NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Dr. Anthony Fauci says he's not surprised that President Trump tested positive for COVID-19 after attending a White House event in late September.
At the Sept. 26 Rose Garden event to announce Trump's nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett, attendees including Kellyanne Conway, Chris Christie, first lady Melania Trump -- and of course, Trump himself -- did not wear masks nor social distance whatsoever, and they all ended up testing positive for the potentially-deadly virus, as did others who attended.
So was Fauci surprised Trump tested positive? "Absolutely not," he told CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook during a "60 Minutes" interview that aired Sunday. "I was worried that he was going to get sick when I saw him in a completely precarious situation of crowded, no separation between people, and almost nobody wearing a mask."
Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, continued, "When I saw that on TV, I said, 'Oh my goodness. Nothing good can come outta that, that's gotta be a problem.'
And the country's leading infectious diseases expert was right, obviously: it ended up being a superspreader.
Trump stayed three nights at Walter Reed Medical Center before returning to the White House.
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