Fauci 'trying to figure out' where Trump got false claim that 99% of Covid-19 cases are 'harmless'

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, tells the Financial Times he's 'trying to figure out' where President Trump got the number behind his claim that 99% of coronavirus cases were 'harmless.'

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Schools should consider ways to stay open even as Covid-19 spreads, pediatric doctors writePre-school students attend summer school sessions at Happy Day School in Monterey Park, California, on July 9. Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images

“Almost 6 months into the pandemic, accumulating evidence and collective experience argue that children, particularly school-aged children, are far less important drivers of SARSCoV-2 transmission than adults,” write Drs. Benjamin Lee and William Raszka Jr. of the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont.

In that study, researchers from the University of Geneva in Switzerland found that, among 39 households where children became ill with Covid-19, children were believed to be the first case in only three households. In the 36 other households, the child developed symptoms after or at the same time as an adult in the home, “suggesting that the child was not the source of infection and that children most frequently acquire COVID-19 from adults, rather than transmitting it to them.

Schools, Lee and Raszka write, “may be less important in community transmission than initially feared.”

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Why aren’t you reporting this?

FAUCI RULES, trump drools!

dmrider Why is he wasting his time? Everything Trump says is false and one can spend all day and every day trying to figure out where his facts come from.

From the SAME guy who sold magic beans

Umm from the CDC’s own fucking numbers. We can do math, well those of us who are smart enough to see what’s happening.

Only 99%? He's lost my vote the stupid pox. I demand 100%

JodeneRdc tRUMP pulled it straight outta his ass, where does tRUMP get all his 'facts & figures'

I’m thinking Dump was singing 99 bottles of pepto during the briefing and the number just stuck.

Why did Fauci tell us not to wear masks?

Any friend of Bill Gates is a friend of mine.

Probably out his ass like where he gets most of his information.

Official answer: Mortality rate is 4%. CDC says real of infected is 10 times higher which brings true mortality rate to 0.4%. ~1/4 of hospitalized COVID died. So hospit. rate of all infected is 1.6%, meaning 88.4% infected do not need medical care. Blame CDC if you disagree

He probably misspoke, meant to say 99% of white people.

I feel for this guy !

HE PULLED THE NUMBER OUT OFF HIS ASS LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE

It's on this chart. Just scroll down a little to active cases. It says 99% are mild.

Fire Fauci/Brix

We should all just get this virus, so we can be done with it already and move on to the next one

Harmless 130,000 deaths so far. We know he lies and just says any number out of his head!

I hope the doc quits. He deserves better, us he can help the country more by being all over tv speaking to the people. I mean 35% approve of trump and 73% approve of fauci. Less orange idiot, more doctors.

This is in fact the biggest world hoax ever. There were ulterior motives for this 'pandemic' that never was. From fake chinese videos in the beginning of people seizing and dying like roaches sprayed with Raid...to dancing TikTok nurses...it was all a sham and continues to be.

He pulled it out of his...well...you know. Thank you Dr Fauci for being a part of the solution.

Trump got the data directly from his stable genius box he keeps under his tanning bed

Don't worry DR. ... IT'S ALL LIES AND FALSEHOODS !!!!!!!

Everyone who isn't a Trump puppet are fighting two fronts at CDC. The pandemic and Trump’s influence.

Smarter than the Generals. Now smarter than the doctors. Truly a Stable Genius.

He pulled it out of his butt. Just lies.

The POTUS may have been a doctor 💉 in his 1st life. Who knows...?

He got it from the academic journal of dumbf*cks

Maybe just a guess , is that the death rate is now under 1%?

He thought it up all by his self

I like Fauci. But when there was 118K dead in 2.1 million cases and now 133K in 3.1 million cases? That's 1.5% in last million cases. That's where Trump is looking. But he's still a racist prick and vote him out. I do expect death rate to increase in next two to four weeks.

Figure it out? Hell, he just made it up. It’s what he does ALL the time.

Fauci is in bed with China and the Democrats.

And please try to figure out why so many times you have been wrong on telling us what to do from the beginning

Dr falcchii lire about WHO. LIED about fave masks. He is over playing this virus. CNN is garbage

This is our reality

Like a lot of things he pulled it out of his ass...

Out of his ass. Just like his 96% approval with republicans

I believe Dr. Fauci knows that if he just says 'President Trump is wrong on that' he'll be fired. He knows that if he's fired The American people will not be truthfully informed about COVID-19.

I suggest he consult with a proctologist

He made it up in his warped little mind.

I would love if he just said he’s just making st up.

EnemyOfThePeople CreepyTrump DumpTrump WorstPresidentInHistory BlackLivesMatter VoteBiden WearADamnMask LieDenyCry (Trump motto)

Trump pulled the number out of his ass. I doubt Dr Fauci is going to search in there, so he might as well save his energy.

Fauci - just following Bill Gates orders to make Trump look bad --- we are on to you Tony ( a stooge of the left)

The figures are in his head. Fauci will never find them...

He pulled it from his ass like he does everything else

Fox News would be my first guess, made it up would be my second.

CV has a 99.965 survival rate

As usual trump is 99% wrong and lying

TrumpIsNotWell

He pulled it out of his ass like most of the stats he uses. I think it was next to the 96% Republican support stat he regularly pulls out.

Imagine a virus so deadly you have to be tested to know if you even have it. 👈😜

In the meantime CNN is searching for anything that Dr. Fauci has said that has ever turned out to be correct.....

He got the information from a place he gets all his Intel, his gut.

let me save you time Dr fauci. The president is lying to the American people AGAIN.

His ass.

Just a matter of time before this wonderful man, Dr. Fauci, is removed. That will be a truly sad day.

Doctor DEEPSTATETAKEDOWN Liar.

He probably pulled it out of his ass!! FFS

But what was the number?

Survival rate is 99,6%.

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