Anthony Fauci says Donald Trump’s signals on COVID-19 measures 'not helpful'

US top infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci said that video shared by President Donald Trump which me unproven claims about COVID-19 were “t helpful”, as death related to virus crossed sombre milestone of 150,000. Trump h shared a video on social media in which a group called America's Frontline Doctors vocated hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment and called masks and lockdowns t effective in combating virus.

Facebook and Twitter removed video from ir social media platforms, flagging it as misinformation but it h alrey garnered millions of views. video also accused Dr Fauci and Democrats from preventing world from learning a coronavirus “cure” and “perpetuate COVID deaths to hurt Trump". 

Dr Fauci denied misleing public and told BBC that he has never understood issue of tweeting and retweeting or gotten involved in. He said that it’s t helpful if people get signals about t wearing masks when health authorities are trying to get people to universally wear masks.

79-year-old immulogist said that importance of mask is very clearly understood by everyone including “those in White House”. He also me it clear that every single randomised control study has shown that hydroxychloroquine, touted as a miracle drug by Trump, is t effective in treatment of COVID-19.

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At loggerhes with Trump

United States remains worst-hit country with regard to number of confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths linked to pandemic. It has reported over 4.4 million COVID-19 cases and 150,713 deaths so far, according to Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Centre.

Dr Fauci, a member of White House coronavirus task force, has been at loggerhes with Trump over his statements related to virus response. Recently, he called White House effort to discredit him "bizarre" and urged an end to divisiveness over country's response to COVID-19 pandemic, saying "let's stop this nsense." Dr Fauci also revealed that he was longer in frequent contact with Trump following his statement on easing of restrictions.

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(Im: AP)