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I don't recall The Lancet Journal study being retracted.I might have at the time heard that it was retracted, but it wasn't the only paper that was on hydroxychloroquine, my — I mean, I'm thinking back, then, my — my opinion of the effect of hydroxychloroquine was based on accumulating data from a number of studies. I don't recall specifically what those studies are now.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The claim, based on no data, juxtaposed on clear-cut clinical data showing that hydroxychloroquine does not work, if one propagates this concept that hydroxychloroquine is highly effective and people take it based on that information, which is incorrect, yes, that would be misinformation or even disinformation that could lead people to take a drug that would not help them, that could possibly hurt them.
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My — I mean, I'm thinking back, then, my — my opinion of the effect of hydroxychloroquine was based on accumulating data from a number of studies. I don't recall specifically what those studies are now.
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We keep a completely open mind as to what the origin is, having said that, if you look at the examination by highly qualified international scientists with no political agendas — they've published in peer-reviewed journals — that all accumulated evidence, particularly relating to the Chinese bringing into the Wuhan market animals from the wild that should not have been there … the evidence is quite strong that this is a natural occurrence.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
If you go back, and I ask anybody to go back over the number of times that I've said, we've got to do everything we can to keep the schools open. No one plays that clip, they always come back and say Fauci was responsible for closing schools.
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As soon as I heard it, I said, Holy - This is going to go bad, why don’t I bow out of this one.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There is a misunderstanding that because children do not get as severe disease as a cohort, in general, as the elderly individuals and those with underlying conditions — we still lost 1,400 children, so, although you have to be aware and not deny that there are deleterious consequences for prolonged periods of time for keeping children out of school, remember, the safety of children is also important.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I did not like the idea that, in order to maintain my personal and scientific integrity, and in order to fulfill my obligation to the country, as a public health official and as a scientist, I had to publicly disagree with several of the things that [former President Donald Trump], who they follow to the last word, was saying.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If the country doesn't want to get vaccinated, the country doesn't want to wear a mask in an indoor setting, there's not much the president can do about that.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The Southern Hemisphere has had a pretty bad flu season, and The Southern Hemisphere came on early, influenza -- as we all have experienced over many years -- can be a serious disease, particularly when you have a bad season.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think that, especially for people who are at significant risk for progression, it's important to take Paxlovid, a percentage of those people -- yet to be determined -- are going to have rebound. But in almost all of those people, the rebound is going to be an inconvenience. And that inconvenience, really, is not as important as the potential of avoiding hospitalization or death.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
You have to really go by the circumstances that you're in, the President is in a position to be able to test every day and wait till The President becomes negative before The President goes back. But that doesn't mean that everyone has to do that.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Immunity wanes, whether that's immunity following infection or immunity following vaccine, even though the immediate protection following infection or vaccine is generally good protection, if you were infected with BA.1, you really don't have a lot of good protections against BA.4/5.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Variants will continue to emerge. The virus circulates globally and in this country. We should not let it disrupt our lives, but we cannot deny that it is a reality that we need to deal with.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We need to keep the levels of virus to the lowest possible level, and that is our best defense. If a virus is not very robustly replicating and spreading, it gives it less of a chance of a mutation, which gives it less of a chance of the evolving of another variant.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I turned positive about two weeks ago, with very minimal symptoms. When they increased, given my age, I went on Paxlovid for five days.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
It was sort of what people are referring to as a Paxlovid rebound.
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Over the next day or so I started to feel really poorly, much worse than in the first go around.
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I certainly hope so, because we are not going to get an answer that is a definitive answer — I mean, even if they do cooperate, we may not do that.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Rochelle Walensky have to be consistent, always stick with the facts and the evidence and the data. That was one of the issues that obviously arose when I was part of the Coronavirus taskforce in the prior administration.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We're not over the pandemic. Don't let anybody get the misinterpretation that the pandemic is over, but what we are in is a different phase of the pandemic, a phase that's a transition phase, hopefully headed toward more of a control where you can actually get back to some form of normality without total disruption of society, economically, socially, school-wise, etc.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
In general, the risk is low, but I made a personal assessment. I'm 81 years old, and if I get infected, I have a much higher risk.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Each of us, in our own personal way, has to make an assessment of what risk you're willing to accept about getting infected, in general, the risk is low, but I made a personal assessment. I'm 81 years old, and if I get infected, I have a much higher risk.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We are certainly, right now, in this country, out of the pandemic phase, namely, we don't have 900,000 new infections a day and tens and tens and tens of thousands of hospitalizations and thousands of deaths. We are at a low level right now. So, if Anthony Fauci're saying are we out of the pandemic phase in this country ? We are.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Pandemic means a widespread, throughout the world infection that spreads rapidly among people, so, if you look at the global situation, there is no doubt this pandemic is still ongoing.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
It didn't meet the criteria for efficacy, there was never a safety issue, but it didn't meet the criteria, which then had them go back and do a study with a third dose as a part of the primary regimen.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Trust me, I'm not here to give Easter Bunny more Covid guidance. I'm not stupid enough to think Easter Bunny're going to follow it, all I'll say is that Covid cases are a lot like Jesus -- they've risen again !
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Those conditions are also present in the United States, so, I would not be surprised if we see an uptick in cases. Whether that uptick becomes a surge where there are a lot more cases is difficult to predict.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think we should expect, David, that over the next couple of weeks, we are going to see an uptick in cases -- and hopefully there is enough background immunity so that we don't wind up with a lot of hospitalizations.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think we should expect... that over the next couple of weeks, we are going to see an uptick in cases. And hopefully there is enough background immunity so that we don't wind up with a lot of hospitalizations.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
[T]he Chinese are very closed, in a way of being very reluctant, particularly when you have a disease that evolves in their country, they become extremely secretive, even though there’s no reason to be secretive, i think they were very concerned and maybe embarrassed that the virus evolved from their country but there’s nothing wrong with that.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I don't want to use the word ‘lockdowns. That has a charged element to it. But, I believe that we must keep our eye on the pattern of what we're seeing with infections, having said that, we need to be prepared for the possibility that we would have another variant that would come along. And then, if things change and we do get a variant that does give us an uptick in cases and hospitalization, we should be prepared and flexible enough to pivot toward going back – at least temporarily – to a more rigid type of restrictions, such as requiring masks indoors.
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I would not be surprised at all, if we do see somewhat of an uptick, i don't really see, unless something changes dramatically, that there would be a major surge.
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What the UK is not seeing, and that's good news, is an increase of severity or an increase in the use of intensive care unit beds or an increase in the all-cause mortality.
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If in fact, we do see a turnaround and a resurgence, we have to be able to pivot and go back to any degree of mitigation that is commensurate with what the situation is.
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The overall mortality is actually down. It’s a very interesting situation where the cases are going up, but it does not, at this point in time, appear to be any degree of severity.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's not too soon if you observe the caveat that's associated with that. And the caveat is, we need to be flexible, and if in fact we do see a turnaround and a resurgence, we have to be able to pivot and go back to any degree of mitigation that is commensurate with what the situation is, we can't just say that' we are done now ; we're going to move on.' We've got to be able to be flexible, because we are dealing with a dynamic situation.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We generally follow what goes on in the UK by about two to three weeks. So we've been paying close attention to what's going on there, what they're seeing is an uptick in cases that are related both to the increased transmissibility of the virus, the waning of immunity, but also the fact that they're opening up the way we are here and the way other countries in Europe and other parts of the world we're pulling back on mask mandates and things like that.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The issue with hospitalization is a little bit more puzzling, because although the hospitalizations are going up, it is very clear their use of ICU beds has not increased, so are the numbers of hospitalizations a real reflection of Covid cases, or is there a difficulty deciphering between people coming into the hospital with Covid or because of Covid ?
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Without a doubt, opening up society and having people mingle indoors is clearly something that is a contributor, as well as overall waning immunity, which means we've really got to stay heads-up and keep our eye on the pattern here, so United States's the reason why we're watching this very carefully.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
So the way you protect them is to surround the children, to the extent possible, with people who are vaccinated and boosted so that you have somewhat a veil of protection around them.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
It’s understandable why people want to take masks off the kids. But, right now, given the level of activity that we have, it is risky.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It will depend on who you are, but if you are a normal, healthy 30-year-old person with no underlying conditions, you might need a booster only every four or five years.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
As we get out of the full-blown pandemic phase, which we are certainly heading out of, these decisions will increasingly be made on a local level rather than centrally decided or mandated, there will also be more people making their own decisions on how they want to deal with the virus.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This should not be confused with the fact that for many immunocompromised people, already a second booster shot, namely a fourth dose of an mRNA, is recommended because of what we know about their poor response to the initial regimen.
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We have to be totally honest that we don't know, we believe that we are now going in the right direction.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Not as often as you might think -- well, I don't know how often people think you talk to the President or vice president, but they're pretty busy, you want to jump anyhow, and they're just giving you a direction on how high.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The FDA is looking at the data very carefully, and in their typical fashion, they will be very careful in scrutinizing the data and making a recommendation of the decision based on that data.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
It is one of the most humbling of all the recognition that I’ve gotten, i’ve lived in Washington the last 50 years and the Smithsonian Portrait Gallery is an iconic place in my mind. It makes me feel humbled and almost embarrassed to be in the same building with the people whose portraits are there.
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Certainly, you're going to see the antibody levels go down – that's natural, but there's an element of the immune response — B cell memory and T cell responses — where, even though you do see a diminution of antibody levels, it is quite conceivable, and I hope it's true, that the third shot boost will give a much greater durability of protection.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
But before we make that decision about yet again another boost, we want to determine clearly what the durability of protection is of that regular boost, that third shot that we're talking about.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We do not know that and I think we have to be openly honest about that, when I talk about the pandemic I put it into five phases. The truly pandemic phase where the whole world is really very negatively impacted – as we are right now. Then there's the deceleration of the pandemic. Then there's control. There's elimination and eradication.
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When I talk about the pandemic I put it into five phases. The truly pandemic phase where the whole world is really very negatively impacted – as we are right now. Then there's the deceleration of the pandemic. Then there's control. There's elimination and eradication.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It is very difficult to predict what a new normal is going to be until we get ourselves out of this pandemic phase that we're in.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The sheer volume of infections because of its profound transmissibility will mean that many more children will get infected.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I don’t know why you’re asking me that question, my financial disclosure is public knowledge and has been for the last 37 years or so, 35 years that I’ve been director.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I have threats upon my life, harassment of my family, and my children, with obscene phone calls because people are lying about me.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
So, if we’re going to look ahead at what happens when this peaks and it ultimately goes down — as I’ve said on previous pressers here from the White House: that we’re not going to eradicate this; we’ve only done that with smallpox.
