Dr. Anthony Fauci, someone millions of Americans are trusting to help them deal with the coronavirus crisis, has been given increased security after threats to his safety, a source tells ABC News.
Dr. Anthony Fauci has been the subject of online conspiracies about the threat of coronavirus and has been recommended to get a security detail.coronavirus crisis
In recent days, on the recommendation of the U.S. Marshals Service, the department approved a special deputization request from HHS for more than a half dozen HHS inspector general special agents to provide protective services for Fauci. Another factor for approving the protection, one official added, was that Fauci in recent weeks has also been approached in public by admirers who were getting too close for comfort, asking for things like autographs and selfies, and there was a desire to get a protective bubble around him for social distancing purposes as well as security.
As Fauci has become one of the more prominent national faces for the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus, some in far-right or fringe conspiracy websites have baselessly sought to cast him as a member of the 'deep-state' resistance out to undermine Trump.
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