COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US)

At the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak — and for weeks afterward — there was one thing Americans could seemingly agree upon: Anthony S. Fauci.


Today, that’s considerably less the case. While Fauci retains the faith of a strong majority of Americans, opposition from Republicans has crept up steadily over the past month or so, as conservative media figures and politicians have increasingly called his advice into question.

Picking up that mantle in a particularly prominent way Tuesday was Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who spent his time at a hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee grilling Fauci and suggesting he shouldn’t oversell his knowledge about what might become of the novel coronavirus — while also questioning Fauci’s role in decisions about the response.........

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...icans-are-increasingly-turning-against-fauci/