(today)

Fauci said that the „first and only time“ that he and coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx talked to Trump about „shutdown“-like mitigation policies, „the president listened to the recommendation and went to the mitigation.“

When Fauci and Birx went to Trump a second time advising him to extend the White House‘s social-distancing guidelines through the end of April, Trump „went with the health recommendations,“ Fauci said.