“福奇去哪儿了？”最近，美国有很多人在社交媒体上问。

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自疫情暴发以来，美国顶级传染病学家、白宫疫情小组关键成员福奇在美国抗疫中扮演重要角色。新冠疫情在美国最初出现时，几乎到处都是福奇的身影——他是白宫每日疫情简报会上最受关注的专家，也常常与特朗普登上社交媒体的“热搜”。但随着特朗普政府推动解封，“抗疫队长”福奇以及白宫疫情小组便开始鲜少出现在公众面前……

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The White House’s coronavirus task force has all but vanished from public view as President Donald Trump pushes Americans to put the outbreak behind them and resume normal social and economic life. The task force was for several weeks a staple of Trump’s response to the pandemic. From March 4 until late April, the panel held nearly daily, televised briefings at the White House, many headlined by Trump. Its medical experts fanned out across TV networks to share guidance on curbing the spread of the virus.

据彭博社报道，福奇上次在白宫公开发言还是4月29日，在上次的新闻发布会上，他还表示要谨慎重启经济，不可操之过急。

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The task force is now reduced to weekly closed-door meetings with Vice President Mike Pence. Anthony Fauci, the top infectious disease expert in the government, hasn’t spoken publicly at the White House since April 29. In his last task force news conference, he cautioned that the country must “proceed in a very careful, measured way” to reopen.

但如今，白宫疫情小组也只是与副总统彭斯每周进行非公开的会议。6月5日，特朗普表示美国就业率有所回升，经济会比预期恢复得更快。特朗普和彭斯更是认为，就业率数据表明疫情最糟糕的时刻已经过去。

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On June 5, Trump said at the White House that he expects the U.S. economy to recover from the coronavirus outbreak even faster than predicted after a surprise gain of millions of jobs. Both Trump and Pence framed the jobs data as a signal that the worst of the virus had passed.

而据美国医药新闻网站“STAT”6月1日报道，福奇在接受采访时向记者承认，最近几周，他和特朗普的会面“大幅减少”。他表示，与特朗普见面频率减少与疫情小组会议减少有关。

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在采访中，福奇如此说道：

“我们过去每天都有特别工作组会议，包括周六和周日。在特别工作组会议之后，我们有75%的概率会和总统见面。所以大约一个月前，我和总统大约一周见上四次面。”

“We used to have task force meetings every single day, including Saturday and Sunday, and about 75% of the time after the task force meeting we’d meet with the president. So I was meeting with him four times a week back, a month or so ago.”

“但正如你可能注意到的那样，工作组会议最近举行得不那么频繁了。当然，我与总统的会面也大大减少了。”

“But as you probably noticed, the task force meetings have not occurred as often lately. And certainly my meetings with the president have been dramatically decreased.”

而近日在接受美国华盛顿WTOP电台采访时，福奇还表示，当前的抗议对于新冠病毒传播而言，是个“完美的场景”。

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特朗普先前接受美国媒体采访时曾说，福奇是个好人，但自己与福奇有很多分歧。(Anthony is a good person, a very good person. I've disagreed with him.)

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据新华社报道，尽管福奇曝光度降低了，疫情可并没有在美国消失。美国依然是全球新冠确诊病例和死亡病例最多的国家，各地疫情数据仍在不断上升。

综合来源：Bloomberg、Stat News、Wtop News、新华社、海客新闻、观察者网