{"id":9839,"date":"2020-03-25T14:37:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T18:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=9839"},"modified":"2020-03-25T14:42:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T18:42:14","slug":"9839","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=9839","title":{"rendered":"BOMBSHELL: Deep State<\/i> Operative Dr. Anthony Fauci Declared <\/i>‘there is \u201cno doubt\u201d\u00a0Donald J. Trump\u00a0will be confronted with a surprise infectious disease outbreak during his presidency’<\/i><\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fauci: \u2018No doubt\u2019 Trump will face surprise infectious disease outbreak<\/h1>\n

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Anthony S. Fauci, MD,\u00a0<\/strong>director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said there is \u201cno doubt\u201d\u00a0Donald J. Trump\u00a0<\/strong>will be confronted with a surprise infectious disease outbreak during his presidency.<\/p>\n

Fauci has led the NIAID for more than 3 decades, advising the past five United States presidents on global health threats from the early days of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s through to the current Zika virus outbreak.<\/p>\n

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During a forum on pandemic preparedness at Georgetown University, Fauci said the Trump administration will not only be challenged by ongoing global health threats such as influenza and HIV, but also a surprise disease outbreak.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe history of the last 32 years that I have been the director of the NIAID will tell the next administration that there is no doubt they will be faced with the challenges their predecessors were faced with,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

While observers have speculated since his election about how Trump will respond to such challenges, Fauci and other health experts said Tuesday that preventing disease pandemics often starts overseas and that a proper response means collaboration between not only the U.S. and other countries, but also the public and private health sectors.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will definitely get surprised in the next few years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u2018Risks have never been higher\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trump, the real estate developer-turned-Republican politician, has\u00a0worried some infectious disease experts<\/a>\u00a0with controversial and sometimes unclear views on certain health issues.<\/p>\n

Ronald Klain,<\/strong> who coordinated the U.S.\u2019s Ebola response for the Obama administration, said Trump\u2019s virtual silence about the Zika outbreak and harsh comments about American volunteers infected during the West African Ebola outbreak is \u201cnot the kind of leadership we need in our next president.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Experts speculated about the infectious disease threats Donald Trump will face as president.
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\u201cIt\u2019s hard to think of a more important time to show a willingness to speak out in the public health community and the global health community than it is right now on the eve of Donald Trump becoming our next president,\u201d Klain said. \u201cThe risks have never been higher, and the question of his perspective on these issues has never been more dubious than it is with Donald Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fauci and others noted some of the disease outbreaks that recent administrations have faced, including current President\u00a0Barack Obama,\u00a0<\/strong>whose administration was tested early on with an\u00a0H1N1 influenza pandemic<\/a>\u00a0in 2009. More recently, the administration was forced to\u00a0repurpose almost $600 million<\/a>\u00a0in federal funds set aside for the Ebola outbreak when Republicans rejected Obama\u2019s request for $1.9 billion to fund the nation\u2019s Zika response.<\/p>\n

Current Deputy Homeland Security Advisor\u00a0Amy Pope, JD,<\/strong>\u00a0said it was \u201ctypical\u201d of the U.S. government that money meant for the Ebola epidemic was appropriated for Zika because of the proclivity of populations to worry about what is currently threatening them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe shouldn\u2019t ask the American public to make those choices in the future,\u201d she said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t keep them safe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Klain said pandemic preparedness should be approached from a nonpartisan angle. A Democrat, he referenced Republican President\u00a0George W. Bush\u00a0<\/strong>founding the U.S. President\u2019s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and said Republican Senators\u00a0Mitch McConnell\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Lindsey Graham\u00a0<\/strong>collaborated with the Obama administration on the Ebola response.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe mosquitoes don\u2019t know if they\u2019re biting Democrats or Republicans,\u201d Klain said. \u201cThey don\u2019t know what party you are.\u201d<\/p>\n

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According to some of the experts who spoke on Tuesday, preparing the U.S. for pandemics requires proper funding and starts by battling disease outbreaks overseas. This is not just the right thing to do, but the best way to keep Americans safe, Klain said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no safety for us and our populace when infectious diseases rage,\u201d he said. \u201cThe only way the American people can have safety and security in their lives is to promote safety and security around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some other highlights from the forum:<\/p>\n