The infectious-disease expert on Trump’s coronavirus task force, Anthony S. Fauci, has privately pleaded with the president to be more cautious. It also has provoked an ugly divide within a White House already besieged as it struggles to make up for lost time in slowing the spread of the coronavirus. The agency also has authorized the emergency use of the drug from the Strategic National Stockpile for certain hospitalized patients. White House officials compiled upbeat news articles about people who said they were helped by the experimental drug to give to the president. “The president is talking to so many people in New York — friends, Wall Street guys, real estate guys,” one White House official said.

Source: Washington Post April 06, 2020 23:44 UTC