Fauci says he worried Trump's disinfectant comment would make people 'start doing dangerous and foolish things'

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Fauci says he worried Trump's disinfectant comment would make people 'start doing dangerous and foolish things'

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"I just said, 'Oh my goodness gracious.' I could just see what's going to happen," Fauci told CNN's Erin Burnett on "Out Front" of Trump's suggestion.

"You're going to have people who hear that from the President and they're going to start doing dangerous and foolish things, which is the reason why, immediately, those of us who were not there said, 'This is something you should not do.' Be very explicit. The (US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) came out, I think, the next day and put in one of their publications, 'Do not do this.'"

And Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican, said at the time that his state fielded hundreds of calls from people across Maryland asking whether injecting or ingesting disinfectants was an effective way to combat coronavirus.
Fauci recalled Monday evening that Trump had been getting a mix of "good information and bad information" on the pandemic.
"Unfortunately, the concept of anecdotal as opposed to science-driven information seemed to prevail," he said. "I took no great pleasure out of contradicting the President, but I had to get out just to maintain my own integrity, but also to stand up for science that the data did not show what they were claiming."
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