he Dr Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and an infectious disease expert for the past four decades, said Monday night that CNBC’s Shepard Smith was These five things are more important than ever to do: wear a mask, socialize, avoid crowded spaces, do things outdoors as much as possible, and wash your hands frequently.
“I think we are facing a lot of problems,” Fauci said. “We now have an infection base that varies between 40,000 and 50,000 per day. It’s a bad place when you go in cooler autumn and colder winter. In addition, we would like to see the percentage of positivity decrease. More than 215,910 people in the United States have died from COVID-19.
Public health experts have also warned of a ‘double demism’ of COVID-19 and seasonal flu as the United States enters flu season, and urged Americans to get vaccinated against the flu. influenza. They fear that hospitals will be overwhelmed with cases of coronavirus and flu and that people will not be able to distinguish their symptoms.
The doctor said it was not about shutting down or fully opening up the economy. “We’re not talking about shutting down anything; we’re talking about using public health measures like a vehicle, or a gateway, to keep the country open, to keep the economy going. It is not an obstacle.
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Smith asked Fauci about President Donald Trump’s call for Governor Andrew Cuomo to open New York. “This all-or-nothing phenomenon, either staying closed or, you know, throwing caution to the wind, it doesn’t work. And we have shown that it doesn’t work, ”Fauci said. “So the prudent way and the prudent way that we know will actually open up to us, and we will do it safely.”
When Smith said Fauci had been sidelined as a member of the White House coronavirus task force, the doctor said he would not give up. “This is an epidemic of historic proportions, like we haven’t seen in 102 years,” he said, referring to the 1918 flu. “There’s no possibility for me to give up and go no matter what. “
Some 500 million people, or one-third of the world’s population, were infected with the Spanish flu of 1918. About 50 million people died worldwide, with an estimated 675,000 deaths occurring in the United States, according to the Centers for Disaster Control and Prevention. The two pandemics caused an economic contraction, reducing both gross domestic product and employment.
Although the 1918 pandemic is forever associated with Spain, this strain of H1N1 was discovered earlier in Germany, France, the United Kingdom and the United States. But like the Communist Party’s response to the first cases of COVID-19 in China, World War I censorship has buried or downplayed these reports. Multigenerational households were most at risk of contracting the flu and the 1918 coronavirus in 2020.
Fauci implored the young men to act responsibly. A young person may not get sick, but can pass the disease on to a vulnerable person. “It could be someone’s grandfather, it could be a woman getting chemotherapy for breast cancer, it could be an immunocompromised child. So we have to stop thinking that we exist in a vacuum, just for ourselves. We are all in there.”
“With the combination of a good vaccine paired with public health measures, we may be able to put this coronavirus outbreak behind us the way we left the original SARS behind and hopefully the way we put the MERS behind, the Middle East respiratory system behind us, ”said t he senior epidemiologist.
Fauci said he was hopeful that a vaccine for the coronavirus could be developed in early 2021, but has repeatedly said that a vaccine is unlikely to provide 100% immunity; He said the best realistic result, based on other vaccines, would be 70% to 75% effective. The measles vaccine, he said, is one of the most effective at providing 97% immunity.