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法里斯·塔尼奥斯是CBSNews.com的新闻编辑，负责撰写、编辑新闻稿件并追踪突发新闻。此前他曾在西海岸多所地方电视台担任数字新闻制作人。
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特朗普政府时期的高级卫生官员之一杰伊·巴塔查里亚博士指责美国国家过敏和传染病研究所前所长安东尼·福奇博士在新冠疫情期间滥用职权。
“坦白说，他滥用了媒体和有权势的政客赋予他的权力，”巴塔查里亚在周三接受CBS新闻首席记者马特·古特曼采访时表示。巴塔查里亚目前同时担任美国国立卫生研究院院长和美国疾病控制与预防中心代理主任。
巴塔查里亚称，福奇在疫情期间的“核心滥用行为”是“压制科学辩论”，并且“贬低那些与他意见相左的科学家，包括我本人以及其他许许多多的人，仅仅因为他们与他持不同意见这一‘罪过’”。
疫情期间，时任斯坦福大学医学院教授的巴塔查里亚公开批评联邦政府的抗疫应对措施，并明确反对封锁措施和口罩强制令。
在采访中，巴塔查里亚对福奇在疫情期间的主导角色提出异议。“你知道，他是一家研究机构的负责人，并非公共卫生部门的主管，但他表现得仿佛自己就是美国公共卫生的最高负责人，”他说道。
当被指出特朗普政府在疫情初期曾非正式地将福奇提拔到这一角色时，巴塔查里亚反驳称，福奇“绝对有必要”清晰地传达“已知和未知的信息”，“你不能凭借自身专业知识，逾越自己实际应有的职责范围”。
此次指控发布数小时前，福奇刚在传票传唤下出席参议院国土安全委员会听证会。
在宣读开场陈述后，福奇就所有问题援引了第五修正案权利，他表示之所以这么做，是因为委员会主席、共和党参议员兰德·保罗试图“逼迫我说一些任何能证明他反复公开宣称的、用他的话来说我‘最终会锒铛入狱’的说法是正确的内容”。
上周末，长期批评福奇的保罗公布了福奇在担任NIAID所长期间疫情期间撰写的1000多页日记手稿。福奇在该职位任职近四十年后，于2022年退休。
巴塔查里亚表示，他支持公布福奇的日记手稿，并指出这些内容“一直保存在政府服务器上”。
“这些内容反映出一个对美国乃至全世界所有人的生活都产生了巨大影响的人，”这位CDC代理主任说道。“我认为公布这些笔记符合公众利益。”
巴塔查里亚认为，福奇在疫情期间的公开言论与他的日记内容存在矛盾。
“他私下里向权势极大的人士提供所有建议时的所思所想，与他在公开场合展现的形象大相径庭，”巴塔查里亚说道。
他以福奇在2020年初建议关闭学校为例。
“在我看来，他做出关闭学校的决定，与当时实际的证据相悖，”巴塔查里亚说。“……他在公开场合表现得十分笃定，但结果显示，他在自己的日记里甚至都没有这种把握。”
作为联邦政府首席传染病专家，福奇并没有直接权力强制实施防疫限制措施或关闭学校，但他的言论对联邦、州和地方官员具有影响力。
在2024年6月接受《CBS晨间新闻》采访时，福奇表示，他认为最初的学校关闭措施是“正确的选择”，但同时也承认“让学校停课一年并非好主意”。
“如果你回头看当时的采访，我一直在说‘关闭酒吧，开放学校。尽快、尽可能安全地恢复学校教学’，”他说道。
新冠疫情起源争议
在新冠病毒可能的起源问题辩论中，巴塔查里亚表示，他认为病毒极有可能起源于中国武汉的一处实验室。这一问题此前已被广泛研究，但尚未形成明确共识，许多科学家认为，病毒从动物自然溢出到人类的可能性更大。
“我们无法百分之百确定，但根据我看到的证据，病毒似乎非常有可能起源于中国的一处实验室，”巴塔查里亚说道。
当被问及是否认为福奇就新冠疫情及其起源向美国民众撒谎时，巴塔查里亚表示：“我认为福奇博士在新冠疫情起源问题上的角色比他此前在公开声明中所透露的要复杂得多。至于是否撒谎，我将留给其他人去评判。”
福奇长期以来一直坚称，他对病毒起源的研究持开放态度，并否认淡化该问题或误导公众。
Acting CDC director says Fauci “abused the place of power” during the COVID pandemic
July 29, 2026 / 8:27 PM EDT / CBS News
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One of the Trump administration’s top health officials, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, is accusing Dr. Anthony Fauci, the longtime former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, of an abuse of power during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“He frankly abused the place of power that he had been given both by the media and by powerful politicians,” Bhattacharya told CBS News chief correspondent Matt Gutman in an interview Wednesday. Bhattacharya currently serves as both director of the National Institutes of Health and acting director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Bhattacharya alleged that Fauci’s “primary abuse” during the pandemic was that he “shut down scientific debate” and “denigrated scientists that disagreed with him, including myself and many, many others, simply for the sin of disagreeing with him.”
