Dr. Anthony Fauci (CNN video screenshot)
Contention over guidance on face coverings, social distancing and avoiding large crowds has become personal, said White House health adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci in an interview Wednesday with CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta
Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said harassment and death threats against him and his family have required an enhanced security team since April.
"The unseemingly things that crises bring out in the world, it brings out the best of people and the worst of people, and getting death threats to my family and harassing my daughters to the point where I have to get security — it's amazing," Fauci said in the interview, which was streamed live on the Facebook page of Harvard's School of Public Health, CNBC reported.
Fauci said he would not "have imagined in my wildest dreams that people who object to things that are pure public health principles are so set against it and don’t like what you and I say, namely in the world of science, that they actually threaten you."
"I mean, that to me is just strange," he told Gupta.
Fauci and Trump administration officials sometimes have been at odds over how to handle the coronavirus pandemic.
"There is a degree of anti-science feeling in this country," Fauci said.
But it's about more than science, he added.
"It's almost related to authority and a mistrust in authority that spills over because in some respects, scientists because they're trying to present data may be looked at ... as being an authoritative figure," he said.
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