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You don't want to go to war with a president [...] There's a temptation that you have to fight to tell the president what you think he wants to hear. I’ve seen really good people do that.

— Anthony Fauci

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You've got to balance the compassionate-use aspect with trying to figure out whether it works.

I can't jump in front of the microphone and push him down. OK, he said it. Let's try and get it corrected for the next time.

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I don't regret that. At that time, there was a paucity of equipment that our health care providers needed -- who put themselves daily in harm's way of taking care of people who are ill. We did not want to divert masks and PPE away from them, to be used by the people.

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