Dr. Anthony Fauci on efforts to slow the spread of coronavirus

[swing_voter]

Pretty good interview with America's #1 guy on infectious diseases. It's about 20mins long.

Trump tries to blame Obama for everything. lol

 

[JasperL]

Pretty good interview with America's #1 guy on infectious diseases. It's about 20mins long.

Trump tries to blame Obama for everything. lol

Yes, he needs to speak for the administration. Let Trump send out tweets about Hillary and his ratings and prayer day, and play golf about 6 days a week, bunkered in Mar-a-lago. We'd all be better off.

It's good for Fox to have him on as well. Of course unless the talking points have changed, Hannity and the other hacks will be actively undermining his sober message on Monday evening.

 

[PTF]

Fauci's scare tactics but America is dealing with this virus.
As for blaming obama ?
This dude knew about this virus taking hold in China and refused to address the upcoming situation. As a dictator who never cared about our country so let the next Republican President deal with it at our expense.

 

[JasperL]

Fauci's scare tactics but America is dealing with this virus.
As for blaming obama ?
This dude knew about this virus taking hold in China and refused to address the upcoming situation. As a dictator who never cared about our country so let the next Republican President deal with it at our expense.

Just so we're clear, Trump is the dictator, right?

 

[PTF]

Just so we're clear, Trump is the dictator, right?

Wrong...I was referring to obama. Clear ?

 

[Hari Seldon]

Wrong...I was referring to obama. Clear ?

He must be clairvoyant. LOL! Dumbest post of the day.

 

[JasperL]

Wrong...I was referring to obama. Clear ?

OK, well that's stupid. Sorry to disturb you.

 

[Nickyjo]

Just so we're clear, Trump is the dictator, right?

The clear rationality of the post suggests Dr Fauci could be the dictator... or maybe Tom Hanks...

 

[Lovebug]

Interestingly, his comments on the crowded airports

FAUCI: Yes, I mean we'd like to not see crowds like that. I think what people need to understand, if you're an American citizen, if you are a family member, that you can get back. You don't need to rush back. You'll be able to get back.

On the severity of CV 19 vs flu

FAUCI: Bottom line it's going to get worse. The flu has a mortality of 0.1 percent. This has a mortality of 10 times that.

FAUCI: Well, yes. I mean, it just is. And we've got to face that fact. We've got to be realistic.

I mean, we've got to realize -- and I said that at the hearing, that things are going to get worse before they get better but the kinds of things we're doing now will hopefully mitigate that. I showed that curve -- (CROSSTALK) FAUCI: But that's important because to think that right now, everything is going to be OK if you don't do anything that's absolutely incorrect. We've got a really always be ahead of the curve. I mean, I was -- I say now in a way that people can understand, I'd like to be -- the fact that we're criticized for being over reactive because when you're dealing with a virus outbreak, you are always behind where you think you are. So, therefore, you've got to jump ahead and stay ahead of the curve.

On blaming

WALLACE: The president says the Obama administration set up rules and regulations that made it impossible to do testing. You were in the same position under the Obama administration. Is that true? Is that what stopped it? FAUCI: You know, Chris, to be honest with you, I'm not sure what regulations or what it was that they're talking about. I really mean that. I mean, I'm trying to figure out what it is that these things were in place that were able to or inhibiting. But one thing that I do know now is that the ability to get a test had some regulatory and other restrictions on it that the FDA now has just gotten rid of. WALLACE: I mean, they could have done that day one. FAUCI: Well, yes, they could have. But the fact is it wasn't. So I tend to -- like to -- instead of looking back, look at where we're going.

On speculating

How worried are you that this virus is going to overwhelm hospitals, not just beds, but ventilators? We only have 160,000 ventilators. And could we be in a situation where you have to ration who gets the bed, who gets the ventilator? FAUCI: OK. So let me put it in a way that it doesn't get taken out of context. When people talk about modeling where outbreaks are going, the modeling is only as good as the assumptions you put into the model. And what they do, they have a worst-case scenario, a best-case scenario, and likely where it's going to be. If we have a worst-case scenario, we've got to admit it, we could be overwhelmed. Are we going to have a worst-case scenario? I don't think so. I hope not.

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