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International clinical trials published on Wednesday confirmed the hope that cheap, widely available steroid drugs can help seriously ill patients survive Covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus.

Following release of the new data, the World Health Organization on Wednesday strongly recommended steroids for treatment of patients with severe or critical Covid-19 worldwide. But the agency recommended against giving the drugs to patients with mild disease.

The new studies include an analysis that pooled data from seven randomized clinical trials evaluating three steroids in over 1,700 patients. The study concluded that each of the three drugs reduced the risk of death.

That paper and three related studies were published in the journal JAMA, along with an editorial describing the research as an “important step forward in the treatment of patients with Covid-19.”

Corticosteroids should now be the first-line treatment for critically ill patients, the authors added. The only other drug shown to be effective in seriously ill patients, and only modestly at that, is remdesivir.

Steroids like dexamethasone, hydrocortisone and methylprednisolone are often used by doctors to tamp down the body’s immune system, alleviating inflammation, swelling and pain. Many Covid-19 patients die not of the virus, but of the body’s overreaction to the infection.

The analysis of pooled data found that steroids were linked with a one-third reduction in deaths among Covid-19 patients. Dexamethasone produced the strongest results: a 36 percent drop in deaths in 1,282 patients treated in three separate trials.

In June, researchers at Oxford University discovered that dexamethasone seemed to improve survival rates in severely ill patients. Researchers had hoped that other inexpensive steroids might help these patients.

Taken together, the new studies will bolster confidence in the use of steroids and address any lingering hesitancy on the part of some physicians, said Dr. Todd Rice, an associate professor of medicine and critical care physician at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

“This shows us steroids are clearly beneficial in this population and should clearly be given, unless you absolutely can’t for some reason, which needs to be a pretty rare occasion,” he said.

Dr. Scott W. Atlas has argued that the science of mask wearing is uncertain, that children cannot pass on the coronavirus and that the role of the government is not to stamp out the virus but to protect its most vulnerable citizens as Covid-19 takes its course.

Ideas like these, ideologically freighted and scientifically disputed, have propelled Dr. Atlas, a radiologist and senior fellow at Stanford University’s conservative Hoover Institution, into President Trump’s White House.

Mr. Trump has embraced Dr. Atlas even as he upsets the balance of power within the White House coronavirus task force with ideas that top government doctors and scientists find misguided — even dangerous — according to people familiar with the task force’s deliberations.

That might be the point.

“I think Trump clearly does not like the advice he was receiving from the people who are the experts — Fauci, Birx, etc. — so he has slowly shifted from their advice to somebody who tells him what he wants to hear,” said Dr. Carlos del Rio, an infectious disease expert at Emory University. He was referring to Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the country’s leading infectious disease scientist, and Dr. Deborah L. Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator.

Dr. Atlas is neither an epidemiologist nor an infectious disease expert, but his frequent appearances on Fox News and his ideological surety caught the president’s eye.

The core of his appeal in the West Wing rests in his libertarian-style approach to disease management akin to one used to disastrous effect in Sweden. The argument: Most people infected will not get seriously ill, and at some point, enough people will have antibodies to deprive the virus of carriers — “herd immunity.” His embrace of this has alienated his colleagues.

“Trying to get to herd immunity other than with a vaccine isn’t a strategy. It’s a catastrophe,” said Dr. Tom Frieden, the former C.D.C. director.

Joseph R. Biden Jr., pressing his argument that President Trump is failing the country with his handling of the coronavirus, plans on Wednesday to make the case that Mr. Trump is hurting the nation’s parents, teachers and schoolchildren with his push for schools to reopen.

Mr. Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, a community college professor, are scheduled to receive a briefing in Wilmington, Del., from a group of experts, including Sylvia Mathews Burwell, who served as secretary of health and human services for President Obama and is now the president of American University, and Linda Darling-Hammond, the president of the California State Board of Education.

Mr. Biden will then give a speech on what his campaign described as Mr. Trump’s failures on the pandemic as well as Mr. Biden’s plan to reopen schools safely.

Symone Sanders, a senior adviser for the Biden campaign, said Mr. Trump was “barreling forward trying to reopen schools because he thinks it will help his own re-election.”

“We believe this is a key contrast for voters,” Ms. Sanders said. “President Trump, who continues to ignore the science and has no plan to get the virus under control, and Joe Biden, who is working with the experts and putting together an effective plan to beat the virus and reopen schools safely.”

