‘There was a lot of push back about shutting down.’ Fauci said Trump could have saved more US lives

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‘There was a lot of push back about shutting things down.’ Anthony Fauci insisted Donald Trump could have saved more American lives if he put the U.S. on lockdown sooner

  • The nation’s top immunologist Anthony Fauci said Sunday morning that more lives could have been saved if Donald Trump lock downed the nation sooner
  • ‘There was a lot of pushback about shutting things down back then,’ Fauci said
  • Trump put out guidelines for social distancing and put the country on lockdown in mid-March 
  • There are reports that Trump, however, knew about the threat of coronavirus long before he shut down the country
  • Learn more about how to help people impacted by COVID

By Katelyn Caralle, U.s. Political Reporter For Dailymail.com

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Anthony Fauci suggested Sunday morning that more lives could have been saved if Donald Trump had initiated a coronavirus shut down earlier than mid-March.

The government’s top immunologist said more could have been done that would have potentially slowed the spread and lessened the ramifications of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S.

‘Obviously you could logically say that if you had a process that was ongoing and you started mitigation earlier you could’ve saved lives, obviously,’ Fauci told CNN’s State of the Union Sunday morning.

‘No-one is going to deny that,’ he continued, but added ‘there was a lot of pushback about shutting things down back then.’

Anthony Fauci said Sunday morning that Donald Trump could have saved more American lives if he had shut down the country sooner

'There was a lot of pushback about shutting things down back then,' Fauci told CNN

‘There was a lot of pushback about shutting things down back then,’ Fauci told CNN

There are several reports that intelligence reports given to the White House indicated the president knew about the threat of coronavirus sooner than he let on.

‘You know, Jake, as I have said many times, we look at it from a pure health standpoint,’ Fauci told CNN’s Jake Tapper. ‘We make a recommendation. Often, the recommendation is taken. Sometimes, it’s not.’

‘But it is what it is,’ he continued. ‘We are where we are right now.’

So far more than 20,000 people died in the U.S. after contracting coronavirus and there are more than 530,000 cases as of Sunday morning.