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… is from page 61 of Scott Atlas’s important 2021 book, A Plague Upon Our House: My Fight at the Trump White House to Stop COVID From Destroying America [2] (original emphasis):
Meanwhile, the [Trump White House Covid-19] Task Force, particularly Dr. Fauci in his media appearances, kept focusing on what might happen, stressing what we didn’t know with absolute certainty, rather than underscoring what we did know about the virus based on months of evidence, including the most fundamental biology. The Task Force was failing to communicate any clinical medical perspective, never clarifying that rare complications are just that – rare. Even worse, the media was sensationalizing every new piece of information. The panic itself had become another contagion.