主持人:特朗普错报了福奇过去对口罩的评论
特朗普的主张:“没人知道它来自哪里,它是什么。我们学到了很多。但是安东尼说不要戴口罩。现在他想戴口罩。”
主持人:美国最主要的传染病专家之一安东尼·富奇博士和其他公共卫生专家最初告诉美国人,在成为COVID-19大流行的初期,不要戴手术口罩或N95口罩。
在大流行开始时,疾病控制和预防中心,世界卫生组织以及Fauci和其他高级专家最初不建议戴口罩,因为担心口罩和其他个人防护设备不足以提供医疗保健需要他们的工人。公共卫生官员还担心,如果人们经常触摸他们的脸以调整口罩或未能与社会保持距离,戴口罩可能会产生意想不到的后果。
Fauci在最近的一次采访中说:“有一种感觉,就是那些很早就真正需要他们的人会短缺。” “这很重要。我们没有足够的个人防护装备,包括口罩。然后很明显,布口罩工作得很好。因此,不再存在短缺。然后进行了各种分析,荟萃分析和其他工作,它确实有效。”
4月初,疾病预防控制中心基于证据表明大量无症状或尚未感到不适的人正在传播该病毒,改变了其对普通公众的建议。
杜克大学的研究人员还得出结论:“如果95%的人与其他人在6英尺之内时戴着口罩,这将使COVID-19传播减少至少30%。”
特朗普还表示,他认为福奇是民主党人,但根据哥伦比亚特区的投票记录,福奇并未注册为任何政党的成员。
Fact check: Trump misstates Fauci's past comments on masks
TRUMP'S CLAIM: "Nobody knew where it was coming from, what it was. We've learned a lot. But Anthony said don't wear masks. Now he wants to wear masks."
FACT CHECK: Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of the top infectious disease experts in the country, and other public health experts initially told Americans not to wear surgical or N95 masks in the early days of what has become the COVID-19 pandemic.
At the beginning of the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization, as well as Fauci and other top experts, initially discouraged wearing masks because of concerns that masks and other personal protective equipment were in short supply for health care workers who needed them. Public health officials were also concerned wearing masks could have unintended consequences if people touched their face more often to adjust them or fail to keep social distancing.
"There was this feeling that there would be a shortage just for those who really need them very early on," Fauci said in a recent interview. "That was the big deal. We didn't have enough PPE including masks. Then it became clear that cloth masks worked reasonably well. And therefore there was no more shortage. Then the different analyses, meta analyses and others came in that in fact, it does work."
In early April, the CDC changed its recommendation about face coverings for the general public, based on evidence that a significant number of people who were asymptomatic or not yet feeling sick were transmitting the virus.
Duke University researchers have also concluded that "if 95 percent of people wear cloth masks when within 6 feet of other people in public, it will reduce COVID-19 transmission by at least 30 percent."
Trump also said he thought Fauci was a Democrat, but Fauci is not registered as a member of any political party, according to D.C. voting