Elon Musk on Sunday targeted America's outgoing top infectious disease official and key advisor of the US response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Anthony Fauci, in a viral tweet that sparked backlash.
Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar praised how Dr Fauci "calmly guided our country through crisis".
"My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci," the billionaire Twitter CEO said, alluding to the practice of indicating gender pronouns after one's name as well as the right-wing campaign to charge Dr Fauci with crimes related to his involvement in US COVID policies. Vaccine scientist and author Peter Hotez called on Mr Musk to delete the tweet, saying, "200,000 Americans needlessly lost their lives from Covid due to this kind of antiscience rhetoric and disinformation."
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