I took a look at the article you linked.
The first item puts statements in quotes and doesn't list the source. That's shoddy journalism. What's worse is the quotes aren't totally accurate.
This is what the article says. In January Dr. Anthony Fauci told Newsmax TV that the United States “did not have to worry” about the coronavirus and that it was “not a major threat.”
And this is what Fauci actually said: "But this is not a major threat to the people of the United States and this is not something that the citizens of the United States right now should be worried about.” [
www.statesman.com]
The difference is that the actual quote says "right now". At the time of that statement - January 21 - there was 1 confirmed case in the USA. Was he wrong in the context of when he said it?
The second item says "Dr. Fauci warned of an apocalyptic coronavirus pandemic — then just weeks later he compared the coronavirus to a bad flu." What Fauci actually said was that the mortality rate of COVID-19 may be closer to a very bad flu. That's not even close to the same thing.
Here is the actual quote: "This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968) rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS, which have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10% and 36%, respectively." [
www.nejm.org]
I take that to mean that the morbidity rate for COVID-19 is likely to be closer to .1% than 9% or 10% or even 36%. New York has done more testing than any state in the union and more than any country in the world, and our data says the mortality rate for COVID-19 is either .5% (if you just count confirmed deaths) or .8% (if you count both confirmed deaths and probable deaths). Either way it seems like Fauci was right.
I stopped reading at that point. I kind of saw where this was headed ...
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