 50 years, and has been an advisor to every U.S. president since Ronald Reagan. He has made contributions to HIV/AIDS research and other immunodeficiencies, both as a scientist and as the head of the NIAID at the NIH.
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