Mr. Trump has demanded that schools reopen this fall and threatened to cut federal funding for school districts that defied his wishes. But his effort to pressure schools did not have the effect he desired, and many districts decided to begin the school year with remote instruction.

As Iowa has faced the most new virus cases per capita of any state over the last seven days, Joni Ernst, the state’s junior senator and a Republican in a tight race for re-election, echoed a debunked conspiracy theory that coronavirus death tolls were being greatly inflated and suggested that health care providers had a financial motive to falsify cases.

Ms. Ernst said she was “so skeptical” of the government’s national statistics about virus fatalities, according to an account in The Courier newspaper of a campaign stop she made in Waterloo, a city of about 70,000.

“They’re thinking there may be 10,000 or less deaths that were actually singularly Covid-19,” Ms. Ernst said. “I’m just really curious. It would be interesting to know that.”

The confirmed death toll from the pandemic in the United States is at least 184,000, and independent analyses have said the figure is probably even higher — most likely around 200,000 — in part because some deaths connected to infection from the virus have not been recognized as such.

Ms. Ernst’s comments seemed to track a false claim spread by President Trump over the weekend. Twitter removed the president’s tweet on the subject for violating the site’s disinformation rules, because the claim is linked to the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory.

The claim inaccurately said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “quietly updated the Covid number to admit that only 6%” of the people counted in the death toll — or about 9,000 people — “actually died from Covid.”

“It’s not 9,000 deaths from Covid-19, it’s 180-plus-thousand deaths,” Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said on Tuesday.

Dr. Fauci made clear that the mere fact that a person had other health problems, or comorbidities, as well as the coronavirus does not mean that they did not die of Covid-19. He said there should “not be any confusion about that.’’

A superspreader event on a bus focuses scientists on the likelihood of airborne transmission.

In late January, as the new coronavirus was beginning to spread from China’s Hubei Province, a group of lay Buddhists traveled by bus to a temple ceremony in the city of Ningbo — hundreds of miles from Wuhan, center of the epidemic.

A passenger on one of the buses had recently dined with friends from Hubei. She apparently did not know she carried the coronavirus. Within days, 24 fellow passengers on her bus were also found to be infected.

It did not matter how far a passenger sat from the infected individual on the bus, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine on Tuesday. Even passengers in the very last row, seven behind the infected woman, caught the virus.

The incident adds to a large body of evidence indicating that the coronavirus can be transmitted by tiny particles that linger in the air, and not just through large respiratory droplets that fall quickly to the ground.

The new study “adds strong epidemiological evidence that the virus is transmitted through the air, because if it were not, we would only see cases close to the index patient — but we see it spread throughout the bus,” said Linsey Marr, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech and a leading expert on airborne viruses.

The potential for airborne transmission in close confined spaces raises concern about the winter months, when people will be spending more time indoors, Dr. Marr said. Her advice: “Avoid crowded indoor spaces where people are not wearing masks and the ventilation is poor.”

In his first public general audience since the pandemic hit, Pope Francis met a few hundred faithful on Wednesday in an imposing courtyard inside the Vatican.

Many from the cheerful crowd stood up from their socially distanced seats as Francis got out of his car, waving and filming him on their cellphones. Some talked with him from behind masks as he walked by the barriers with a large smile.

As he began speaking, Francis said that it was “beautiful” to encounter people “face to face and not screen to screen,” referring to the weekly virtual audiences from the papal library that he has been holding since March.

“The current pandemic has highlighted our interdependence,” Francis said, calling for solidarity. “We are all linked to each other, for better or for worse.”

Francis, whose papacy has been marked partly by concern for the earth, has often also urged the faithful to use the current situation to make significant changes in their lives and rediscover simpler and sustainable lifestyles. On Tuesday, he called for an examination of our energy usage, consumption, transportation and diet, and said the earth could recover “if we allow it to rest.”

He brought attention to the most vulnerable countries affected by the pandemic, which now need “regeneration packages,” and he announced a day of prayer and fasting for Lebanon, which suffered an explosion on Aug. 4 that leveled parts of the capital, killed more than 100 people and injured thousands more.

Australia falls into its first recession in almost 30 years.