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Don't take this as a signal that we can pull back from the recommendations that you just heard from Dr. [Rochelle] Walensky – about the need for vaccination, for boostering, for wearing masks and all the other CDC recommendations.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
What the CDC has said -- and it gets misinterpreted -- they're saying, wearing any mask is better than no mask at all, but there is a gradation of capability of preventing you from getting infected and from you transmitting it to someone else. So we should be wearing the best possible masks that we can get. That's a fact.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
If you can tolerate an N95, do it. If you want to get a KN95, fine. And what the CDC has said -- and it gets misinterpreted -- but they're saying, wearing any mask is better than no mask at all, but there is a gradation of capability of preventing you from getting infected and from you transmitting it to someone else. So we should be wearing the best possible masks that we can get. That's a fact.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Omicron, with its extraordinary, unprecedented degree of efficiency of transmissibility, will ultimately find just about everybody.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
You keep coming back to personal attacks on me that have absolutely no relevance to reality.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
And they asked the police to ask him where he was going, and he was going to Washington, D.C., to kill Dr. Fauci.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
So you are making a catastrophic epidemic for your political gain.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If you are asymptomatic, and you're infected, we want to get people back to the jobs, particularly those with essential jobs, to keep our society running smoothly.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think United States's too premature to be talking about a fourth dose, one of the things that we're going to be following very carefully is what the durability of the protection is following the third dose of an mRNA vaccine.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The CDC is very well aware there has been some pushback about that, looking at it again, there may be an option in that that testing could be a part of that. And I think we’re going to be hearing more about that in the next day or so from the CDC.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
You're right, people are getting concerned about why not test people at that time.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
NIH-funded studies that are ongoing right now in both mouse and hamsters confirm the lesser virulence in the animal model. And, studies here at the Vaccine Research Center at NIH, in the nonhuman primate model, are ongoing and will await results of that.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
What we hope to get it at is such a low level that even though it isn't completely eliminated, it doesn't have a major impact on public health or on the way we run our lives, so if we get more people vaccinated globally and more people vaccinated now, hopefully within a reasonable period of time, we will get to that point where it might occasionally be up and down in the background, but it won't dominate us the way it's doing right now.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I would imagine, given the size of our country, and the diversity of vaccination versus not vaccination, that it likely will be more than a couple of weeks, probably by the end of January, I would think.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
And what we mean by that: if a child goes into the hospital, they automatically get tested for COVID and they get counted as a COVID-hospitalized individual, when, in fact, they may go in for a broken leg or appendicitis or something like that. So it’s over counting the number of children who are, quote, hospitalized with COVID as opposed to because of COVID.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Why we emphasize the importance of booster shots — the anti-Omicron activity is about 20 - to 40-fold higher in sera from boosted vaccines versus the peak in individuals who had a two-dose vaccine.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Bottom line message here is that boosters bring back up that degree of protection to a level that is approximating what it was before.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If Leana Wen plans are to go to a 40-to-50-person New Year's Eve party with all the bells and whistles and everybody hugging and kissing and wishing each other a Happy New Year ? I would strongly recommend that, this year, we do not do that.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The tests are still worthwhile. Don't let anybody think that the FDA was saying that tests are no longer good. They say they're less sensitive now. They never were 100 % sensitive, what the FDA is saying today is that when you look at Omicron and its ability to detect Omicron, some of the tests have a diminution, further, of the sensitivity, but they still say the tests are useful and should be used.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
There's no way I’m going to walk away from this until we get this under control, i mean, that's the purpose of what we do. That's -- that's our mission in life. In the middle of it, I’m not going to walk away.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
With the sheer volume of new cases... one of the things we want to be careful of is that we don't have so many people out.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
They say they're less sensitive now. They never were 100% sensitive, what the FDA is saying today is that when you look at Omicron and its ability to detect Omicron, some of the tests have a diminution further of the sensitivity, but they still say the tests are useful and should be used.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
With the sheer volume of new cases that we are having and that we expect to continue with Omicron, one of the things we want to be careful of is that we don't have so many people out, if you are asymptomatic and you are infected, we want to get people back to the jobs -- particularly those with essential jobs -- to keep our society running smoothly.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's been a very, very strong run on testing, obviously, not making any excuses for it : we should have had more tests available. But hopefully now as we get into the first couple of weeks in January, that'll get much better.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
You know, testing has always been an issue, it's been a very, very strong run on testing.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
There will be other years to do that, but not this year.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Even though we're pleased by the evidence from multiple countries that it looks like there is a lesser degree of severity, we've got to be careful that we don't get complacent about that because it might still lead to a lot of hospitalizations in the United States.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We're particularly worried about those who are in that unvaccinated class, that you know, tens and tens of millions of Americans who are eligible for vaccination who have not been vaccinated, those are the vulnerable ones when you have a virus that is extraordinarily effective in getting to people and effecting them the way Omicron is.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
A vaccine requirement for a person getting on the plane is just another level of getting people to have a mechanism that would spur them to get vaccinated; namely, you can't get on a plane unless you're vaccinated, which is just another one of the ways of getting requirements, whatever that might be.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
And that's the reason why people should, if they invite people over their home, essentially ask and maybe require that people show evidence that they are vaccinated, or give their honest and good faith word that they have been vaccinated.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If the protection is much more durable than the two-dose, non-boosted group, then we may go a significant period of time without requiring a fourth dose, so, I do think it's premature -- at least on the part of United States -- to be talking about a fourth dose.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think it's too premature to be talking about a fourth dose.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
One of the things that we're going to be following very carefully is what the durability of the protection is following the third dose of an mRNA vaccine.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Those are the kind of functions -- in the context of COVID and particularly in the context of omicron -- that you do not want to go to.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It has nothing to do with freedom, it has to do with protecting yourself and your family from a potentially deadly disease that has killed already over 800,000 Americans, but also relinquishing your societal responsibility to be part of the solution, instead of part of the problem.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I'm not sure exactly when that will happen, but I think people should not lose sight of the message that there's no doubt that if you want to be optimally protected, you should get your booster.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
That's certainly on the table. Right now, it is a bit of semantics.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
What the government has been doing now, and you’re going to be seeing the result of that, is making investments literally in billions of dollars to get anywhere between 200 million to 500 million tests available per month, which means there will be a lot of tests.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If you look at that data, the data are really quite impressive.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
When you look at the early data, it does appear that there is a diminution in the severity as expressed by hospitalization, the real question is, is that an inherent diminution of virulence of the virus or is it because there are so many people in the population who have already been infected ?
Found on CNN 2 years ago
It’s not clear whether that will need to be sooner. For those that are older, they’re immune suppressed. If you’ve been injected and boosted with a non-JJ vaccine in the last 60 to 90 days, you’ll be largely protected.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If you are vaccinated, and particularly if you are boosted, you're going to have to wear a mask on the plane anyway. That's a regulation. But be prudent and careful. When you go to the airport, particularly, that's an indoor congregate setting, i believe that if people follow the recommendations of the CDC about indoor masking, take the advice of getting vaccinated and getting boosted, we should be fine for the holidays, and we should enjoy it with our family and our friends.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
National Institute of Allergy has what we call a doubling time of about three days. And if you do the math on National Institute of Allergy, if you have just a couple of percentage of the isolates being Omicron, very soon it's going to be the dominant variant.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The vulnerable people are the people who have not been vaccinated, and I hope that the possibility that we're seeing -- that we're going to be getting a surge of Omicron, which is almost inevitable given its characteristic of high degree of transmissibility, we have the tools to be able to blunt this. We just need to implement them.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We are already in a Delta surge. I mean, the cases are going up, and then you have, looking over your shoulder, the Omicron variant, which we know from what's going on in South Africa and in the UK, is a highly transmissible virus.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
If we didn’t have these tools, I would be telling you to really, really be worried.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The cases are going up. We have an average of about 117,000 cases. We have an increase in the percentage of hospitalizations. Deaths are still over a thousand, then you have, looking over your shoulder, The Omicron variant, which we know, from what's going on in South Africa and in the UK, is The Omicron variant.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The message remains clear : If you are unvaccinated, get vaccinated, and particularly in the arena of Omicron, if you are fully vaccinated, get your booster shot.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
If it becomes necessary to get yet another boost, then we’ll just have to deal with it when that occurs.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I’m hoping from an immunological standpoint that that third shot of an mRNA and the second shot of a JJ will give a much greater durability of protection than just the six months or so that we’re seeing right now.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's tough to tell because the third shot of an mRNA could not only do what we absolutely know it does, is it dramatically increased the level of protection. But from an immunological standpoint, it could very well increase the durability of protection by things that you can't readily measure by the level of antibodies that you might have a maturation of the immune system that would prolong the durability.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Thus far, it does not look like there’s a great degree of severity to it, but we have really got to be careful before we make any determinations that it is less severe or it really doesn’t cause any severe illness, comparable to delta.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
That ban was done at a time when we were really in the dark – we had no idea about what was going on, except that there had been an explosion of cases of omicron in South Africa.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Just as I said and I'll say it again, if Monday Dr. Anthony Fauci have a vaccinated situation, enjoy the holidays with Monday Dr. Anthony Fauci family in a family setting.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Our experience with variants such as the Delta variant is that even though the vaccine isn't specifically targeted to the Delta variant, when you get a high enough level of an immune response, you get spillover protection, even against a variant that the vaccine wasn't specifically directed at, that's the reason why we feel even though we don't have a lot of data on it, there's every reason to believe that that kind of increase that you get with the boost would be helpful, at least in preventing severe disease of a variant like Omicron.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I certainly was not aware of his test positivity or negativity.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We knew that it was just a matter of time before the first case of omicron would be detected in the United States.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
That will give you a pretty good idea as to what the level of immune evasion is. That process will take likely two weeks or more, perhaps even sooner, depending upon how well the virus grows in the isolates that we get, and in those countries in which there are a lot of cases like South Africa, the computational biologists and the evolutionary biologists are going to be getting a good feel as to what the competition of this virus would be with Delta. Those are just a few of the things that will take a couple of weeks to a few weeks to learn.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
One of the things you do is you get the virus and you grow it or you put it into a modified form called a pseudovirus. And when you do that, you can then get convalescent plasma, monoclonal antibodies, as well as sera and antibodies that are induced by the vaccine to see if they neutralize the virus.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Right now it does not look like there's a big signal of a high degree of severity.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I have to laugh at that. I should be prosecuted? What happened on January 6, senator?
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If they get up and criticize science, nobody is going to know what they’re talking about. But if they get up and really aim their bullets at Tony Fauci, well, people could recognize there is a person there.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
They have a number of patients that they're following in the medical facilities, and they assured us that they would know probably in a matter of a week, a week and a half, as to whether or not we're dealing with something that, for the most part is more severe, equally as severe or less severe. It could be either of them, right now, it does not look like there's a big signal of a high degree of severity, but it's too early to tell.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
You know, it's unfortunate that South Africa has been sort of the epicenter, or at least a recognition of South Africa, but the good news is they are as good as it gets when it comes to South African scientists and public health people, so South African scientists'll be able to give us some very important information, hopefully within the next week or two.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
This is a clarion call as far as I'm concerned of saying let's put aside all of these differences that we have, and say, if you're not vaccinated, get vaccinated. If you're fully vaccinated, get boosted.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
If it looks like even at a high titer of antibody it doesn't, then what Anthony Fauci've got to do is Anthony Fauci've got to change and modify what the vaccine is going to be, which Anthony Fauci can do pretty easily.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We have not detected it yet, but when you have a virus that is showing this degree of transmissibility ... it almost invariably is ultimately going to go essentially all over.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Meet the Press. it clearly is giving indication that it has the capability of transmitting rapidly. That’s the thing that’s causing us now to be concerned.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
Anybody who’s looking at this carefully, realizes that there’s a distinct anti-science flavor to this, so if they get up and criticize science, nobody’s going to know what they’re talking about, but if they get up and really aim their bullets at Tony Fauci, well people can recognize that there’s a person there, so it’s easy to criticize, but they’re really criticizing science because I represent science.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Right now, we're getting the material together with our South African colleagues to get a situation where you could actually directly test it. So, right now you're talking about sort of like a red flag that this might be an issue -- but we don't know, you want to find out if in fact it does evade the vaccines that we're doing.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
You want to find out if in fact it does evade the vaccines that we're doing.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We don't know that for sure right now, this is really something that's in motion and we just arranged right now a discussion between our scientists and the South African scientists, a little bit later in the morning to really get the facts – because you're hearing a lot of things back and forth.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We want to find out, scientists to scientists, exactly what is going on, but it's something that has emerged in South Africa and seems to be spreading at a reasonably rapid rate, in the sense of when they do test positivity they're seeing it's a bit more widespread in South Africa than was originally felt a couple of days ago. So it's in a fluid motion. We're finding more about it and, literally, it's something that – in real time – we're learning more and more about.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Well, I mean, obviously as soon as we find out more information we'll make a decision as quickly as we possibly can.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
And if you're not [vaccinated], please be careful, get tested ... when you're getting together.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
If you're vaccinated, and hopefully you'll be boosted too, and your family is, you can enjoy a typical Thanksgiving meal, Thanksgiving holiday with your family. There's no reason not to do that.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
What we’re starting to see now is an uptick in hospitalizations among people who’ve been vaccinated but not boosted, it’s a significant proportion, but not the majority by any means.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We've got to start right now getting anybody who's eligible … to get them boosted, and, we've got realize that when you're in a situation where you're having 80-plus-thousand new cases a day, when you're in an indoor setting in which you don't know the vaccine status of the people in a congregate setting [indoors], you should wear a mask.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I have stood for always making science data and evidence, be what we guide ourselves by.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
No doubt masks make a difference, vaccinations are going to really make a big, big difference. I think a combination of these things, hopefully sometime in the future, we can not only get the kids back to school, but we can get rid of the masking situation. We have got to do it in a step-by-step fashion.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Senator, with all due respect, I disagree with so many of the thingsthat you've said.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It will be available for use once there's a hopefully positive vote from CDC. So, it could be as early as November fourth or fifth, that you can go into some locations and get your child vaccinated.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
You never want to get ahead of the FDA in their regulatory decisions, nor do you want to get ahead of the CDC and their advisers on what the recommended would be, but if you look at the data that's been made public and announced by the company, the data looked good as to the efficacy and the safety.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The mix and match really gives a good deal of flexibility to people in whatever it is that they want to choose, and the CDC, I am sure, will come out with some pretty clear recommendations depending upon what category you fit into.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
In an unlikely but conceivable turn of events, what if that scientist becomes infected with the virus, which leads to an outbreak and ultimately triggers a pandemic? Many ask reasonable questions: given the possibility of such a scenario – however remote – should the initial experiments have been performed and/or published in the first place, and what were the processes involved in this decision?, scientists working in this field might say – as indeed I have said – that the benefits of such experiments and the resulting knowledge outweigh the risks.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Much of the world, and in some respects including ourselves, are still in the pandemic phase.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It is going to be very difficult, at least in the foreseeable future and maybe ever, to truly eliminate this highly transmissible virus.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We can get to control without a doubt, it is within our power and within our capability.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We've obviously been trying very hard, we try to get trusted messengers out there and try and get this away from being an ideological or political statement, get back into the realm of pure public health, and try to convince people.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
