Cracks are beginning to appear in the relationship between President Trump and White House infectious diseases expert Dr Anthony Fauci, who reportedly has not briefed the president in two months.
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Meanwhile, the United States has soared past 68,000 new coronavirus cases in one day, shattering its previous record. Dr Fauci disagreed with Mr Trump’s claim 99 per cent of coronavirus cases were harmless. He told The Financial Times “what I think happened is someone told him that general mortality is about per cent and he interpreted that 99 per cent is not a problem when that is obviously not the case”.
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