Early in the pandemic, Dan Patrick suggested it was acceptable to “exchange” the lives of seniors to save the economy.
Appearing in an interview on Fox News with host Laura Ingraham on Tuesday evening, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick lambasted Anthony Fauci, a member of the White House’s coronavirus task force and one of the nation’s top experts on infectious diseases.
Fauci, who is also the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is consistently viewed as one of the most trusted voices on COVID-19 in the country. Earlier on Tuesday, he testified to a Senate panel on the disease, opining that several states had reopened their economies too quickly and had skipped “over some of the checkpoints” necessary to reopening in a safer way.
“I’m very concerned about what’s going on right now, particularly in the four states that are accounting for about 50 percent of the new infections,” Fauci said.
Texas is among the four states Fauci was alluding to, which apparently caused Patrick to lash out at him on Tuesday night.
The lieutenant governor, who once suggested it was acceptable to “exchange” the lives of seniors in order to save the economy, claimed Fauci was “wrong every time on every issue” related to coronavirus, but wouldn’t elaborate on what he was wrong about.