It is very important that this now must go through the usual process of careful examination of the data by the Food and Drug Administration both for effectiveness, but also for safety, because whenever you introduce a new compound, safety is very important.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We have to just be careful that we don't prematurely declare victory in many respects. We still have around 68 million people who are eligible to be vaccinated that have not yet gotten vaccinated.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
There will be temptations, for example, for people who recently got vaccinated to not wait for the six month period of time.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
It is very important that this now must go through the usual process of careful examination of the data by the Food and Drug Administration both for effectiveness, but also for safety, because whenever you introduce a new compounds, safety is very important.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We really don’t know what the real number is. I think the real range is somewhere between 70 to 90 percent. But, I’m not going to say 90 percent.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We have to concentrate on continuing to get those numbers down and not try to jump ahead by weeks or months and say what we’re going to do at a particular time.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It is just too soon to tell, we have to concentrate on continuing to get those numbers down and not try to jump ahead by weeks or months and say what we’re going to do at a particular time.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Prevention is always better than treatment, it’s great that we’ve got treatments now but prevention is always going to be the priority, especially with safe and effective vaccines like we have in this country.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
So the idea that people right now are not listening to what I'm saying, what I'm saying is the truth, i actually agree.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
If that means going in and getting the flu shot in one arm( and) the Covid shot in the other, that's perfectly fine.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
If you allow the immune response to mature over a period of a few months, you get much more of a bang out of the shot, as it were -- an enhancement of your antibodies.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
They do have protection. The one thing that we are not aware of yet, and hopefully we'll get that data, is what the durability of protection is and looking ahead, whether or not that type of protection that's induced by natural infection, how that will be against the variety of variants as they arrive.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We think it's important to get boosters to Human Services.More people, but the overwhelming highest priority is to vaccinate the unvaccinated.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I have no problem at all with their decision. The thing that I'm saying is that data will continue to come in and I believe you're going to see an evolution of this process as we go on in the next several weeks to months.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I'm not, you know, blaming her for anything, but she should be thinking twice about propagating information that really has no basis as except a one-off anecdote. And that's not what science is all about.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I would hope that that would sustain Read MoreHealth experts for an extended period of time, but I don't know that right now, read MoreHealth experts're just going to have to do the boost, and then follow people long enough to determine what the durability of that protection is.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
If you surround the kids with vaccinated people and you have everybody wear a mask, you can get a situation where the children will be relatively safe in school.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I believe that's going to turn this around because I don't think people are going to want to not go to work or not go to college... They're going to do it, you'd like to have them do it on a totally voluntary basis, but if that doesn't work, you've got to go to the alternatives.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
There are going to be sports events, travel events, where the rule is going to be if you want to participate, you get vaccinated, if not, sorry, you're not going to be able to do it. And I think when we get more and more of that, I think we're going to start seeing a great diminution in the number of cases.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Outdoors is always better than indoors, but even when you have such a congregant setting of people close together, first, you should be vaccinated, and when you do have congregant settings, particularly indoors, you should be wearing a mask.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
But also, in order to protect those who can't get vaccinated, there are certain simple things you have to do, you mentioned one of them, universal masking in Feinberg School of Medicine, and even though there are some government leaders locally who are trying to push back on that, we've got to get the school system masked in addition to surrounding the children with vaccinated people. That's the solution.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I don't think that is a major issue there, but we would have liked to have seen it happen all together, simultaneously. But ultimately the plan will be implemented, as was originally put forth.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We were hoping that we would get the both the candidates, both products Moderna and Pfizer rolled out by the week of the 20th, it is conceivable that we will only have one of them out, but the other would likely follow soon thereafter.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I believe that mandating vaccines for children to appear in school is a good idea.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I would like to appeal to this country, to the people in the country who are not vaccinated, to realize that we have the capability among ourselves to essentially cut down the time frame to getting the end of this pandemic.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I don't think there's going to be any question that this is going to be effective in the children at that younger age. I have no doubt about that.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
You have got to create a safe environment, and there are a few ways of doing that, one of the safest ways is to surround the children with people who are vaccinated if they are eligible to be vaccinated.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I don't think that's going to be the case, because of the data we have now, of when we've done studies with boosters, the level of antibody that has been elevated by that third shot is extraordinary.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The combination of those two means we may need boosters, maybe beginning first with health care providers, as well as people in nursing homes and then gradually moving forward. so if it turns out, as the data come in, we see we do need to give an additional dose to people in nursing homes, actually, or people who are elderly, we will be absolutely prepared to do that very quickly.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
So if it turns out, as the data come in, we see we do need to give an additional dose to people in nursing homes, actually, or people who are elderly, we will be absolutely prepared to do that very quickly.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
No vaccine, at least not within this category, is going to have an indefinite amount of protection, inevitably, there will be a time when we'll have to give boosts. What we're doing literally on a weekly and monthly basis is following cohorts of patients to determine if, when and whom should get it. But right now at this moment, other than the immune compromised, we're not going to be giving boosters to people.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Inevitably, there will be a time when we'll have to give boosts. What we're doing literally on a weekly and monthly basis is following cohorts of patients to determine if, when and whom should get it. But right now at this moment, other than the immune compromised, we're not going to be giving boosters to people.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
There’s no doubt that there are more children getting infected.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The vaccines are doing exactly what we're asking them to do when it comes to keeping Barney Graham out of the hospital, out of serious disease and certainly preventing Barney Graham death, an important point to bring up is that the greater the percentage of people that are vaccinated, even with a high degree of protection, the absolute number of breakthrough infections might appear high.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
If we had the overwhelming proportion of the people vaccinated, we would not be having this conversation.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
If we continue to vaccinate and we get that 93 million people who are eligible for vaccinations, who have not been vaccinated, if we do that in the immediate, intermediate, and long-term, and do the mitigation right now, we will turn the delta surge around, i will guarantee you that that will happen if we do what I just outlined.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I will guarantee you that that will happen if we do what I just outlined.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
United States're going to have areas where the vaccine rate is high, where more than 70 % of the population has received at least one dose. When United States compare that with areas where United States may have 35 % of the people vaccinated, United States clearly have a high risk of seeing these spikes in those selected areas.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We may get there when mandates come, but it can't be 250,000, 500,000 a day, otherwise it's going to go well into the winter. I want to get there sooner.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Those individuals we know almost invariably do not have an adequate response, so the need to give them an additional boost is much more emergent than the general population.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We are trying very hard to get the regulatory mechanism in place very soon to get those individuals a boost that might bring up their immunity to the level where it should be, if possible.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Variants, we all know, have emerged because of the pressure that the human immune system has put on the virus, very likely from people who are immunosuppressed... and had virus in them for days and days and days before they cleared it and/or died, and then essentially led to the emergence of a variant.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I think Unvaccinated Covid-19 patients have enough of the percentage of people in the country, not enough to crush the outbreak, but I believe enough to not allow Unvaccinated Covid-19 patients to get into the situation Unvaccinated Covid-19 patients were in last winter.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We're looking to some pain and suffering in the future because we're seeing cases go up.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I have never lied before the Congress, and I do not retract that statement.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
What I would really like to see is more and more of the leaders in those areas that are not vaccinating to get out and speak out and encourage people to get vaccinated.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It’s a dynamic situation. It’s a work in progress, it evolves like in so many other areas of the pandemic, you’ve got to look at the data.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I would be astounded if these vaccines, namely the mRNA and the JJ, didn’t get full approval.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Thus far, things look good, but the final decision is going to be up to the FDA. And I would imagine that likely will not happen until we get well into the winter, towards the end of this year.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I do, right, and I'm not alone in that, a recent paper was put out by 21 very well internationally-respected virologists and evolutionary biologists who said the same thing as I'm saying. And I rely on people like that, who have great experience in this. That's what they do every single day -- who, again, are open minded -- and are saying it's conceivable that you may have had a lab leak. So you've got to keep an open mind to all possibilities, but they feel that the more likely explanation is a natural evolution from an animal host to a human.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The most likely explanation is a natural evolution from an animal reservoir to a human, once you say that, which I believe is the more likely, you've got to make sure you emphasize that you still keep an open mind for all possibilities, including a lab leak.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Under certain circumstances, where you have a high level of dynamics of infection -- be that in Los Angeles County or wherever -- the local authorities do have the discretion of going that extra mile or going the extra step Los Angeles County takes to make sure that the spread of this virus is really contained, and they do that by saying that everyone should wear a mask.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
There really should be. We're talking about life and death situation, we've lost 600,000 Americans already, and we're still losing more people. There've been 4 million deaths worldwide. This is serious business.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
But people need to understand that the amount of data right now that shows a high degree of effectiveness and a high degree of safety is more than we've ever seen with emergency use authorization. So these vaccines are as good as officially approved, with all the I's dotted and the Ts crossed. It hasn't been done yet because the FDA has to do certain things, but it's as good as done.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The CDC and the FDA said that based on the data that we know right now, we don't need a boost, that doesn't mean that that won't change. We might need, as a matter of fact, at some time to give boosters either across the board or to certain select groups, such as the elderly or those with underlying conditions.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
They're cheering about someone saying that it's a good thing for people not to try and save their lives.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Right now, given the data and the information we have, we do not need to give people a third shot, that doesn’t mean we stop there. ... There are studies being done now ongoing as we speak about looking at the feasibility about if and when we should be boosting people.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We're talking about life and death situation. We've lost 600,000 Americans already, and we're still losing more people. There've been 4 million deaths worldwide, this is serious business.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
It's horrifying. They are cheering about someone saying that it's a good thing for people not to try and save their lives.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I'm concerned as this variant becomes more dominant, those select areas of the country that have a very low level of vaccination, like 30 % or so, you're going to start seeing mini-surges that are localized to certain regions, you don't want to see two separate Americas, one that's vaccinated and protected and yet another that's unvaccinated and very much at risk.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I think that the message from the CDC is clear and I totally agree with them, we want all the children back in in-person classes in the fall term.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
You don't want to see two separate Americas, one that's vaccinated and protected and yet another that's unvaccinated and very much at risk.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Certainly, they need to listen to the CDC and the FDA, the FDA being the regulatory authority that has control over this. And the CDC, in accordance with their advisory committee on immunization practices, will make the recommendation.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
If you look at the number of deaths, about 99.2 % of them are unvaccinated. About 0.8 % are vaccinated. No vaccine is perfect. But when you talk about the avoidability of hospitalization and death, Chuck, it's really sad and tragic that most all of these are avoidable and preventable.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
When I'm in that area where there's a considerable degree of viral circulation, I might want to go the extra mile to be cautious enough to make sure that I get the extra added level of protection -- even though the vaccines themselves are highly effective.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
That is, if you were vaccinated, you have a high degree of protection. If you are not, you should wear a mask, and you should think very seriously about getting vaccinated.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
But you should only be making a formal recommendation based on clinical data.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
It is possible that you will see people who are infected get breakthrough infections, we haven't formally proven yet how much diminution there is in the likelihood of transmitting it to someone else -- including children -- and that's one of the reasons why you've got to be careful when you're dealing with something like The Delta variant of Covid-19.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We know as a fact, not conjecture but as a fact, that this virus spreads more efficiently from person to person. And it also leads to more severe disease, so it is not surprising that we're seeing more younger people not only getting infected but getting seriously ill.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Clearly now its transmissibility appears to be greater than the wild type, this is a situation, the way it was in England where they had a B. 1.1.7 dominant, and then the [ B. 1. ] 617 took over. We can not let that happen in the United States.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
This is a situation, the way it was in England where they had a B. 1.1.7 dominant, and then the [ B. 1. ] 617 took over. We can not let that happen in the United States.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We don't want to let happen in the United States what is happening currently in the UK, where Surgeon General Vivek Murthy have a troublesome variant essentially taking over as the dominant variant, which has made it a very difficult situation in the UK.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
When goals are set, they're set to be able to stimulate us to get to that goal, if you don't meet the precise goal and you fall short by a few percent, that doesn't mean you stop in your effort to get people vaccinated, we have always held that July 4 is not the end of it. We want to reach 70% of the adult population by the Fourth of July. I believe we can, I hope we will and if we don't, we're going to continue to keep pushing.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We are now doing studies that are ongoing as we're speaking, studies that are looking at what we call age de-escalation, children from 12 to 9 and then 9 to 6 and then 6 to 2 and then 6 months to 2 years, we hope that as we approach the end of this calendar year, we'll have enough information to vaccinate children of any age.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The emails were taken deliberately and egregiously out of context and therefore are profoundly misleading.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I went from a person who was seeing patients with other diseases and developing cures and adequate therapies for them in the early part of my career, to every day taking care of people who inevitably were going to die, usually within a short period of time.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We now are giving drugs to people who are living with HIV -- not only do these save their lives and give them essentially a normal lifespan, but you can prevent them from infecting other people.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Now, because The United States've had so much success early on, The United States are now getting to the part of the campaign which is tougher. The United States've got to look further, if you will, convince more people, get them the right information, increase access even further.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We are now doing studies that are ongoing as we're speaking, studies that are looking at what we call age de-escalation, children from 12 to 9 and then 9 to 6 and then 6 to 2 and then 6 months to 2 years.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I would imagine we will need, at some time, a booster, what we’re figuring out right now is what that interval is going to be.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It would have been almost a dereliction of our duty if we didn't study this, and the only way you can study these things is you've got to go where the action is, you don't want to study bats in Fairfax County, Virginia, to find out what the animal-human interface is that might lead to a jumping of species.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
You don't want to study bats in Fairfax County, Virginia, to find out what the animal-human interface is that might lead to a jumping of species.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I am not convinced about that, I think we should continue to investigate what went on in China until we continue to find out to the best of our ability what happened, certainly, the people who investigated it say it likely was the emergence from an animal reservoir that then infected individuals, but it could have been something else, and we need to find that out. So, you know, that's the reason why I said I'm perfectly in favor of any investigation that looks into the origin of the virus.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
No, actually, i am not convinced about that, I think we should continue to investigate what went on in China until we continue to find out to the best of our ability what happened.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
You can understand that when people have been following a certain trend for a considerable period of time that it may take time for them to adjust, i would not say that's irrational. I would say that's understandable.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The fact is we don't know, but it would really be foolish not to plan for the possibility that we might have to boost people, but there's no set rule now that says in six months or in a year we're going to require a boost.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We're preparing for the eventuality that we might need boosters, but I think we've got to be careful not to let the people know that inevitably, X number of months from now, everyone's going to need a booster. That's just not the case, we may not need The Washington Post for quite a while.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We know that the vaccine durability of the efficacy lasts at least six months, and likely considerably more, but I think we will almost certainly require a booster sometime within a year or so after getting the primary.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Almost all related to the social disadvantageous conditions that some people of color find themselves in from birth regarding availability of an adequate diet, access to health care and the undeniable effects of racism in our society, let us promise ourselves that our corporate memory of this tragic reality -- that an infectious disease disparately hospitalized and kills people of color -- does not fade after we return to some form of normality. Righting this wrong will take a decadeslong commitment. I strongly urge you to be part of that commitment.
