According to John Hopkins University, the North American nation has over 3.3 million confirmed cases and 135,000 deaths from the disease. The figures have upset the Trump administration, who now blames the US infectious disease chief of making erroneous comments and changing his advice often.

The health expert's statement has contradicted the US President several times, something that hasn't gone down too well with Trump and his management.

Fauci also attributed the government decision to relax norms and open facilities with the recent surges.

He told FiveThirtyEight on July 9, "As a country, when you compare us to other countries, I don't think you can say we're doing great. I mean, we're just not."

The statement contradicted Trump's claim of the US recovering well from the deadly disease.

The US President's adviser Peter Navarro told CBS News that he listens to the health expert 'with caution', further proving the ongoing dispute between the administration and Fauci.

The economic advisor to Trump said, "When I warned in late January in a memo of a possibly deadly pandemic, Fauci was telling the media not to worry," adding that the doctor was always wrong about things.

Now Fauci is saying that a falling mortality rate doesn't matter when it is the single most important statistic to help guide the pace of our economic reopening," Navarro said.

Meanwhile, Trump tried to cut down the tension a bit when he told reporters on Monday that he likes the disease chief, though he doesn't agree with him always.

"I have a very good relationship with Dr Fauci. I've had for a long time - right from the beginning," Trump told reporters at the White House

I find him to be a very nice person. I don't always agree with him. I get along with him very well. I like him personally," the US President added.

However, the President's comments fail to dispel the feud as other White House officials have accused Fauci of accessing the situation from 'a very narrow public health point of view'.

Assistant US health secretary, Admiral Brett Giroir, who is also a member of the virus task force, told NBC News on Sunday, "Dr Fauci is not 100% right and he also doesn't necessarily, he admits that, have the whole national interest in mind."

Fauci, who has been in the limelight for a while now, was seen defending himself during a July 10 interview with the Financial Times.

"I have a reputation, as you probably have figured out, of speaking the truth at all times and not sugar-coating things. And that may be one of the reasons why I haven't been on television very much lately," he said.

Speaking about his interaction with the US President, Fauci said he hasn't met Trump in person since June 2 and has not briefed him for the last two months.

The feud is likely to play a major part in the upcoming US presidential elections. According to a A New York Times/Siena College poll, while 67 percent of the people trusted Dr. Fauci with his advice, a mere 26 percent placed their trust in Trump.

However, one can argue that the expert has not been great with his prediction, but, a little bit of consideration can help understand why.

With a little less than 100 cases across the United States of America, Fauci said on a February 29 Today morning show that people didn't need to alter their lifestyle to cope with the virus.

"Although the risk is low now, you don't need to change anything you're doing, when you start to see community spread, this could change," he said.

As infections spread, Fauci did advocate the use of facial masks for infected individuals to stop the spread of the infection.

The US President, on the other hand, was adamant about not wearing masks in public, thereby opposing the health advisor, right from the beginning.

An expert at making U-turns, Trump did the classic 'better late than never' as he appeared wearing a facial mask in public, months after the disease was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, just another 'advisory' body the US President has a feud with!

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