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Did Fauci really call Covid ‘Wuhan strain’? Remark compared to Trump's ‘China virus’ rhetoric

'Truly is amazing watching you people defend fauci for the same shit you demonized Trump for,' said a user

Dr Anthony Fauci has received a lot of people’s wrath online after he reportedly called the Covid-19 the ‘Wuhan strain’. He has also been compared to former President Donald Trump who was deemed racist and “xenophobic” for calling the deadly disease “China Virus”. Fauci gave his first interview to Fox Business on Friday, December 3, after refusing their requests for several months. He appeared on ‘Cavuto: Coast to Coast’ to talk about the US strategy to curb the new Omicron variant, which first emerged in South Africa recently.

During the discussion, the 80-year-old top doctor said, “I don't think there's a chance you're going to eradicate this because we've only eradicated one virus for humans in history and that was smallpox. Elimination is tough. I'm not so sure we're going to be able to do that, at least not in the near future. That's aspirational.”

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He continued, “We do know that with the boosters we're giving now, we're not only getting a higher level of immunity, we're getting a more breadth of immunity, which I believe may give us more duration. So better control is what I think we need to look for and then we can get back to some form of normality to our lives,” before adding, “You hear me talk a lot about boosters, Neil, and the reason I do is that if you look at the vaccination, we were vaccinated against the original, what we call ‘ancestral or Wuhan strain’ yet when you get antibodies from that vaccination and when you get boosted, the level of protection spills over to Delta, Alpha, Beta and very likely will spill over to Omicron.”

People soon took to Twitter to slam Fauci and drew a comparison between him and Trump, who received a lot of backlash in 2020 after calling the coronavirus “China virus”. President Joe Biden had even called him “xenophobic,” which people believed was in response to the Republican’s travel ban. In a series of tweets written in March 2020, Trump had said: “I will be having a news conference today to discuss very important news from FDA concerning the Chinese Virus!” He also stated, “$2000 for our great people, not $600! They have suffered enough from the China Virus!!!”

But at the beginning of this week, White House press secretary Jen Psaki claimed that Biden’s 2020’s “xenophobic” comment was in response to Trump’s “China virus” tweets. During Monday's press briefing, Psaki said, “What the president was critical of was the way that the former president put out, I believe, a xenophobic tweet and what he called the coronavirus and who he directed it at. The president has not been critical of travel restrictions, we have put those in place ourselves in the spring.”

Meanwhile, Fauci’s Friday comment received a lot of attention online. A user tweeted, “I guess his latest installment check from China didn't clear!” Another user said, “The Wuhan strain...China not gonna be happy.” “Truly is amazing watching you people defend fauci for the same s**t you demonized Trump for,” an angry user commented.

A person sarcastically wrote, “WOW! Fauci just called Covid the WUHAN STRAIN.” The second one stated, “Fauci just called the original Covid virus the “ancestral or Wuhan strain” on Fox Business.  Still seems like a common sense sort of thing to call it, even when Trump did it, huh?” “why we haven’t heard the outrage from the left in response to Fauci’s repeated use of the term Wuhan strain this week needs to remember that what we’ve been told by the press & left the last 18mo has been part of a vast political theater that was to benefit one side politically,” a tweet added.