After nearly three decades of economic growth, Australia officially fell into recession after its economy shrank 7 percent in the second quarter, the government said on Wednesday.

The drop in quarterly G.D.P. is the largest since record-keeping began in 1959, Michael Smedes, head of national accounts at the Australian Bureau of Statistics, said in a statement.

Restrictions that were imposed in March during the virus’s first surge greatly reduced domestic spending on transportation, hotels and restaurants, while border bans hit the tourism and education industries.

Australia’s second-most populous state, Victoria, remains under lockdown as it fights a surge that was driven by returning travelers. Officials on Wednesday extended Victoria’s state of emergency for six months, a designation that gives them broad powers to enact virus-related restrictions as needed.

In the end, more than $150 billion in stimulus packages could not ward off a recession.

“Today’s devastating numbers confirm what every Australian knows: that Covid-19 has wrecked havoc on our economy and our lives like nothing we have ever experienced before,” Josh Frydenberg, the country’s treasurer, said on Wednesday.

The new data marked a sobering end to what had once seemed an endless boom driven by immigration, rising trade with Asia and careful monetary policy. More than a million Australians were unemployed in July, and the unemployment rate of 7.5 percent was the worst in 22 years.

“The road ahead will be long,” Mr. Frydenberg said. “The road ahead will be hard. The road ahead will be bumpy.”

Australia has recorded 663 coronavirus deaths and more than 25,000 cases, according to a New York Times database.

Greece reported the first case of the coronavirus in the Moria camp for migrants on the Aegean island of Lesbos. The migration ministry said the facility would be locked down for two weeks as health inspectors tested other residents. Living conditions at the camp have been decried by human rights groups as it hosts nearly 12,000 people, four times its maximum capacity of 3,000. The patient is a 40-year-old man from Somalia who left after securing refugee status but “returned illegally to Moria and had been living in a tent outside the camp’s perimeter,” the ministry said.

In other news around the world:

As the number of new virus cases in Indonesia surges, the virus has taken a heavy toll on medical professionals. The Indonesian Medical Association said on Tuesday that 102 doctors and nine dentists had died from Covid-19, and the Indonesian National Nurses Association said 70 nurses had died. As of Wednesday, Indonesia had reported 7,505 deaths and 177,571 cases, including about 20,000 cases in the past week, according to a New York Times database. Independent experts say the actual number could be much higher because Indonesia lags behind in testing and its positivity rate is nearly 15 percent.

Direct international flights to Beijing, the capital of China, will gradually resume, the Civil Aviation Administration of China said Wednesday, as the coronavirus outbreak comes under control in the region. Flights from eight countries — Thailand, Cambodia, Pakistan, Greece, Denmark, Austria, Sweden and Canada — may fly to Beijing again, starting Thursday, the authorities said.

Hungary reported a daily record on Wednesday, with 365 new cases. The number is higher than even what it reported in April, when the pandemic was worsening in many countries. Last week, several members of the government entered quarantine after coming into contact with someone who later tested positive for the coronavirus. Hungary has barred most foreign travelers and is making returning citizens isolate themselves. It has had relatively few cases, 6,257, and just over 600 deaths, according to a New York Times database.

After mass demonstrations in Berlin last weekend against the government’s coronavirus regulations, the city decided to require masks at large protests. Now, organizers say they’re planning a large event elsewhere in Germany, but they deny that has anything to do with Berlin’s mask rule. The head of the group, Michael Ballweg, said in a radio interview Tuesday that the protests, timed for the 30th anniversary of German reunification on Oct. 3, would be at Lake Constance, in the south.

Also in Germany, the state of Saxony will allow 8,500 fans to attend the opening match that RB Leipzig will host against Mainz 05 on Sept. 20. The Bundesliga, Germany’s top league, shut down in March, but it restarted to finish the season without fans in a series of “ghost matches.” Despite federal guidelines that limit mass gatherings, RB Leipzig convinced local and state authorities that it could limit the risk of infection. The stadium, which usually holds 43,000, will only be 20 percent full; alcohol will not be sold, and masks will be required.

The pharmaceutical giant Roche, in Switzerland, announced that new antigen tests would be going on sale in several countries in Europe by the end of September. The tests are advertised as giving reliable results in 15 minutes. The company will have 40 million tests available for the launch, it said in a statement.