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Public service can be incorporated into your lives regardless of your career choice. Give this consideration and make it at least part of your lives, leadership can be learned from many experiences and it takes many forms including the quiet and subtle leadership of example.
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The emergence of the AIDS pandemic and my decision to embrace change transformed my professional career, if not my entire life, please believe me that you will confront the same types of unpredictable events that I've experienced regardless of what directions your careers or your lives take. And so, expect the unexpected and, when you can, meet the challenge and seize the relevant opportunities as they arise.
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One of the important things that I have come to appreciate in my experiences this past year is how destructive divisiveness is.
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Not since the influenza pandemic of 1918 has humanity faced a public health crisis of this magnitude. Each of you deserves enormous respect for your extraordinary adaptability, resilience and dedication to learning, completing your studies and graduating despite immense difficulties and uncertainties.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
When you get vaccinated, you not only protect your own health and that of the family, but also you contribute to the community health by preventing the spread of the virus throughout the community, in other words, you become a dead-end to the virus. And when there are a lot of dead ends around, the virus is not going to go anywhere.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The underlying reason for the CDC doing this was just based on the evolution of the science.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
So even though there are breakthroughinfections with vaccinated people almost always the people are asymptomatic and the level of virus is so low it makes it extremely unlikely — not impossible — but very, very low likelihood that they're going to transmit it.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
There's absolutely nothing wrong with an individual who has a certain level of risk aversion, as we know the risk is extremely low of getting infected whether you're indoors or outdoors, but there are those people who don't want to take that bit of a risk, and there's nothing wrong with that, and they shouldn't be criticized.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Being able to go around without a mask, indoors as well as outdoors, is really a big step in that direction, i wouldn't want to declare victory prematurely, but I'm saying this is clearly a step in the direction that we want to go.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
There are going to be institutions, clearly, that are going to be saying -- and that could be airlines, we know certain colleges are also saying -- if you're not vaccinated, you're not going to come on campus to classes in real time, and there are going to be some institutions that might be saying the same thing.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I think there's going to be a pushback against questioning somebody when they walk in, because you can never validate or prove that they're telling you the truth.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
You've got to shut down. I believe several of the Indian states have already done that, but you need to break the chain of transmission, and one of the ways to do that is to shut down.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
However, even before you get to that, as you get more and more people vaccinated, you will reach a point... where you'll start to see the number of cases going down dramatically.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
You may see blips but if we handle them well, it is unlikely that you'll see the kind of surge that we saw in the late fall and the early winter.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We do need to start being more liberal as we get more people vaccinated.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I hope that next Mother’s Day, we’re going to see a dramatic difference than what we’re seeing right now. I believe that we will be about as close to back to normal as we can. And there’s some conditions to that, George, we’ve got to make sure that we get the overwhelming proportion of the population vaccinated.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
They really got to get hospital beds and do really what the Chinese did way back a year or so ago, where you essentially build up with –the equivalent of field hospitals. You’ve got to get that, you can’t have people out in the street not having a hospital bed.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
But the end game of this all, George, is going to be to get people vaccinated, india is the largest vaccine producing country in the world, they’ve got to get their resources not only from within but also from without and that’s the reason why other countries need to chip in to be able to get either supplies to the Indians to make their own vaccines or to get vaccines donated.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We've been saying, and the CDC has been saying all along, that it isvery likely that we're undercounting.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I want to find out how could it possibly be that the same virus that's killed 570,000 people in this country is a virus in which more than half the people don't ever get any symptoms.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I think it’s going to be very soon, I mean I don’t want to get ahead of the FDA but I believe it’s going to be within several days, I cannot imagine it’s going to be much longer than that.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
You have the capability of protecting yourself as a young person, 12 to 15, but also knowing that you're not going to pass it on to someone else, you even want to call upon the young people to say,' I want to protect Anthony Fauci, but I want to be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I think we're going to be able to do it, i think it's by changing a little bit of the strategy -- getting out of the mass vaccination approach, and really putting in walk-in capabilities in 40,000 or so pharmacies throughout the country, getting mobile units going, getting the local capability of accessibility rather than these broad, mass vaccination sites.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
It's not going to be like a light switch on and off - we go from where we are right now to completely normal. It's going to be a gradual, little by little you'll be seeing that approach to normal.
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I can't give you what that exact number is now, because we don't know it.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
So if you want to only worry about yourself and not society, then that's OK.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The default should be, and has been for quite a while, that to the best of our ability, we should try to get children back to school as quickly as we can and keep them in schools.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I would get as much outdoors as you possibly can. If you look at the super spreader events that have occurred, I think it's incorrect to call people super spreaders. The event is super spread. They're almost always inside, nothing's 100%, but it's almost invariable that it's indoors. So when you are indoors, make sure you have a mask, when you're outdoors, keep the mask on.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
That's the reason why we and other rich countries have to exert what I think is a moral responsibility to help the rest of the world get this under control, a year from now we'll be in really much better shape than we are now, but there'll be other countries that won't be. The quicker we get the rest of the world protected, the more secure will our protection be.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
There are different sections of the country that have different dynamics of infection, if a particular region is really, really very low and doing really, really well, certainly I think there's going to be a differential in being able to say one can do certain things or not.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
If they call a pause for such a rare event, you can be sure that they take safety very, very seriously, if any degree of hesitancy is related to continued concern about safety, you just need to look at the system, which is highly sensitive in using surveillance to look for adverse events.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I don't want to get ahead of the CDC's recommendation, but the European Medicines Agency -- which asks the same question about the use of the JJ product in Europe -- has made the determination that they will allow it to be given, because they feel that the risk of Covid-19 far outweighs the very rare, rare occurrence of this serious adverse event, they are letting the vaccine go out with a warning to people about what to look for, about what the risk is.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I don't think that's going to be a factor in whether or not the CDC and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, and ultimately Johnson Johnsons vaccineThe FDA, will make a decision, the decision of what to do with this vaccine as a vaccine product is not going to be influenced by that. It's going to be influenced by the data and safety -- not in what's going on there.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The decision of what to do with this vaccine as a vaccine product is not going to be influenced by that. It's going to be influenced by the data and safety -- not in what's going on there, but you can be assured, and the American public can be assured, that no vaccines are going to go out of there unless Johnson Johnsons vaccineThe FDA is quite confident in them.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
My message, Congressman Jordan, is to get as many people vaccinated as quickly as we possibly can to get the level of infection in this country low, that it is no longer a threat, that is when.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
If anyone's got a doubt that they may not be taking safety very seriously, I think this is an affirmation that safety is a primary consideration when it comes to the FDA and the CDC, that's why it was done and that's why it's a pause. It isn't a cancellation ; it's a pause.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I mean, in this last month The US's just been horrifying what's happened, how can you say The US's not The US ?
