'Dr. Fauci Warned Trump Admin. in Jan. 2017 It Would Face A Surprise Disease Outbreak' 3 1/2 Yrs Ago

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'Dr. Fauci warned the Trump administration in 2017 it would face a surprise disease outbreak.' By Alex Henderson, Alternet, July 30, 2020.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, now 79, was warning about the deadly potential of pandemics long before COVID-19 first surfaced in Mainland China in late 2019. Reporter McKenzie Sadeghi, in USA Today, fact-checks reports that Fauci warned President Donald Trump’s incoming administration about the possibility of a deadly outbreak in early 2017 and examines what the expert immunologist had to say three and a half years ago.

Sadeghi writes that it is inaccurate to claim that Fauci was warning about COVID-19 specifically in 2017, as the disease didn’t exist back then. But to say that Fauci was sounding the alarm about pandemics in general, Sadeghi explains, is absolutely correct.

“The claim that Dr. Anthony Fauci, in 2017, warned the (incoming) Trump administration of the likelihood of an infectious disease outbreak is true based on our research,” Sadeghi reports. “Fauci did not warn about the coronavirus specifically, as some posts claim, but rather, that a more general ‘surprise infectious disease outbreak’ would take place.”

According to Sadeghi, Fauci — in a January 10, 2017 speech — warned Trump’s incoming administration, “There is no question that there will be a challenge to the coming administration in the arena of infectious diseases…. The thing we’re extraordinarily confident about is that we’re going to see this in the next few years.”. That speech, Sadeghi notes, was part of an event billed as “Pandemic Preparedness in the Next Administration,” and Georgetown University has posted Fauci’s speech on YouTube.

https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/dr-fauci-warned-the-trump-administration-in-2017-it-would-face-a-surprise-disease-outbreak/

*Watch the speech below*:

'Pandemic Preparedness In The Next Administration:' Keynote Address By Anthony S. Fauci, Jan. 10, 2017, Georgetown University.

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1. More evidence that Fauci made it in a lab. He knew ahead of time!

That's how the Nutty Buddies will see this. Not that orange blob dropped the ball.

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2. He must have forgot, because in mid-February, Fauci said CV19 risk is minuscule.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/02/17/nih-disease-official-anthony-fauci-risk-of-coronavirus-in-u-s-is-minuscule-skip-mask-and-wash-hands/4787209002/

I’m a Fauci supporter, but he’s been wrong too.

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3. Watch his speech, read the USA Today piece & what all Fauci said:

USA Today, Feb. 17, 2020.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will be testing for the coronavirus in people in five major cities who show up at clinics with flu-like symptoms but who test negative for the seasonal varieties.

>If that testing shows the virus has slipped into the country in places federal officials don't know about, "we've got a problem," Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told USA TODAY's Editorial Board Monday.

"We want to reassure the public that at this time there is no evidence that food or food packaging have been associated with transmission and no reason to be concerned," Hahn said. "Further, there is no evidence to support transmission of COVID-19 associated with imported goods, including food and drugs for humans and pets, and there have not been any cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. associated with imported goods."