The nation’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, called a recent White House event a “superspreader.”

Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said that the event, a Rose Garden announcement from President Trump about his decision to nominate Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, was punctuated by a lack of proper coronavirus precautions.

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