Found on CNN 3 years ago
What we are doing is we’re trying to get, by a community core, trusted messages that anyone would feel comfortable with listening to, whether you’re a Republican, a Democrat, an independent or whomever you are, that you’re comfortable.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Hopefully, by Friday, we’ll get back on track one way or the other.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Hopefully, we'll get a decision quite soon as to whether or not we can get back on track with this very effective vaccine.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I'm not favoring anybody over anybody, i'm just making a statement that's a broad statement... avoid crowds of any type no matter where you are, because that leads to the acquisition and transmission. And I don't judge one crowd versus another crowd.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
OK,we're gonna play that game, let me explain to you what happened back then.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
When we get the level of infection in this country low enough that it is not a really high threat.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I'm not in a position to determine what the government can do in a forceful way.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
If anyone's got a doubt that United States may not be taking safety very seriously, I think this is an affirmation that safety is a primary consideration when it comes to the FDA and the CDC, that's why it was done and that's why it's a pause. It isn't a cancellation, it's a pause.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
If you look at the history, look at what has gone on with the Moderna and Pfizer, you have literally tens and tens and tens of millions, there have been no red flags.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
What you need to do is you need to look at the level of infection in the community, being vaccinated, the risk for you is very low. It isn't like before, when you were not vaccinated and you had a lot of activity in the community and you went into an indoor restaurant where there was no( restrictions)... your risk would be up there. Whereas now, the risk is not zero, but it's extremely low.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Multiple studies have shown now that after the first dose, at four weeks, the efficacy is somewhere between 80 and 92%.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Getting vaccinated is the best thing we can do to fight back against these variants, while millions of people are vaccinated, we need millions more to get vaccinated. I need your help. I need you to help, not just the country, but your family, your friends, your neighbors, get them vaccinated as well.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We certainly are taking the New York variant, the 526 [referring to B.1.526] very seriously.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We don't compare one to the other, the only way that you can effectively do that is by having head-to-head comparisons in a clinical trial, which was not done. And so, as Andy said, and I'll reiterate, it's a question if you go in and the vaccine is available to you, I would take the first available vaccine because the most important thing to do is to get vaccinated and not to try and figure out if one may be or may not be better than the other.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
As we've said many times, and happy to reiterated right now, we have three highly efficacious vaccines with a very good safety profile, each preventing hospitalizations and deaths. That's point number one.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
First of all, I love Jerome Adams. Jerome Adams's really Jerome Adams. We worked so well together during The Trump administration, i think he's incorrect on this.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We're telling people [ two shots ] is what Anthony Fauci should do... and then we say,' Oops, we changed our mind' ? i think that would be a messaging challenge, to say the least.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Right now, we project that the clinical trials will give us information that by the time we get to the fall, high school students will be able to be vaccinated, i'm not sure if it's going to be by the first day of school, but sometime in the fall.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The way the program is now scheduled, children who are elementary school, 6 to 12, that group of individuals... those individuals will not be able to be vaccinated until their trials are finished, which will likely be at the earliest, the end of this year, more likely the first quarter of 2022.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I understand the need to want to get back to normality, but you're only going to set yourself back if you just completely push aside the public health guidelines -- particularly when we're dealing with anywhere from 55 to 70,000 infections per day in the The US.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
If I were not vaccinated now and I had a choice of getting a JJ vaccine now or waiting for another vaccine, I would take whatever vaccine would be available to me as quickly as possible for the simple reason of what I said a moment ago.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
There have been a number of studies to show that when you have children that are of a certain age, namely … eighth grade and higher, that they transmit as easily as adults transmit.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It’s just that the demand clearly outstrips the supply right now.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Enjoy Super Bowl but don't do Super Bowl with a large crowd of people in your house, in a place where Super Bowl's cold and you don't have good ventilation. Super Bowl's a perfect set-up to have a mini super-spreader event.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
That's what I think is going on : a combination of the natural peaking, as well as people doubling down on the public health measures.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
As difficult as that is, at least this time around, just lay low and cool it.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
You know, people think sometimes that public health officials are oblivious to the economic considerations. Not at all -- I mean, we are very empathetic towards that, but we still have to maintain the public health measures if we're going to get our arms around this outbreak.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I certainly have every reason to believe the Brits, but I'd like to see the data Anthony Fauci.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We could see literally within a week or so that they wind up getting the kind of emergency use authorization.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
You don't want to deprive them to get the younger ones, because they're the ones that are going to wind up in the hospital and have a higher rate of death, what we don't want to do is to neglect them.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The President is taking very seriously the issue ... both from the student standpoint and from the teacher standpoint, he really wants to and believes that the schools need to reopen in the next 100 days, essentially all the K-8 schools, within 100 days. That's the goal. That may not happen because there may be mitigating circumstances, but what he really wants to do is everything within his power to help get to that.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We feel strongly that we will go by the science which has dictated for us the optimal way to get the 94 to 95% response which is in fact durable for the period of time that we’ve been following it.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
What we now know from this study, namely the JJ and the Novavax study, that antigenic variation, i.e. mutations that lead to different lineage, do have clinical consequences because as you can see, even though the long-range effect in the sense of severe disease is still handled reasonably well by the vaccines, this is a wakeup call to all of us that we will be dealing, as the virus uses its devices to evade pressure, particularly immunological pressure, that we will continue to see the evolution of mutants.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
You need to get vaccinated when National Institute of Allergy becomes available as quickly and as expeditiously as possible, you stop their replication by vaccinating widely.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The best way to prevent further evolution of a virus is to prevent it from replicating.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The fact is, when you have a virus that has ability to transmit more efficiently than the wild type in the community, sooner or later by pure viral dynamics itself, it will become more dominant than the wild type.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The thing that’s troublesome now that we really need to keep our eye on are these variants, the one that is of greater concern and that really could be problematic is the mutant that is now dominant in South Africa.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I would back the CDC recommendations because that is really based on data, we didn't fully appreciate that early on. But the fact is that when you look at a community and look at the penetrance of the virus in the community and its spread at the community level, compared to the school in that community, it's less likely for a child to get infected in the school setting than if they were just in the community.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The President is taking very seriously the issue... both from the student standpoint and from the teacher standpoint, the President really wants to and believes that the schools need to reopen in the next 100 days, essentially all the K to 8 schools, within 100 days. That's the goal. That may not happen because there may be mitigating circumstances, but what The President really wants to do is everything within The President power to help get to that.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The educational community, the teachers and the teams associated with education are such an absolutely critical part of society in general, but also a very critical part of our response to this outbreak -- because we're not going to get back to normal until we get the children back in school.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Johnson Johnson is right around the corner... right around the corner means that they're probably a couple of weeks away from getting the data looked at, to have the FDA evaluate whether or not we're in a situation where we could move ahead and start thinking about getting it out into the public.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I just said,' Oh my goodness gracious.' I could just see what's going to happen.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
If you have a physical covering with one layer, you put another layer on, it just makes common sense that it likely would be more effective and that's the reason why you see people either double masking or doing a version of an N95.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The number of vaccines that we’ve gotten into the arms of people, good start we want to keep going, get a lot of people vaccinated, but I do n’t think the dynamics of what we’re seeing now with the plateauing is significantly influenced yet, it will be soon, but yet by the vaccine, i just think it’s the natural course of plateauing.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
What we will do and are doing already is making preparations for the possibility that down the pipe, down the line, we may need to modify and upgrade the vaccines. We don’t need to do that right now, the best way to prevent the further evolution of these mutants is to vaccinate as many people as possible with the vaccines that we have currently available to us.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We want to look at the data ourselves, but we have every reason to believe them, we’re going to look at this and follow this very, very carefully because these things evolve.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
These are serious situations that we are following very closely and, if necessary, we will adapt to it.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
When you get more cases, you’re going to get more hospitalizations. And when you get more hospitalizations, you’re ultimately going to get more deaths.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
It has not become dominant, it might. That's the reason why you have to watch it carefully as we go from January into February, and really take a good look.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I don't want to get ahead of them, but I have to tell you I would be surprised if it was any more than two weeks from now that data will be analyzed, and decisions would be made.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
States were doing things that clearly were not the right direction - and that’s unfortunate.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I feel fairly confident that that's going to be not only that but maybe even better, the amount that will be coming in, we will be able to meet that goal.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I take no pleasure at all in being in a situation of contradicting the president.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The experts say, by wearing a mask from now until April, we’d save more than 50,000 lives.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Our default position – there will always be exceptions ... there is never one-size-fits-all – our default position should be to try to keep the schools open and get children who are not in school back in school as best as we possibly can.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
When you take into consideration the safety and the health of the children as well as the teachers, in general, it looks like we can keep the children in school and get them back to school safely.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I am honored to announce that the United States will remain a member of the World Health Organization, yesterday, President Biden signed the letters retracting the previous administration’s announcement to withdraw from the organization.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
One thing that’s clear is that the issue of getting 100 million doses in the first 100 days is absolutely a doable thing, the feasibility of his goal is absolutely clear. There’s no doubt about that, that that can be done.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The idea of vaccinating teachers is very high up in the priority, as well as doing surveillance in the schools so that you can get a good feel for the penetration of infection.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I think its pretty clear that if its in places like California, and New York and Colorado... that pretty soon its going to be in several more states.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Again, no excuses, but Anthony Fauci can explain why Anthony Fauci may not have gotten to the level Anthony Fauci want. Now, not to make excuses, we should have done better. So, let me make that clear, we should have done better, but I think we should wait until we get into maybe the second, or the third week in January, to see if we can now catch up with the original pace that was set.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Clearly, no excuses. We should have gotten 20 distributed, and 20 into the arms of people -- by 20, I mean 20 million, i think we have to wait for the first couple of weeks in January to make any determination as to what's gone wrong, if anything.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I think we have to wait for the first couple of weeks in January to make any determination as to what's gone wrong, if anything.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Younger working adults are generally more active, more social and travel more so this strategy should decrease community transmission faster than vaccinating older individuals.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We wanted to get to 20 million, but some glimmer of hope is that in the last 72 hours, they’ve gotten 1.2 million doses into peoples’ arms, which is an average of about 500,000 a day, we are not where we want to be. There’s no doubt about that. But I think we can get there.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We are not where we want to be. There’s no doubt about that. But I think we can get there.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
In many areas of the country, the hospital beds are stretched. People are running out of beds, running out of trained personnel who are exhausted right now, that's real. that's not fake. That's real.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
But if you look at the last 72 hours, there's been about 1.5 million administered into people's arms, which is an average of about 500,000 a day.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
All you need to do ...is to go into the trenches, go into the hospitals, go into the intensive care units and see what is happening, those are real numbers, real people and real deaths.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We have a hard struggle still ahead of us for weeks and months because we face a new variant of the disease that requires a new vigilance, but as the sun rises tomorrow on 2021, we have the certainty of those vaccines. I believe 2021 is, above all, the year when we will eventually do those everyday things that now seem lost in the past, bathed in a rosy glow of nostalgia -- going to the pub, concerts, theaters, restaurants, or simply holding hands with our loved ones in the normal way.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I still think, if done properly, you can do a single dose, reserve doses for the second dose, and still get the job done.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
You can make an argument, and some people are, about stretching out the doses by giving a single dose across the board, and hoping you’re going to get the second dose in time to give to individuals.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We were hoping that as we ended December 31, we will have had 20 million doses in the arms of individuals and obviously from thenumbers thats not the case. What we hope is they will now be gaining momentum as we catch up with this, whenever you have a very large operation, such as trying to vaccinate an entire country with a new vaccine, there always will be bumps in the road and hiccups about that.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
By the time we get to the early fall, we will have enough good herd immunity to be able to really get back to some strong semblance of normality - schools, theaters, sports events, restaurants.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I'm pretty confident that as we gain more and more momentum, as we transition from December to January and then February to March, I believe we will catch up with the projection.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Weve got to be doing a lot of community engagement and community outreach to get people to understand the two things that bother people, they say, Well, maybe we did this too quickly, they need to understand the speed is really a reflection of the extraordinary scientific advances that have been made that allowed us to do things in weeks to months that normally wouldve taken several years.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We're starting to see infections that are emerging from what otherwise seem like benign settings.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The more and more people that get vaccinated, the less and less the threat is, whether you get to the point if you have an overwhelming majority of people vaccinated and you have a good umbrella of herd immunity, you can get back to as close to normal as you want.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We have to make sure there's not a Christmas and holiday surge on top of that, that's in our hands to stop these numbers from climbing, these( hospital) beds from disappearing, and these lives from being ended.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I would project by the time you get to April, it will be...' open season,' in the sense of anyone, even the non-high-priority groups, could get vaccinated.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We want to make this eventually so it's as much like getting Anthony Fauci flu vaccine as possible.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I don't believe we're going to be able to throw the masks away and forget about physical separation in congregate settings for a while, probably likely until we get into the late fall and early next winter, but I think we can do it.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
If enough Americans get this vaccine, you'll all forget who I am, that's my goal : To have zero name recognition with Americans. That would mean I did my job well.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We're going to be asking people to do something that is difficult and maybe even painful, particularly at the family level, is to tell people, unless it's absolutely necessary, not to travel, we said that over Thanksgiving and we're saying the same thing over Christmas.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Without substantial mitigation, the middle of January can be a really dark time for us.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We dont expect to see the full brunt of it between two and three weeks following Thanksgiving, so I think we have not yet seen the post-Thanksgiving peak, thats the concerning thing because the numbers in and of themselves are alarming, and then you realize that it is likely well see more of a surge as we get two to three weeks past the Thanksgiving holiday.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
If you look at the vaccine, the level and quality of neutralizing antibodies was comparable to and even better than what you see in the convalescent plasma of people who actually were infected and developed an immune response, it's at least as good as the response associated with natural infection.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
OK, so both of the vaccines that we're talking about -- the Moderna vaccine and the Pfizer vaccine -- are what's called a prime boost, one injection followed in (three to four) weeks by another injection.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
After the second dose, you get optimal immunity anywhere from seven to 10 days after the second dose.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I do have great faith in both the scientific community and the regulatory community in the UK, i did not mean to apply any sloppiness (to the UK regulatory process), even though it came out that way.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
If we had for example approved it yesterday or tomorrow, there likely would have been pushback on an already scrutinising society, you know, at the end of the day, it’s going to be safe, it’s going to be effective, the people in the UK are going to receive it and they’re going to do really well, and the people in the United States are going to receive it and we’re going to do pretty well.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
You know, at the end of the day, it’s going to be safe, it’s going to be effective, the people in the UK are going to receive it and they’re going to do really well, and the people in the United States are going to receive it and we’re going to do pretty well.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We're entering into what really is a precarious situation because we're in the middle of a steep slope.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We say it, not being facetiously or havinga soundbite or anything, but you know: close the bars, keep the schools open, is what we really say.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We tried to get the word out, as difficult as it is to not have large gatherings of people and family.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