N.Y.C. residents can now work out at local gyms. Here’s what to expect.

Most New Yorkers have lived without communal workouts since mid-March, when the governor closed gyms across the state.

Gyms seem an intuitively high-risk environment, and New York waited until August to give the go-ahead. New York City gyms had to wait until Wednesday to reopen.

Gyms offering weights and exercise machines are allowed to reopen, with limits, but many other exercise facilities have not been approved and gym-goers must wear face coverings.

Indoor pools and places that only offer group fitness classes, like spinning, Zumba, yoga and Pilates, are not allowed to reopen because the city sees those activities as higher risk.One-on-one sessions with personal trainers or yoga teachers are allowed.

Elsewhere in the New York area:

In New York City, where indoor dining remains prohibited, the mayor said on Wednesday that he felt like the industry was owed more clarity this month on a possible timeline and set of standards for reopening. “We need to decide that in the next few weeks,” the mayor said, “whether its good news or bad news.”

As colleges reopen despite the pandemic, students, including in the New York area, must decide whether they are willing to blow the whistle on their classmates to protect against an outbreak at their schools by policing campus safety.

Reporting was contributed by Thomas Kaplan, Juliana Kim, Niki Kitsantonis, Isabella Kwai, Benjamin Novak, Richard C. Paddock, Gaia Pianigiani, Roni Caryn Rabin, Christopher F. Schuetze, Michael D. Shear, Dera Menra Sijabat, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Eileen Sullivan, Jim Tankersley, Noah Weiland and Elaine Yu.

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Fauci Says He Received Death Threats

LOS ANGELES (OnlineColumnist.com), Aug. 6, 2020.-- Complaining that he and his family have received death threats, 80-yuear-old National Institutes of Health [NIH] chief of Infectious disease Dr. Anthony Fauci said he had to hire a private security detail. Fauci told CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta that he was dumfounded by the threats for just doing his job in public health. Fauci told Gupta at a virtual conference sponsored by Harvard’s School of Public Health that the coronavirus AKA CoV-2 or Covid-19 “brings out the best of people and the worst of people,” trying to get philosophical about why he’s getting death threats. “Getting death threats for me and my family and harassing my daughters to the point where I have to get security, it’s amazing,” Fauci said acting clueless. Fauci doesn’t acknowledge that he deviated from his role to disseminate information to the public on 74-year-old President Donald Trump’s Coronavirus Task Force but became political.

CNN has interviewed Fauci numerous times, each time asking loaded question all designed to discredit Trump’s handling of the Covid-19 crisis. What’s become clear is that the media exploits Fauci to make political statements against Trump. Trump has become more aware than ever that Fauci’s no friend of the White House but instead has become a thorn in Trump’s side, disputing the president’s ideas about the numbers of active cases, death rates and existing treatments. “I wouldn’t have imagined in my wildest dreams that people who object to things that are pure public health principles are so set against it and don’t like what you and I say, namely in the world of science, that they actually threaten you,” Fauci said. Fauci knows that people aren’t upset with him about his work as a public health official, they’re upset that he’s injected himself into a heated presidential campaign.

Fauci pretends well that he’s nonpartisan but he gives interviews readily to the mainstream media, all set with the agenda of making Trump look bad. Fauci acts clueless but it’s obvious he’s working for the likes of CNN and others that want Trump to lose his reelection bid in the worst way. Fauci says he’s received “serious threats, prompting him to hire a security detail more months. He called the threats against himself and his family “a little disturbing,” knowing that he doesn’t know what to do to stop them. Trump’s backers have no problem with Fauci reciting facts as he knows them, something he calls “science.” Whether Fauci’s sees this or not, he’s antagonized Trump supporters that see him too often discrediting the president while opining about he coronavirus on various radio and TV stations. It just happens the 95% or more of today’s media despise Trump.

Going on various radio and TV shows to answer loaded questions that prove Trump is at odds with his Coronavirus Task Force looks political, even when Fauci says he’s just doing his job. Fauci likes hearing the solicitous media call him the “nation’s leading authority on infectious disease,” something not true based on his position with the NIH. Fauci’s nearing retirement, hardly someone in their prime in terms of doing active research in his field. Only recently, faced with some criticism by Trump, has Fauci done more interviews with the anti-Trump press. Democrat pollsters have had a field day asking respondents who they trust more Fauci or Trump? CNN’s Brian Stelter couldn’t contain his glee reporting July 16 that a Quinnipiac poll shows 75% of respondents trust Fauci on Covid-19 to only 27% for Trump. Fauci’s well aware of how the media uses him daily to get back at Trump.

