Headline Roundup • June 1st, 2021
Report Reveals Fauci's Emails With Business Leaders, Chinese Health Official
Summary from the AllSides News Team
A Washington Post report published Tuesday revealed 866 pages of leading disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci's emails sent during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. The unveiled emails show Fauci's correspondence with business leaders, random strangers, colleagues and leaders from foreign governments, including George Gao, director of China's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At times, Fauci said he was sending up to 1,000 emails per day.
The Post described the emails as indicative of Fauci's struggle "to bring coherence to the Trump administration’s chaotic response to the virus." Reports from right-rated sources often framed the emails as evidence of Fauci being overly friendly toward Chinese health officials; many singled out a email from Fauci to Gao in which he said the two would "get through this together."
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Axios
The Washington Post obtained 866 pages of Anthony Fauci's emails from March and April 2020 via the Freedom of Information Act, revealing what it was like for the government's top infectious-disease expert to navigate the chaotic early weeks of the pandemic under the Trump administration.
Why it matters: Fauci has been one of the most prominent public faces of the U.S. government's coronavirus response, opening him up to both widespread admiration and criticism. U.S. officials were eventually forced to assign Fauci a full-time security detail.
The big picture: Fauci told the Post that he...
Washington Post
As the coronavirus pandemic engulfed the world last spring, Science magazine quoted a top Chinese health official saying that the United States and other Western nations were making a “big mistake” by not telling people to mask up.
The official, George Gao, worried that the comment might upset his longtime friend Anthony S. Fauci, Washington’s leading expert on infectious diseases. So amid the deepening crisis, Gao reached out to clear the air.
“I saw the Science interview, how could I say such a word ‘big mistake’ about others? That was journalist’s...
New York Post (News)
Dr. Anthony Fauci corresponded with a Chinese health official early in the pandemic, acknowledging the “crazy people in this world” and vowing to “get through this together,” a new report revealed Tuesday.
The nation’s top expert on infectious diseases received an email March 28, 2020, from George Gao, director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, in which Gao apologized for saying the US and other countries were making a “big mistake” by not encouraging people to wear masks from the get-go, according to correspondence obtained by the Washington...
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