WASHINGTON, D.C. – Dr. Anthony Fauci says he can't jump in front of the microphone to stop President Donald Trump from speaking at daily White House briefings on the coronavirus outbreak.
The nation's top infectious disease expert tells Science magazine in an interview that Trump listens “even though we disagree on some things.” “He goes his own way.
He has his own style,” Fauci, the longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in the telephone interview with the magazine on Sunday. “But on substantive issues, he does listen to what I say.” Trump complained at a recent briefing that China should have told the world about the virus much earlier.