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Checked by FactCheck.org29 Apr 2020United StatesHealth
Donald Trump, President of the United States

“Claimed Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was saying in late February of the coronavirus: “This is no problem. This is going to blow — this is going to blow over.”

FactCheck.org rated this: False

FactCheck.org says: Fauci said that "right now at this moment" the risk was "low" and there was "no need" for people "to change anything that you're doing on a day-by-day basis." But he added this could develop into a "major outbreak."