mark fav to support my daily news bits aycl. us surgeon general jerome adams defended the accuracy of covid data published by the us centers for disease control and prevention after trump attacked the agency tabulation methods also anthony fauci said the deaths and jampacked hospitals and stressed out healthcare workers are real trump who leaves office on jan has frequently downplayed the severity of the pandemic he has also scorned and ignored federal recommendations for containing the spread fauci and adams expressed optimism that the pace of vaccinating americans against the virus is accelerating after a slow start more than 4 million people have been inoculated since dec 14 with one of two vaccines