Dr. Fauci just tore apart a crazy coronavirus strategy the White House actually embraced

[Andy Meek]

• White House health advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci has pushed back strongly against the herd immunity strategy that some White House officials have flirted with as a means of fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Basically, herd immunity calls for letting the coronavirus rip through a population and exposing young, healthy people to it so that everyone can learn to live with the virus.
• Fauci called this strategy "nonsense" and potentially dangerous as it would lead to a significant increase in death.

Stronger, pointed language is starting to be the norm from White House health advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci, as is stepped-up criticism of the doctor from President Trump -- who's taken to openly berating the venerable director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. In fact, President Trump's unproductive haranguing of Dr. Fauci took a particularly weird turn on Monday, when the president tweeted that he wants Fauci to "make better decisions" and that, besides, the doctor also has a "bad arm!" in reference to the ceremonial opening pitch of the 2020 baseball season that Fauci threw earlier this year. Moreover, Trump derided Fauci as a "disaster" in a call with campaign officials that he allowed reporters to listen in on.

Meantime, Fauci is arguably dropping the diplomatic pretense a bit more than usual these days, such as in his strident criticism of the so-called herd immunity strategy for fighting COVID-19 that the White House keeps flirting with. It's an idea that Fauci says is "nonsense," "dangerous," and would lead to a significant number of deaths.

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