If you have a highly efficacious vaccine, and only a relatively small 40, 50 % of the people get vaccinated, you're not going to get the herd immunity you need, what we do need is we need to get as many people as possible vaccinated.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
When the American public hears that, you should be assured that that is the case and if you get an overwhelming majority of the people vaccinated with a highly efficacious vaccine, we can reasonably quickly get into herd immunity that would be a blanket of protection for the country.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
So, if we get the overwhelming majority of people taking the vaccine, and you have on the one hand an effective vaccine, on the other hand, a high degree of uptake of the vaccine, we could start getting things back to relative normal as we get into the second and third quarter of the year, where people can start thinking about doing things that were too dangerous just months ago.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Some people in this country are going to be able to have a relatively normal type of a Thanksgiving, but in other areas of the country, it's going to be,' You better hold off and maybe just have immediate family, and make sure you do it in a way that people wear masks, and you don't have large crowds of people,' what we're starting to see now -- and we can't run away from it -- we're starting to see in the Midwest and the Northwest, an uptick in test positivity, which tends to be a predictor that you're going to have surges.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Transitions are important, and if you don't have a smooth transition, you would not optimize whatever efforts you're doing right now.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I just can't understand why there's pushback against that. They're not difficult to do, and they save lives.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
If you don't have a smooth transition, you would not optimize whatever efforts you're doing right now.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Stay completely apolitical. Don't get involved in any of the political aspects, and just focus on what your job is as a scientist and a physician, you do that, you'll be fine.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We do know for absolutely certain that there is a post-Covid-19 syndrome -- referred to sometimes as long Covid, chronic Covid, long haulers, we're seeing variable percentages, and anywhere from 25 to 35 % or more have lingering symptoms -- well beyond what you'd expect post any viral syndrome, like influenza and others.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Ultimately, they're going to wind up infecting people in the community, but they're the ones that are sort of driving the infection.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I have real problems with that guy, he's a smart guy who's talking about things that I believe he doesn't have any real insight or knowledge or experience in. He keeps talking about things that when you dissect it out and parse it out, it doesn't make any sense.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We're in for a whole lot of hurt. It's not a good situation, all the stars are aligned in the wrong place as you go into the fall and winter season, with people congregating at home indoors. You could not possibly be positioned more poorly.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It's much more about some of the states like Utah, Nevada, South Dakota, North Dakota, where... they never had a pretty good reserve of intensive care beds and things like South Dakota. I hope they'll be okay, but it's still a risk that, as you get more surging, they're going to run out of capacity.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I definitely don't have The President ear as much as Scott Atlas right now, that has been a changing situation.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Well, if people are not wearing masks, then maybe we should be mandating it.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
If you look at the people who were sick, but didn't require hospitalization.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We need to put that nonsense behind us about' well, they keep changing their minds,'.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The issue that people say you don't want to alarm people is totally nonsense, in anything we've ever done in our history, Anthony Fauci know from world wars to depressions to anthrax attacks, now to an outbreak like this, the thing that gets people spooked is when they don't know what's going on, not when Anthony Fauci tell them what's going on.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
If in fact, somebody does want to shoot the messenger and say' I don't like what they're saying, I don't want to talk to them anymore,' so be it, at least you maintain your integrity.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Otherwise once you lose the confidence of people, they don't believe what you're saying or they believe you're holding things back or they believe there's a political motivation to things.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Let's see if we could put this to rest once and for all, cloth coverings work.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Meta analysis studies show that, contrary to what we thought, masks really do work in preventing infection, when you find out you're wrong, it's a manifestation of your honesty to say,' Hey, I was wrong. I did subsequent experiments and now it's this way.'.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
A couple of the vaccines are very close to getting some sort of information.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Ill walk into that audience, ill walk in there, Ill kiss everyone in that audience. Ill kiss the guys and the beautiful womeneverybody.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
By the time Marshall Cohen Pence mobilize the distribution of the vaccinations, and Marshall Cohen Pence get the majority, or more, of the population vaccinated and protected, that's likely not going to happen to the mid or end of 2021.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Obviously, the message should be that we should try as best as we can to avoid infection. No matter who you are, how old you are, or what your underlying condition is, we should not trivialize it.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
If Paul Stoffels look at the standard process of how these things work, I think Paul Stoffels could feel comfortable that it is really unlikely that that's going to happen.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I don't think there's going to be a problem with the cost because I think people don't fully appreciate the vaccine itself has already been bought by the federal government, so a person who gets a vaccine will not pay for the vaccine.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Let's say... at the end of the year, there will be millions and tens of millions of doses available, it won't be until we get into 2021 that you'll have hundreds of millions of doses, and just the logistics constraints in vaccinating large numbers of people -- it's going to take months to get enough people vaccinated to have an umbrella of immunity over the community.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It's not going to be turning a switch off and turning the switch on, it's going to be gradual and I think it's going to take several months before we get to the point where we can really feel something that approximates how it was normally before Covid-19.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
You send them back to their community, you will in essence be reseeding with individuals who are capable of transmitting infection, many communities throughout the country, so, it's much, much better to have the capability to put them in a place where they could comfortably recover.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We don't want to see a repeat of the surges that we have seen following other holiday weekends, we don't want to see a surge under any circumstances, but particularly as we go on the other side of Labor Day and enter into the fall.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I will look at the data and I would assume -- and I'm pretty sure it's going to be the case -- that a vaccine would not be approved for the American public unless it was indeed both safe and effective, if that's the case Jim, I would not hesitate for a moment to take the vaccine Anthony Fauci and recommend it for my family.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I'm not a regulator, I mean, I just do the science. I'd report the science in an accurate way, and certainly if I saw interference, I would be very disturbed and call it out.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
They've got to have the capability of doing the testing to begin with, they've got to have the capability of doing surveillance testing as you get into the school year, and they have to have a plan of how they handle the inevitability of some students who are going to wind up getting affected.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Keep them at the university in a place that's sequestered enough from the other students. But don't have them go home, because they could be spreading it in their home state.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The numbers that you've been hearing, the 180,000-plus deaths, are real deaths from Covid-19.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We're going to keep going until we get there. We may just need to accrue more volunteers than [ 30,000 ].
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I am concerned about the interpretation of these recommendations and worried it will give people the incorrect assumption that asymptomatic spread is not of great concern. In fact it is.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Black or African American, Latinx, American Indian and Alaskan Native.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We'd better be careful when we say' Young people who don't wind up in the hospital are fine, let them get infected, it's OK.' No, it's not OK.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Quite frankly, I don't think this is something we're going to use.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It was more or less because of a lot of pressure about what happens if you don't do it. We kept on getting asked.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
If everyone contracted National Institute of Allergy, even with the relatively high percentage of people without symptoms... a lot of people are going to die, anthony Fauci look at the United States of America with our epidemic of obesity as it were. With the number of people with hypertension. With the number of people with diabetes. If everyone got infected, the death toll would be enormous and totally unacceptable.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
You can't run away from the numbers, you can't run away from the numbers of people who've died, the number of people getting hospitalized, the surges we're seeing.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Then there's the other thing that is really the chronic and decades-old dilemma of the social determinants of health, which is why African Americans have a higher degree of diabetes, of hypertension, of obesity, of heart disease, of chronic lung disease, of kidney disease, that does not need to be. But to get corrected, you have to make a decades-long commitment to change that.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
You're not pulling back on your vigilance, and making sure you don't have resurgence of cases that would put you back, rather than stay where you are and going forward.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It's not rocket science, if we all did (both) uniformly, I believe that we could turn things around.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
In many respects, unfortunately, though this may sound a little scary and harsh, I don't mean it to be that way, is that you're going to be actually part of the experiment of the learning curve of what we need to know, we don't have the total database of knowing what there is to expect.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I do not believe that there will be vaccines so far ahead of us that we will have to depend on other countries to get us vaccines.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I was talking to a group of teachers in a fireside chat and one of the teachers asked,' Can the virus enter through the eye ?' because some of the teachers were seeing people on television and wanted to wear eye shields.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I don't think it's dreaming, Congresswoman, i believe it is the reality.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We certainly need people to be rational about vaccines. They eradicated smallpox, they saved millions and millions of lives, they are very complex to design, and that's why, you know, saying it's being done at Warp Speed is a little scary, because you really need to do the safety checks very, very carefully.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I just want to use my last couple of seconds to urge anyone who's listening who wants to participate to please go to that website and register so that you can be part of the solution of this terrible scourge.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We don't know the full impact, we don't have the total database of knowing what there is to expect.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We would hope that( states) all now rethink at what happens when you don't adhere to that.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
There are 89 sites distributed throughout the country, they are widely distributed as a matter of fact in areas where there is clearly as of right now active infection going on.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think as we get into 2021, several months in, that you would have( a) vaccine that would be widely available to people in the United States.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
If we could vaccinate the overwhelming majority of the population, we could start talking about real normality again, but it is going to be a gradual process.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think as we get into 2021, several months in, that you would have [ a ] vaccine that would be widely available to people in the United States.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I'm a little skeptical about that, but, you know, anything is possible.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I'm not even sure we're halfway through. I mean, obviously, if you want to do a score, I don't want to get too cute about it, but certainly we are not winning the game right now, we are not leading it.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It was only when the world realized how the gay community responded to this outbreak with incredible courage and dignity and strength and activism -- I think that really changed some of the stigma against the gay community, i see a similarity here because health disparities have always existed for the African American community.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We don't know the extent of full recovery or partial recovery, so there's a lot we need to learn.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
She's not a political appointee but she's in a very political environment, i think you've got to cut her some slack and give her a break -- I think she's doing a very good job.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I disagree that her current role has tainted her reputation.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
You're going to get back to normal, and you'll be able to freely have fun, go to the bars, go with the crowds, but not now, now's not the time to do that.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I've never seen an infection with this broad range of manifestations.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The problem is, since we started off our baseline so high, as we tried to open up, you saw that there was a wide variation in how that was done.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think we can't deny that fact, if you look at the magnitude of the 1918 pandemic where anywhere from 50 to 75 to 100 million people globally died, that was the mother of all pandemics and truly historic. I hope we don't even approach that with this, but it does have the makings of, the possibility of... approaching that in seriousness.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
As of today, on the 17th of February, the risk is really relatively low. But we, the public health officials, have to take this seriously enough to be prepared for it changing and there being a pandemic.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
One of the things we want to emphasize and have been emphasizing is to take a look at where you are in the area of the so-called opening America again. Are you at the gateway phase one, phase two, phase three ? the CDC has guidelines about the opening of schools at various stages of those checkpoints. The basic fundamental goal would be as soon as you possibly can to get the children back to school and to use the public health as a tool to help get children back to school.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Rather than think in terms of reverting back down to a complete shutdown, I would think we need to get the states pausing in their opening process.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
People lined up two and three deep at a bar in an indoor place with air conditioners circulating... people don't have their masks on, and that's a real vulnerable area, are the bars.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I would hope we don't have to resort to shut down, i think that would be something that is obviously an extreme. I think it would not be viewed very, very favorably... So rather than think in terms of reverting back down to a complete shutdown, I would think we need to get the states pausing in their opening process.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
From experience historically... when you don't have unanimity in an approach to something, you're not as effective in how you handle it.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We are still knee-deep in the first wave of this, rather than looking at the public health effort versus economic opening as if they were opposing forces... we should use the public health effort as a vehicle and a pathway to get to safe reopening.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
What we're seeing is exponential growth. It went from an average of about 20,000 to 40,000 and 50,000. That's doubling.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Rather than looking at the public health effort versus economic opening as if they were opposing forceswe should use the public health effort as a vehicle and a pathway to get to safe reopening.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
So we've got to make sure that we don't create this binary type thing of' it's us against them,' it's not. We're all in it together.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
That is being discussed really very actively. We were discussing it actively today in the task force and I can assure you, it's going to be on the agenda tomorrow, given the fact that we know that asymptomatic people are clearly transmitting infection, it just makes commonsense that it's not a bad idea to do that.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
How do David Pugh do contact tracing when someone doesn't have any symptoms ? the standard, classic paradigm of identification, isolation, contact tracing doesn't work no matter how good you are because you don't know who you're tracing.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The dots are not connected because a lot of it is done by phone, fifty percent of the people because you're coming from an authority, don't even want to talk to you.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Bars : really not good, really not good, congregation at a bar, inside, is bad news. We really have got to stop that.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
In the United States, even in the most strict lockdowns, only about 50 % of the country locked down -- that allowed for the perpetuation of the outbreak, which we never did get under very good control.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It does not have to be 100,000 cases a day, i used that number because I wanted to jolt people.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It really will depend on the dynamics of the outbreak in the particular location where the school is.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Always make the goal that it is very important to get the children back to school for the unintended negative consequences that occur when we keep them out of school.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
When states start to try and open again they need to follow the guidelines that have been very carefully laid out with regard to check points, what we've seen in several states are different iterations of that. Perhaps maybe in some, going too quickly and skipping over some of the checkpoints.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
> Washington( CNN) Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on Tuesday evening took some direct shots at Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the President's coronavirus task force.Specifically, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick took issue with comments that Anthony Fauci had made earlier in the day during a Senate hearing, when Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick suggested that some states had reopened too fast and skipped some guidelines in the process.Texas was among the first states to begin reopening in early May but Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has recently reversed course after a spike in coronavirus cases.In defending Texas's reopening strategy, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick claimed that.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It's a violation of the principles of what we're trying to do, and that is the social distancing, the wearing of masks.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We have to admit it that mixed message in the beginning, even though it was well meant, to allow masks to be available to help workers, that was detrimental in getting the message across right now, no doubt about it.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We've got to be able to get people to get out and enjoy themselves within the safe guidelines that we have, make public health work for you as opposed to against you.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Bars : really not good, really not good. Congregation at a bar, inside, is bad news. We really have got to stop that.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We are now having 40-plus thousand new cases a day. I would not be surprised if we go up to 100,000 a day if this does not turn around and so I am very concerned.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We're going to continue to be in a lot of trouble, and there's going to be a lot of hurt if that does not stop.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Its a paradigm shift because were dealing with young people, people who are going to be asymptomatic, and people who are getting infected in a community setting, not an outbreak setting where you know who to identify, isolate and contact trace.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
For goodness sakes : avoid crowds, wear masks. Those are the fundamentals that -- when Peter Hotez look at the television clips, when Peter Hotez see pictures in the newspapers -- people are not doing that. That's a recipe for disaster.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Something's not working, i mean, you can do all the diagramming you want, but something is not working.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
What you need to do is find the penetration of infected people in your society, and the only way you know that is by casting a broad net.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We now know the level of virus in an asymptomatic person is about the same as the level of virus in somebody who has symptoms, so it's like, oh my goodness, how do you address that ?
