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武漢肺炎疫情在美國蔓延勢頭兇猛，確診數超過20萬，50個州全部陷落，其中紐約州的確診接近全美半數。美國國家過敏與傳染病研究所（NIAID）主管福西（Anthony Fauci）警告，疫情可能在美國奪走20萬人命，數百萬人感染。特朗普亦改變態度，不再淡化嚴重性，不再講樂觀豪言，而是確認情勢嚴峻，宣告美國將經歷「極度痛苦的兩星期」，「未來兩周就像是地獄。這是鼓起勇氣的時刻，因為我們既已來到地獄門前，就必將穿過它」。
20萬人死？自稱自己國家是地獄？有冇搞錯？這是中國人永遠無法理解，而美國人卻勇於面對的事。美國人最重視的品格就是誠實，不怕說出真話，不怕把情勢估計得惡劣，最不能容忍的就是虛假、作偽，不肯正視現實。過去幾個星期，幾乎每天都跟特朗普的樂觀言論過不去的，一是79歲的福西，另一個就是紐約州州長科莫。
新病毒存在許多不確定性，因此美國人不介意領導人因為誤信錯誤資訊或中國的虛假資訊而作出過份樂觀判斷，甚至能夠理解特朗普在選舉年不想經濟成就被病毒一鋪清袋而不願設想疫災嚴重。只是特朗普每天奔忙應付疫情的整體表現，仍然令他民望有所上升。但民望大升的，卻是過去默默無聞的科莫，他的支持率從2月時的44%飆升至71%，創下上任來的新高。
特朗普改變對疫情的態度，科莫對特朗普也改變態度了。在迎接美國海軍醫療船安慰號駛達紐約港口的星期一，他第一次感謝美國總統特朗普，其後又說，「這是一場戰爭，我贊同總統這句話」。特朗普也以他的方式向科莫致敬：「科莫比拜登更適合當民主黨總統候選人」。
科莫衝在第一線，訪問醫院、訪問警員、訪問社區。不是去喊「紐約加油」，而是實實在在查看現況，天天在電視機前匯報疫情。與特朗普的樂觀態度相反，62歲的科莫總是憂心忡忡，他說紐約州的感染人數每三天就增加一倍；他說：「我們會全力以赴，能救一個就救一個，以後回想起來可以說我們盡力了。」他調派國民警衞軍到紐約州的重災區時，當面對他們說，「我向你們保證，我不會要求你們做任何我不會做的事，不會要求你們到任何我不會去的地方。」
相對於在疫情中，叫業主減鋪租、市民減收入，而自己的高薪卻不減分毫；自己不去醫院和重災區，卻沒有足夠的防護給醫護人員。如果稍有羞恥心，能不愧煞？
3月20日，科莫向全美各州已退休的醫護人員呼救：「如果你所在社區情況沒有很緊急，請到紐約來。請幫幫我們。你們幫了我們，我們會在你們需要的時候報答你們。」不到十天，包括退休醫護人員和醫學生的志願者總數已超過76,000多人。一位醫生說，很多跟自己曾經一起工作過的醫生護士都回來了，這就是對病毒最大的反擊。一位老醫生說：「如果我因為治病救人而倒下，那是我的榮幸。」
科莫的呼喚，不僅是在紐約州獲迴響，而且提振了全美國團結抗疫的決心和勇氣。特朗普終於面對現實。科莫說：「事實就是事實，我們向人民提供的事實，不是悲觀的事實，也不是樂觀的事實，是我們目前掌握的最真實的資訊。我認為這很有力量。」
真實，truth，就是真理，不管悲觀或樂觀，它就是力量。隱瞞疫情，不敢把實情告訴人們，一味吹噓虛假成績，自我安慰，就是無能的表現。中國官方現在說，經濟已經V形反彈，今年可保GDP增長5.5%。大陸有人說，這些話就像當初聽到疫情「可防可控」一樣，特別覺得恐怖。
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Dr Anthony Fauci speaks at the White House with Trump nearby at a press briefing on 21 March 2020. Photograph: REX/Shutterstock
Dr Anthony Fauci, the head of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has not been fired.
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That might not seem much in the way of news but Dr Fauci is the public face of the US scientific community in the face of the coronavirus outbreak, and as such must regularly appear alongside Donald Trump at the White House podium.
Across the US media, the doctor’s reaction to every Trumpian claim, exaggeration or outright lie is frantically parsed for meaning, his occasional absence from the podium subject to national debate.
In a brief interview with Science magazine published on Sunday, Dr Fauci, 79, was asked how it felt to “stand there as the representative of truth and facts [when] things are being said that aren’t true and aren’t factual”.
“I can’t jump in front of the microphone and push him down,” he said. “OK, he said it. Let’s try and get it corrected for the next time.”
That, Dr Fauci said, involved members of the White House coronavirus task force who, “the next time they sit down with him and talk about what he’s going to say, they will say, ‘By the way, Mr President, be careful about this and don’t say that.’”
In one notable recent example, Trump spoke from the podium on Friday about the idea that hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial drug, might treat the coronavirus. Dr Fauci then knocked the claim down, gently.
“Many of the things out there are what I have called ‘anecdotal reports,’” he said. “The information that you’re referring to specifically is anecdotal. It was not done in a controlled clinical trial, so you really can’t make any definitive statement about it.”
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He subsequently told the New York Times he did not want to “embarrass” Trump, adding: “I don’t want to act like a tough guy, like I stood up to the president. I just want to get the facts out. And instead of saying, ‘You’re wrong,’ all you need to do is continually talk about what the data are and what the evidence is.”
Fauci told Science he was “sort of exhausted. But other than that, I’m good. I mean, I’m not, to my knowledge, coronavirus infected. To my knowledge, I haven’t been fired.”
Asked how he hadn’t been fired, having corrected the president so many times, he said: “Well, that’s pretty interesting because to his [Trump’s] credit, even though we disagree on some things, he listens. He goes his own way. He has his own style. But on substantive issues, he does listen to what I say.”
Dr Fauci also described the process by which Trump prepares for briefings, which some say should not be carried live, given the president’s use of the podium to attack reporters and his political enemies.
“We sit down for an hour and a half,” Dr Fauci said, “go over all the issues on the agenda. And then we proceed from there to an anteroom right in front of the Oval Office to talk about what are going to be the messages, what are the kind of things we’re going to want to emphasize?
“Then we go in to see the president, we present to him and somebody writes a speech. Then he gets up and ad libs on his speech. And then we’re up there to try and answer questions.”
Asked how often he disagreed with the president, Dr Fauci said: “I don’t disagree in the substance. It is expressed in a way that I would not express it, because it could lead to some misunderstanding about what the facts are about a given subject.”
He was also asked about a moment on Friday when Trump joked about the “deep state department” and the doctor was seen to smile ruefully then rub his brow and jaw. It became an internet meme.
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Dr Fauci declined to comment.
He was also asked about Trump’s decision to refer to the coronavirus, the scientific name of which is Covid-19, as the “Chinese virus”. Would he ever do the same?
“No.”
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