When Trump pointed out that Fauci hasn’t always given him good advice, Fauci started going on radio and TV talks shows more regularly. Fauci’s often asked why he’s being kept away from press briefings, awkwardly telling the press “he can’t get into that kind of stuff.” Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx, both members of the Coronavirus Task Force, urged Trump to shutdown or lockdown parts of the U.S. economy, prompting the economy to lapse into the worst recession since the Great Depression. Trump admitted that Fauci opposed his Jan. 31 China travel ban, coming over a month before the World Health Organization [WHO] declared a global coronaviurs pandemic March 11. Fauci seemed to agree at the time with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom that the travel ban was unnecessary. On March 31, Fauci opposed the used of face-coverings or maska for the general public

Since Trump raised certain criticisms about Fauci, he’s spent most of his time doing interviews in the anti-Trump press, complaining that virus flair-ups around the country had to do with ending shelter in place orders prematurely. Trump’s 71-year-old chief adviser on trade Peter Navarro said Fauci “has been wrong about everything I have interacted with him on,” prompting Fauci to litigate his case against Trump in the media. If Fauci wants to know why he’s antagonized some of Trump supporters, he needs to look at the way he’s exploited by CNN and other anti-Trump news networks to discredit the president. Pretending he’s clueless only makes him look more partisan, letting the media ask him all the right questions to attack Trump. Fauci has no problem telling people to socially distance, wear masks and wash hands but he has a big problem admitting he’s used his position to defeat Trump’s reelection.

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The White House has undertaken behind-the-scenes efforts in recent months to undercut and sideline Dr. Anthony Fauci—even going so far as to compile a list of all the times he “has been wrong on things,” according to The Washington Post. After canceling some of his planned TV appearances and keeping him away from the Oval Office, White House officials and President Trump have taken to publicly expressing a loss of confidence in the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and face of the administration's coronavirus task force. The apparent attempts to undermine Fauci come as he continues to counter the president's overly optimistic narrative on the state of the pandemic. Against this backdrop, an unnamed White House official told the Post: “Several White House officials are concerned about the number of times Dr. Fauci has been wrong on things.” The official attached a list of incorrect predictions Fauci had made, including his doubts early on that asymptomatic spread would play a large role in transmission and a February assurance that Americans did not need to change their behavior. Like many other public health officials, Fauci said at first that masks were not necessary but recently recommended that they be mandated nationwide. “Dr. Fauci has a good bedside manner with the public but he has been wrong about everything I have ever interacted with him on,” Peter Navarro, the president’s trade adviser, told the Post in a separate statement. “Now Fauci is saying that a falling mortality rate doesn’t matter when it is the single most important statistic to help guide the pace of our economic reopening. So when you ask me if I listen to Dr. Fauci’s advice, my answer is only with caution.”In recent days, the 79-year-old doctor has offered unsparing assessments of the United States’ current situation. In an interview with 538 published Thursday, he was perhaps at his most blunt: “As a country, when you compare us to other countries, I don’t think you can say we’re doing great. I mean, we’re just not.” The same day, the commander-in-chief told Fox News host Sean Hannity in an interview that Fauci was “a nice man, but he’s made a lot of mistakes.” The two haven’t spoken in months, but Fauci has reportedly not complained about that. David Barr, an AIDS activist who knows Fauci, told the Post the doctor has become exasperated that state and local officials aren’t listening to experts.“Our bigger issue with Fauci is stop critiquing the task force...and try to fix it,” another White House official told the Post. The official said Fauci’s high approval and trustworthiness ratings have upset the president as his own deteriorate. The White House has also reportedly sought to keep Fauci out of the the public eye. A CBS anchor said last week that the White House has ignored requests to interview Fauci on air since early April, though he has spoken to print and podcast outlets. The White House maintains the authority to approve or deny interview requests for high-profile public officials and granted requests from PBS, CNN, and NBC to speak with the doctor only to cancel them after Fauci disagreed with Trump in a conversation with Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL), according to the Post. The epidemiologist said that Trump’s contention of a lower death rate indicating success in tamping down the virus was “a false narrative.” He warned against “false complacency.” Fauci has also said he’d like to go on Rachel Maddow’s show, which routinely critiques the president, a request that was rejected.Trump himself has been wrong on the coronavirus in a laundry list of ways as he’s pushed to reopen the country, and going after Fauci is not the only time he has attempted to contravene public health guidelines. He famously told Dr. Deborah Birx, the chief medical adviser on the White House Coronavirus Task Force, to “look into” the injection of bleach and the ingestion of sunlight as possible COVID-19 curatives. He’s also pressured the Food and Drug Administration to reinstate its emergency authorization for the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment, as has his former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who said doctors “don’t know what they’re talking about.” Trump himself has said he took the drug despite FDA advisories warning it is unsafe to do so and unlikely to prevent or treat the coronavirus.The president donned a face mask for a Saturday visit to Walter Reed Hospital, one of the first and only times he has done so in public after repeatedly shrugging off their importance in recent weeks and even mocking Joe Biden for wearing one. In Dr. Fauci We TrustRead more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.