Found on CNN 4 years ago
For goodness sakes : avoid crowds, wear masks. Those are the fundamentals that -- when you look at the television clips, when you see pictures in the newspapers -- people are not doing that. That's a recipe for disaster.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I wouldn't necessarily say an absolute shutdown, lockdown, but if someone is going from gateway to phase one to phase two and they get into trouble in phase two, they may need to go back to phase one.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
They've suffered in that their rate of infection is higher because of the nature of the economic status that many of them find themselves in where they're outside working, being unable to physically separate.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I don't see any option other than to start re-implementing significant levels of social distancing.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
One of the problems we face in United States is that unfortunately, there is a combination of an anti-science bias that people are -- for reasons that sometimes are, you know, inconceivable and not understandable -- they just don't believe science and they don't believe authority, so when they see someone up in the White House, which has an air of authority to White House, who's talking about science, that there are some people who just don't believe that -- and that's unfortunate because, you know, science is truth.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
What happens is that in the standard way of developing a vaccine, you don't jump to invest in the next step until you're pretty sure that the step you're in is working, given the fact that we needed to do this as quickly as possible without sacrificing safety or scientific integrity, the federal government partnered with multiple of these companies and said,' Guess what, we're going to move fast and we're going to assume we're going to be successful. And if we are, we've saved several months. And if we're not, the only thing we've lost is money. But better lose money than lose lives by delaying the vaccine.' So, right now, the initial data from the study showed that. It makes me cautiously optimistic that we can induce a response that would be protective.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
And then when they do get infected, given the social determinants of health which make it for them, have a higher incidence of diseases like hypertension, obesity, diabetes, they are at much greater risk of suffering the deleterious consequences including death.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
But if you look at the data, now that papers have come out literally two days ago, the fact that we shut down when we did and the rest of the world did, has saved hundreds of millions of infections and millions of lives, and yet, there are those who say,' You shut down, you did destructive things by disrupting the economy.' And others say,' Well, if you save so many infections by shutting down, why didn't you shut down two weeks earlier ? You could have saved many more lives.'.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
So when they see someone up in the White House, which has an air of authority to White House, who's talking about science, that there are some people who just don't believe that -- and that's unfortunate because, you know, science is truth.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Sixty-two days later, we had a product that we put into clinical trial, in a Phase I to see if it's safe and does it induce an immune response. That is overwhelmingly the quickest that has ever been done.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
When you give advice about what should you be doing -- should you be out there, should you be shutting down earlier versus later ? I mean, people get confused. And they say,' Wow, you know, we shut down and we caused a great disruption in society. We caused great economic pain, loss of jobs,'.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Even in warm weather, like in Arizona and California, we're starting to see resurgences as we open up( after shelter-at-home periods), but I think the chances of there being less of an issue in the end of July and all of August and September are much, much better than if you go into October.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I have not spoken to Larry Kudlow. I was not one of the people Larry Kudlow spoke to.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
When you're in a large crowd, if you have the congregation of people that are much, much closer to each other, you definitely increase the risk that you will either acquire or spread infections.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
But when you start seeing more hospitalizations, that's a sure fire sign that you're in a situation where you're going in the wrong direction.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
However, when you start to see increases in hospitalization, National Institute of Allergy's National Institute of Allergy that you've got to pay close attention to.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
By the end of the year, we will have a trial that has accrued a large number of people and we hopefully will get an answer, whether it works or not.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
But the preliminary data that we've seen... still indicates to me, a degree that I can have a certain amount of cautious optimism -- namely, it's inducing a response in individuals to a level that would predict that there's a good chance that it might protect.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
When you get congregations like we saw with the demonstrations, that's taking a risk.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
And we know from epidemiological studies they can transmit to someone who is uninfected even when they're without symptoms, so to make a statement to say National Institute of Allergy's National Institute of Allergy was not correct.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The coronavirus vaccine effort is progressing very well and we expect more than one candidate vaccine to be in advanced clinical testing by early summer, this is good news for the overall coronavirus vaccine effort.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
By the beginning of 2021, we hope to have a couple of hundred million doses.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We're going to start manufacturing doses of the vaccines way before we even know that the vaccine works.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I hesitate to make any broad statements about whether it is or is not quote 'safe' for kids to come back to school, when you talk about children going back to school and their safety, it really depends on the level of viral activity and the particular area that you're talking about. What happens all too often -- understandably, but sometimes misleadingly -- is that we talk about the country as a whole in a unidimensional away.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
By the beginning of 2021, we hope to have a couple hundred million doses.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It may be completely different with this coronavirus, with SARS-CoV-2, it may be that they induce a response thats quite durable.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The real business end of this all will be the Phase 3 that starts in the first week of July, hopefully, we want to get as many datapoints as we can.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Which tells us, that if the body is capable of making an immune response to clear the virus of natural infection, that's a pretty good proof of concept, having said that, there is never a guarantee.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Then, by the beginning of 2021, we hope to have a couple hundred million doses.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I'm cautiously optimistic that with the multiple candidates we have with different platforms, that we are going to have a vaccine that will make it deployable.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I hesitate to make any broad statements about whether it is or is not quote' safe' for kids to come back to school, when you talk about children going back to school and their safety, it really depends on the level of viral activity, and the particular area that you're talking about. What happens all too often, understandably, but sometimes misleadingly, is that we talk about the country as a whole in a unidimensional way.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Children can get infected, so, yes, so you've got to be careful, you got to be careful for them and you got to be careful that they may not spread it. Now, to make an extrapolation that you shouldn't open schools, I think is a bit of a reach.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
There are no well-documented cases of transmission of HIV by exchange of saliva, it is extraordinarily unlikely that a healthy person can be infected by HIV through French kissing.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I want to protect myself and protect others, and also because I want to make it be a symbol for people to see that that's the kind of thing you should be doing.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Those are the things that everybody should seriously consider doing.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
If all the cards fall into the right place and all the stars are aligned, you definitely could get a vaccine by December or January.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I think you're going to probably be seeing a little bit more of me and my colleagues, we've been talking with the communications people, and they realize we need to get some of this information out, particularly some of the scientific issues for which I'm predominantly responsible for, so hopefully we'll be seeing more of us, will get the opportunity to talk to you.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Right now, if you take southern Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, parts of Asia, South America and even parts of the Caribbean as areas that don't have the healthcare system to be able to respond the way one can respond in New York or L.A. or New Orleans or Chicago, we have really a moral responsibility for people throughout the world.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The idea of having treatments available or a vaccine to facilitate the re-entry of students into the fall term would be something that would be a bridge too far, even at the top speed we're going, we don't see a vaccine playing in the ability of individuals to get to school this term.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
There's no guarantee that the vaccine is actually going to be effective.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
What I've expressed, then and again, just my concern that if some areas, cities, states or what have you, jump over those various checkpoints and prematurely open up without having the capability of being able to respond effectively and efficiently - my concern is that we will start to see little spikes that might turn into outbreaks.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think you are correct that the number is likely higher, i don't know exactly where it sits higher, but almost certainly is higher.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
There is a real risk that you will trigger an outbreak that you may not be able to control and, in fact, paradoxically, will set you back, not only leading to some suffering and death that could be avoided, but could even set you back on the road to try to get economic recovery.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I'm Anthony Fauci, a physician and a public health official. I give advice, according to the best scientific evidence, i don't give advice about economic things.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Even at the top speed we're going, we don't see a vaccine playing in the ability of individuals getting back to school this term, what they really want is to know if they are safe.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
There is certainly not a confrontational relationship between me and the President, as I've mentioned many times, I give advice and opinion based (on) evidence-based scientific information. He hears that. He respects it. He gets opinions from a variety of other people. But in no way, in my experience over the last several months, has there been any confrontational relationship between us.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This is, this is such an important problem, it transcends all of us individually, and we have to be working as a team. And I enjoy very much working with your senators and the governors, because it's at the local level that we're going to make it work. So I am fine. I appreciate your concern.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
But you ignored the fact that they accomplished theirs at the beginning of the outbreak, while we treaded water during February and March.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I am very careful, and hopefully humble, in knowing that I don't know everything about this disease, and that's why I am very careful in making broad predictions.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
There is a real risk that you will trigger an outbreak that you may not be able to control and ... could even set you back on the road to try to get economic recovery.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
If we skip over the checkpoints in the guidelines to :' Open America Again,' then we risk the danger of multiple outbreaks throughout the country, this will not only result in needless suffering and death, but would actually set us back on our quest to return to normal.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
You got a problem there, you know why ? Because it is likely that if four of them are positive and they've been hanging around together, that the other ones that are negative are really positive. So, I mean, if you have one outlier( only one player testing positive), I think you might get away. But once you wind up having a situation where it looks like it's spread within a team, you got a real problem. You got ta shut it down.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
You cant just leap over things and get into a situation where youre really tempting a rebound.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
If you look at the evolution of the virus in bats and what's out there now,( the scientific evidence) is very, very strongly leaning toward this could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It may all of a sudden have a safety signal, if it doesn't work, it doesn't protect people. I've been involved in vaccine work for decades. Not every vaccine we went after worked.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It's the balance of something that's a very difficult choice.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
One interesting feature of this novel coronavirus pandemic is that very few children have become sick with COVID-19 compared to adults.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
If by that time we have put into place all of the countermeasures that you need to address this, we should do reasonably well, if we don't do that successfully, we could be in for a bad fall and a bad winter.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
There are some states, some cities... kind of leapfrogging over the first checkpoint. And, I mean, obviously you could get away with that, but you are making a really significant risk, i hope they can actually handle any rebound that they see.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
You don't have to wait five or six months to scale up to get enough doses, to give to a meaningful number of people, that's a risky financial circumstance, but it certainly, certainly is worth the risk given what's at stake.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
If we get in there and there are a number of infections, you can get an efficacy signal right away, which means you may know right ahead of time whether or not you have something that works.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The data shows that remdesivir has a clear-cut, significant, positive effect in diminishing the time to recovery.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The discretion is given to the governors. They know their states, the mayors know their cities, so you want to give them a little wiggle room. But my recommendation is, you know, don't wiggle too much. Try as best as you can to abide by the guidelines that were very well thought out, and very well delineated, some of them are doing that, but others are taking a bit of a chance.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We can't just leave them on their own, on the one hand, and the federal government can't do it by itself, on the other hand.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This could be a major outbreak. I hope not. Or it could be something that's reasonably well controlled, at the end of the day, this will ultimately go down. Hopefully we could protect the American public from any serious degree of morbidity or mortality. That's the reason why we've got to do the things that we have in our plan.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
At this moment, there's no need to change anything that you're doing on a day by day basis. Right now, the risk is still low.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
If by that time we have put into place all of the countermeasures that President Donald Trump need to address this, we should do reasonably well. If we don't do that successfully, we could be in for a bad fall and a bad winter.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We probably should get up to twice that as we get into the next several weeks, and I think we will.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
You would include the FDA when you want to expedite drugs or devices.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Because there is a danger of a rebound. And I know there is a desire to move ahead quickly. That's a natural human nature desire. But going ahead and leapfrogging into phases where you should not be, I would advise him as a health official and as a physician not to do that.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
What it will mean, it would protect those who have been exposed, but at the community level there would not have been enough infections to really have enough umbrella of herd immunity.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I would advise him not to just turn the switch on and go, because there is a danger of a rebound.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I would advise Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp not to just turn the switch on and go, because there is a danger of a rebound.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
People say,' Well, you know, you can't play without spectators,' well, I think you probably get enough buy-in from people who are dying to see a baseball game – particularly me.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I mean, obviously, you could logically say that if you had a process that was ongoing and you started mitigation earlier, you could have saved lives, obviously, no one is going to deny that. But what goes into those decisions is complicated.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The antibody test says you were infected and if you're feeling well, you've very likely recovered, as we look forward, as we get to the point of at least considering opening up the country as it were, it's very important to appreciate and to understand how much that virus has penetrated society.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We are hoping that by the end of the month we can look around and say, OK, is there any element here that we can safely and cautiously start pulling back on ? If so, do it. If not, then just continue to hunker down.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The Federal Government's going to be depending where you are in the country, the nature of the outbreak that you have already experienced, and the threat of an outbreak that you may not have experienced, the Federal Government is not going to be a light switch that we say, OK, it is now June, July or whatever, click, the light switch goes back on.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The Federal Government is not going to be a light switch that we say, OK, it is now June, July or whatever, click, the light switch goes back on.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We've got to continue in many respects to redouble our efforts at the mitigation of physical separation in order to keep those numbers down and hopefully even get those lower.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It is very likely that we will progress towards the steps towards normalization as we get to the end of this thirty days, and I think that's going to be a good time how quickly can we make that, hopefully by the time we get to the summer, we will have taken many steps toward that direction.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We've got to continue in many respects to redouble our efforts at the mitigation of physical separation in order to keep those numbers down.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The vaccine as Ive been saying over the past several weeks, we got into a clinician trial faster than ever, its going to take about a year to a year and a half.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
