Dr. Anthony Fauci, former top medical adviser to President Trump during the COVID-19 pandemic, stated that Trump got the idea to promote hydroxychloroquine from Fox News host Laura Ingraham. In an MSNBC interview, Fauci said, “I believe he wanted so badly for this to go away the way influenza goes away… then we had to have these miracle cures like hydroxychloroquine, which he got from Laura Ingraham on Fox News.” Fauci’s comments were first reported by Mediaite.
During the pandemic, Trump promoted hydroxychloroquine as a potential “cure” despite medical warnings about its unproven efficacy and potential side effects. A French study published earlier this year found that nearly 17,000 people across six countries might have died after taking hydroxychloroquine during the first wave of the pandemic.
Following Fauci’s remarks, Ingraham hosted Dr. Scott Atlas, who criticized Fauci. Atlas called Fauci’s tenure “the biggest failure, the most immoral disaster of public health fiasco in history” and accused him of destroying trust in science and public health guidance.
Fauci has been a frequent target of right-wing criticism and has attributed the death threats he receives to these critics.
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