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The White House Made a List of All the Times Fauci ‘Has Been Wrong’ on the Coronavirus

The White House has undertaken behind-the-scenes efforts in recent months to undercut and sideline Dr. Anthony Fauci—even going so far as to compile a list of all the times he “has been wrong on things,” according to The Washington Post. After canceling some of his planned TV appearances and keeping him away from the Oval Office, White House officials and President Trump have taken to publicly expressing a loss of confidence in the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and face of the administration’s coronavirus task force. The apparent attempts to undermine Fauci come as he continues to counter the president’s overly optimistic narrative on the state of the pandemic. Against this backdrop, an unnamed White House official told the Post: “Several White House officials are concerned about the number of times Dr. Fauci has been wrong on things.” The official attached a list of incorrect predictions Fauci had made, including his doubts early on that asymptomatic spread would play a large role in transmission and a February assurance that Americans did not need to change their behavior. Like many other public health officials, Fauci said at first that masks were not necessary but recently recommended that they be mandated nationwide. “Dr. Fauci has a good bedside manner with the public but he has been wrong about everything I have ever interacted with him on,” Peter Navarro, the president’s trade adviser, told the Post in a separate statement. “Now Fauci is saying that a falling mortality rate doesn’t matter when it is the single most important statistic to help guide the pace of our economic reopening. So when you ask me if I listen to Dr. Fauci’s advice, my answer is only with caution.”In recent days, the 79-year-old doctor has offered unsparing assessments of the United States’ current situation. In an interview with 538 published Thursday, he was perhaps at his most blunt: “As a country, when you compare us to other countries, I don’t think you can say we’re doing great. I mean, we’re just not.” The same day, the commander-in-chief told Fox News host Sean Hannity in an interview that Fauci was “a nice man, but he’s made a lot of mistakes.” The two haven’t spoken in months, but Fauci has reportedly not complained about that. David Barr, an AIDS activist who knows Fauci, told the Post the doctor has become exasperated that state and local officials aren’t listening to experts.“Our bigger issue with Fauci is stop critiquing the task force…and try to fix it,” another White House official told the Post. The official said Fauci’s high approval and trustworthiness ratings have upset the president as his own deteriorate. The White House has also reportedly sought to keep Fauci out of the the public eye. A CBS anchor said last week that the White House has ignored requests to interview Fauci on air since early April, though he has spoken to print and podcast outlets. The White House maintains the authority to approve or deny interview requests for high-profile public officials and granted requests from PBS, CNN, and NBC to speak with the doctor only to cancel them after Fauci disagreed with Trump in a conversation with Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL), according to the Post. The epidemiologist said that Trump’s contention of a lower death rate indicating success in tamping down the virus was “a false narrative.” He warned against “false complacency.” Fauci has also said he’d like to go on Rachel Maddow’s show, which routinely critiques the president, a request that was rejected.Trump himself has been wrong on the coronavirus in a laundry list of ways as he’s pushed to reopen the country, and going after Fauci is not the only time he has attempted to contravene public health guidelines. He famously told Dr. Deborah Birx, the chief medical adviser on the White House Coronavirus Task Force, to “look into” the injection of bleach and the ingestion of sunlight as possible COVID-19 curatives. He’s also pressured the Food and Drug Administration to reinstate its emergency authorization for the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment, as has his former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who said doctors “don’t know what they’re talking about.” Trump himself has said he took the drug despite FDA advisories warning it is unsafe to do so and unlikely to prevent or treat the coronavirus.The president donned a face mask for a Saturday visit to Walter Reed Hospital, one of the first and only times he has done so in public after repeatedly shrugging off their importance in recent weeks and even mocking Joe Biden for wearing one. In Dr. Fauci We TrustRead more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.

