The outgoing director of the National Institutes of Health said that he faced political pressure from then-President Donald Trump and other Republicans to endorse unproven Covid-19 remedies and to fire Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Washington The outgoing director of the National Institutes of Health said Sunday that he faced political pressure from then-President Donald Trump and other Republicans to endorse unproven Covid-19 remedies such as hydroxychloroquine and to fire Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Dr. Francis Collins, whose last day as NIH director is Sunday, told CBS News that he got a"talking to" by Trump, but that he held his ground and would have resigned if Trump made him endorse remedies for Covid-19 that were not based in science. "I have done everything I can to stay out of any kind of political, partisan debates because it is really not a place where medical research belongs," he said.
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