During the pandemic, Bhattacharya, then a professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, was publicly critical of the federal government’s response and was vocal in his opposition to lockdowns and mask mandates.
In the interview, Bhattacharya took issue with Fauci’s leading role during the pandemic. “You know, he was the head of a research institute, he wasn’t the head of public health, yet he acted as if he were the head of public health in this country,” he said.
When it was noted the first Trump administration had informally elevated Fauci into that role at the pandemic’s onset, Bhattacharya countered that it was “absolutely imperative” that Fauci “convey clearly what is known and what is not known, that you don’t step beyond the role that you actually have based on the expertise that you have.”
The accusations Wednesday came hours after Fauci’s appearance before the Senate Homeland Security Committee under subpoena.
After reading an opening statement, Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment rights on all questions, saying he did so because the chairman, Republican Sen. Rand Paul, was attempting “to get me to say something, anything, that could vindicate his repeated public pledges that I end up, in his words, quote, ‘behind bars,’ unquote.”
Over the weekend, Paul, a longtime Fauci critic, released a trove of more than 1,000 pages of diary entries that Fauci wrote during his time as NIAID director during the pandemic. After nearly four decades in the post, Fauci retired in 2022.
Bhattacharya said he supported the release of Fauci’s journal entries and noted they had been “kept on government servers.”
“They reflect somebody who had a tremendous impact on the lives of every single person in the country, and in fact in the world,” the acting CDC director said. “I think it’s in the public interest for those notes to be released.”
Bhattacharya argued there was a contradiction between Fauci’s public statements during the pandemic and his journal entries.
“The way he was thinking in private regarding all of the advice he was giving to tremendously powerful people, and what he showed in public, were very different,” Bhattacharya said.
As an example, Bhattacharya pointed to Fauci’s recommendation in early 2020 that schools be closed.
“He was making decisions about closing schools, in my view, against what the actual evidence was saying at the time,” Bhattacharya said. “… He conveyed a certainty that it turns out in his diary he didn’t even feel himself.”
As the federal government’s top infectious disease expert, Fauci didn’t have any direct power to impose restrictions or close schools, but his words carried weight with federal, state and local officials.
In a June 2024 interview with “CBS Mornings,” Fauci said he believed the initial school closures were “the right thing,” but agreed that keeping schools shuttered “for a year was not a good idea.”
“If you go back and look at the YouTube, I kept on saying, ‘Close the bars, open the schools. Open the schools as quickly and as safely as you possibly can,’” he said.
COVID origins controversy
Regarding the debate over COVID’s possible origins, Bhattacharya said he believes it likely originated in a lab in Wuhan, China. It is an issue that has been studied extensively with no clear consensus, and many scientists believe the evidence suggests a natural spillover of the virus from animals to humans is more likely.
“We don’t know for certain, but it seems really quite likely, given the evidence that I’ve seen, that it originated in a Chinese lab,” Bhattacharya said.
Asked whether he thought Fauci lied to the American people about COVID and its origins, Bhattacharya said, “I think that Dr. Fauci’s role in the COVID origins is much more complicated than he led on in his public statements earlier. Lie, I’ll leave for other people to say one way or the other.”
Fauci has long insisted he kept an open mind on research into the virus’ origins and denied downplaying it or misleading the public.