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After a day of making headlines for openly disagreeing with his own health officials and making unchecked medical suggestions, Donald Trump spoke for six minutes and did not take questions from reporters at Friday’s daily coronavirus task force briefing.

The briefing lasted about 21 minutes in total, while Vice President Mike Pence and Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn did most of the talking.

In his quick speech at the beginning of the briefing, Trump gave a broad overview of how states across the country are handling the coronavirus and claimed other countries around the world are looking to the U.S. as a model for how to respond to the pandemic that’s claimed over 188,000 lives across the globe.

“The whole world is watching us,” Trump, 73, said. “They’re all watching us.”

But Trump did not stick around to answer questions from members of the media following Hahn and Pence’s updates and quickly left the White House briefing room as reporters called out questions regarding his claim earlier Friday that suggestions he made the day before about injecting bleach were merely made “sarcastically.”

Trump did not respond to any of the questions called out to him as he left the briefing room.

“Wow,” PBS reporter Yamiche Alcindor, who has covered many of the daily coronavirus briefings, tweeted afterward. “WH briefing is over. That was much shorter than usual.”

Axios reported soon after Friday’s briefing that sources signal Trump may be planning to scale back his daily coronavirus briefings going forward.

Some of Trump’s most trusted advisers “have urged him to stop doing marathon televised briefings,” Axios reports.

“I told him it’s not helping him,” one adviser to the president told Axios. “Seniors are scared. And the spectacle of him fighting with the press isn’t what people want to see.”

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Some Republican senators voiced their own concerns to The New York Times earlier this month about Trump’s daily briefings.

Sen. Lindsey Graham said Trump “sometimes drowns out his own message,” while adding “a once-a-week show” may be more effective.

Another source told Axios on Friday: “I mean, you wonder how we got to the point where you’re talking about injecting disinfectant?”

Trump faced heavy criticism following Thursday’s briefing when he appeared to suggest injecting disinfectants could be one way to cure the COVID-19 respiratory illness, which is caused by the novel coronavirus.

The suggestion was immediately denounced by Trump’s own health officials, questioned by reporters, and labeled “dangerous” by doctors afterwards.

“Chlorine bleach and other disinfectants should never be ingested or injected into the body to treat infections such as COVID-19. Such a practice could be lethal or cause serious bodily harm,” the American Chemistry Council said in a statement Friday morning.

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Reckitt Benckiser, the makers of Lysol, released their own statement advising people not to consume their disinfectant products.

“As a global leader in health and hygiene products, we must be clear that under no circumstance should our disinfectant products be administered into the human body (through injection, ingestion or any other route),” the company said. “As with all products, our disinfectant and hygiene products should only be used as intended and in line with usage guidelines.”

Other medical experts called Trump’s suggestion “dangerous.”

“This notion of injecting or ingesting any type of cleansing product into the body is irresponsible and it’s dangerous,” Dr. Vin Gupta, a pulmonologist and global health policy expert, told NBC News.

Federal health officials were notably absent at Friday’s press briefing.

The health officials on Trump’s coronavirus task force, such as infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci and coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx, have appeared at the briefings interchangeably but have typically been represented during the president’s daily remarks — routinely answering the president’s questions, no matter how bewildering.

Birx told Trump yesterday she hadn’t heard of heat or ultraviolet light being used to cure the coronavirus.

“Not as a treatment,” she said.

U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams tweeted Friday morning that people should ask their doctors about medical advice.

“A reminder to all Americans – PLEASE always talk to your health provider first before administering any treatment/ medication to yourself or a loved one,” the surgeon general wrote. “Your safety is paramount, and doctors and nurses have years of training to recommend what’s safe and effective.”

At least 45,000 people in the U.S. have died from the coronavirus, according to the Times, while there have been at least 891,000 confirmed cases across the country.

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