So I believe we're going to see a downturn in that, and it looks more like the 60,000 than the 100,000-200,000.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
You don't want to let up at a time that's premature, but right now we are clearly looking at if we, in fact, are as successful as we hope to be over the extended 30 day period that the President announced several days ago -- namely extending the period of restrictions and guidelines to the end of April -- that if, in fact, we are successful, it makes sense to at least plan what a reentry into normality would look like, that doesn't mean we're going to do it right now.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
My optimistic side tells me that we'll be able to renew to a certain extent, but it's going to be different, remember now, because this( disease) is not going to disappear.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I don't think anyone has ever mitigated the way I've seen people mitigate right now. It's never happened in this country before. I am optimistic. Always cautiously optimistic.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
What you're hearing about potential light at the end of the tunnel doesn't take away from the fact that tomorrow, the next day, are going to look really bad.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Viruses transmit from people to people. When people are separated from each other the virus does not transmit -- it doesn't go anywhere and that's the reason why something as simple as the physical separation... that's our most important tool, but this is what we have to do. As sobering and as difficult as this is, what we are doing is making a difference so we really need to continue to do that.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I don't understand why that's not happening, if you look at what's going on in this country, I just don't understand why we're not doing that... We really should be.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
All of a sudden, now I'm in a situation where I spend like more than an hour every day with him, i mean, we go there, we brief him, we have a press conference, we debrief after the press conference.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We argued strongly with the President that he not withdraw those guidelines after 15 days but that he extend them, and he did listen, dr. Debbie Birx and I went into together in the Oval Office and leaned over the desk and said, here are the data, take a look. He looked at them, he understood them, and he just shook his head and said, 'I guess we've got to do it.'.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Particularly now that we're getting some inklings that there's transmission of infection from an asymptomatic person who is not coughing, who is not sneezing, who just appears well. Well, then how do you think that's happening ? it very well could be aerosol. Maybe not aerosol, you know, that goes on for hours. But even the slight aerosol in which you're talking to somebody. If that's the case, we should at least look at the data and try to make a decision about that.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Something doesn't have to be 100 % effective to be beneficial.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Anything that has to do with security detail I would have to have you( ask your question) to the inspector general of HHS.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We're not there yet, but I think we're close to coming to some determination.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I don't want to be negative, this is easy to be negative about but I want to give people hope too. You know, I'm a cheerleader for the country.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Whenever you're having an effect, it's not time to take your foot off the accelerator, and that's what I hope. And I know that we can that do over the next 30 days.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
In fact, I would anticipate that that would actually happen.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We felt that if we prematurely pulled back, we would only form an acceleration or a rebound of something which would have put you behind where you were before, and that's the reason why we argued strongly with the President, that Anthony Fauci not withdraw those guidelines after 15 days, but that he extend them. And he did listen.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The idea that we may have these many cases played a role in our decision in trying to make sure that we don't do something prematurely and pull back when we should be pushing.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Anthony Fauci looked at them, Anthony Fauci understood them and Anthony Fauci just shook Anthony Fauci head and said,' I guess Doctors Birx and Fauci got to do it,'.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
After discussions with the president, we made it clear, and he agreed, that it would be much better to do what's called a strong advisory.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Dr. Debbie Birx and I went in together in the Oval Office and leaned over the desk and said, 'Here are the data. Take a look,' he looked at them and he just shook his head and said, 'I guess we got to do it.'.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
From a public health standpoint, we felt strongly that it would have been the wrong decision to pull back.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We feel the mitigation we are doing right now is having an effect, the decision to extend this mitigation process until the end of April is a wise and prudent decision.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I'm not against releasing the restrictions -- I'm actually for it in an appropriate place, but I don't recommend it unless we have the tools in place, in real time.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
A model is as good as the assumptions you put into the model, and very often, many of these assumptionsare based on a complexity of issues that arent necessarily the same... from one country to another.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Vice President Mike Pence's listening to us when we say we really got to reevaluate it, in real time, and any decision we make has to be based on the data.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Donald Trump's listening to us when we say we really got to reevaluate it, in real time, and any decision we make has to be based on the data.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
What we are starting to see is that there are some people who are younger, people your age - young, healthy, vigorous - who don't have any underlying conditions who are getting seriously ill, it's still a very, very small minority, but it doesn't mean that young people like yourself should say, 'I'm completely exempt from any risk of getting seriously ill,'.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
You need to protect yourself because you are not completely exempt from serious illness, and you can become the vector, or the carrier of infection, where you get infected, you feel well and then you inadvertently and innocently pass it on to your grandfather, your grandmother or an uncle who is on chemotherapy for cancer.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It's still a very, very small minority, but it doesn't mean that young people like yourself should say, 'I'm completely exempt from any risk of getting seriously ill,'.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We hope we get a respite as we get into April, May and June.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
You may see in a relatively shorter period of Prime Time, when you're seeing the inkling of the flattening and coming down, but you know, you can't make an arbitrary decision until you see what you're dealing with. You need the data.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Obviously, no one is going to want to tone down things when you see things going on like in New York City.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
No one is going to want to tone down things when you see what's going on in a place like New York City.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I don't consider the balancing act, i just give public health advice, completely clean unconnected with everything else.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I would wish that would stop because we have a much bigger problem here than trying to point out differences, theyrereally fundamentally at the core when you look at things, they are not differences.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The president was trying to bring hope to the people. I think theres this issue of [ the media ] trying to separate the two of us. There isnt fundamentally a difference there.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I keep saying, 'Is there any way we can get a virtual press conference?' thus far, no. But when you're dealing with the White House, sometimes you have to say things one, two, three, four times, and then it happens. So, I'm going to keep pushing.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I'm sort of exhausted, but other than that, I'm good. I mean, I'm not, to my knowledge, coronavirus infected. To my knowledge, I haven't been fired.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
OK, he said it. Let's try and get it corrected for the next time.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I don't think with any moral conscience you could say,' Why don't we just let it rip and happen and let X percent of the people die,'.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The way it happened is that after [President Trump] made that statement [suggesting China could have revealed the discovery of a new coronavirus threeto fourmonths earlier], I told the appropriate people, it doesnt comport, because twoor threemonths earlier would have been September, the next time they sit down with him and talk about what hes going to say, they will say, By the way, Mr. President, be careful about this and dont say that. But I cant jump in front of the microphone and push him down. OK, he said it. Lets try and get it corrected for the next time.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I, on the other side, have said I'm not disagreeing with the fact anecdotally they might work, but my job is to prove definitively from a scientific standpoint that they do work, so I was taking a purely medical, scientific standpoint and The President was trying to bring hope to the people.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Yes, it is possible. Our job, our challenge is to try and make that not happen. But to think, if we go about our daily lives and not worry about everything, that it's not going to happen -- it could happen. And it could be worse.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It is correct that the infections are going to go up. Our job is to make sure it doesn't do the maximum peak and actually blunts. Within that blunt there will be many new infections. We want to make sure we don't get to that really bad peak.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Younger people should be concerned for two reasons. You are not immune or safe from getting seriously ill. Even though when you look at the total numbers, it's overwhelmingly weighted towards the elderly and those with underlying conditions. But the virus isn't a mathematical formula. There are going to be people who are young who are going to wind up getting seriously ill. So protect yourself.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think Americans should be prepared that they are going to have to hunker down significantly more than we as a country are doing.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The idea of anybody getting it( a test) easily, the way people in other countries are doing it, we're not set up for that, do I think we should be ? Yes, but we're not.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
That is a failing. Let's admit it, the idea of anybody getting it easily the way people in other countries are doing it, we're not set up for that.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We would like the country to realize that as a nation, we cant be doing the kinds of things we were doing a few months ago.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
It really depends. Vice President Biden are having, as Vice President Biden've all said, this is something in motion. This is an evolving thing.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I would encourage any individual who is elderly or is medically fragile to think long and hard about going to any large gathering that would involve close quarters and potential spread. And if they do go, to take appropriate personal hygiene protections.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We would like the country to realize that as a nation, we can't be doing the kinds of things we were doing a few months ago. It doesn't matter if you're in a state that has no cases or one case.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
If and when the infections will come -- and they will come, sorry to say, sad to say -- when you're dealing with an infectious disease... we want to be where the infection is going to be, as well as where it is.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I don't imagine that the degree of the draconian nature of what the Chinese did would ever be either feasible, applicable, doable or whatever you want to call it in the United States.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
If you're a person with an underlying condition and you are particularly an elderly person with an underlying condition, you need to think twice about getting on a plane, on a long trip, and not only think twice, just don't get on a cruise ship.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It's possible, you know, you don't want to alarm people, but given the spread we see, you know, anything is possible. And that's the reason why we've got to be prepared to take whatever action is appropriate to contain and mitigate the outbreak.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Unfortunately, that better sense is not encouraging because we're seeing community spread, and whenever you see community spread, you can do contact tracing, but as more community spread it becomes logistically more difficult.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
In the next couple of weeks we should be ratcheted up to get many more out.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Michael Phillips could have missed one or two cases, but not entire cohorts.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
If we have a pandemic, then almost certainly we are going to get impacted.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
When that happens, then you have the makings of a pandemic, what Nancy Messonnier was saying was that being the case, if United States have a pandemic, almost certainly United States are going to get impacted.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The earliest you could even know if it's going to work is a year.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
My bottom line is the way this is continuing to evolve every day, it looks like it's heading towards what we would call a pandemic.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
To my knowledge, we have not seen the precise minute, granular data and how they collected it, we need to get to the real bottom line of how they collected their data and see if it's valid.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It means we do have now what looks like treatments for a disease which, not too long ago, we really had no therapeutic approach at all.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
What this means is that we do now have what look like (two) treatments for a disease for which not long ago we really had no approach at all.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
If you miss a dose or two it is unlikely that there is going to be a gap in protection.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I consider it an irony that you have one of the most contagious viruses known to man juxtaposed against one of the most effective vaccines they have, yet we don't do and have not done what could be done - namely eliminate eradicate the virus.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I'd rather be on the single pill a day with very little toxicities than risk something as draconian as a transplant.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The security issue is really having a major negative impact on the ability to respond in an appropriate way, in the classic way that you respond to an Ebola outbreak, to be able to essentially get to the point where you diminish it, diminish it, diminish it, and then it's gone.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The problem is that more than half of the new infections that are coming into the Ebola treatment units are individuals who have no connection to any contact. So we don't know where or how they got infected.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
So the good news is that we have a tool we didn't have in the West African outbreak. The sobering news is that we're not able to implement it as extensively as we want to because we don't have access to all the contacts of the contacts of the contacts, because new cases are coming in that we can't trace to any known case.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We'll know probably by the end of 2020, the beginning of 2021, whether or not we do have a successful universal flu vaccine.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
One of the most important things about flu that we all have learned through experience is that it is generally unpredictable, that's the nature of flu.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Influenza is really a unique virus, so different from diseases like measles and polio that stay essentially stable, and you just got to vaccinate once or get infected, and essentially, you're good for life. That's not the case with flu. It's very complicated with flu.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Even though flu seasons are unpredictable, not always but often, we can get a hint of what we're going to face from what people in Australia and the southern hemispheres have faced in their winter, which is essentially our summer.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
We're watching very closely to see if there's any suggestion of any increasing trend in pertussis.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Someone who is probably a rural worker in the woods, in the forest, in the jungle gets bit by a mosquito who is infected with yellow fever but likely got it from a monkey, so it goes from animal to human, but it doesn't get into the population of Aedes aegypti, which are very frequent in the big cities like Rio de Janeiro.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
He will probably do it on a prorated basis across the Institutes.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The regular appropriations process takes too long, i don’t want to wait to have to develop a vaccine.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
It would not be surprising at all - if not likely - that we're going to see a bit of that, we're talking about scores of cases, dozens of cases, at most.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There are only individual case reports of significant neurological damage to people not just the fetuses but an adult that would get infected. Things that they call meningoencephalitis, which is an inflammation of the brain and the covering around the brain, spinal cord damage due to what we call myelitis, so far they look unusual, but at least we've seen them and that's concerning.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It is likely we will have what is called a local outbreak.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Right now in the United States they should not be that concerned. We do not have local outbreaks.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There was one very discreet stretch of the protein on the envelope that is really different than the other flaviviruses, that is like a big red flag.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
They haven't proven it yet, but it is a very important first clue.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
That is really unfortunate, because that’s the vulnerable group that can benefit most from PrEP.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The absolute definitive proof will come from case-controlled studies, and those usually take months.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
These are all things that need to be carefully examined in natural history and case-control studies.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We can predict that we would likely be in Phase One trial just to determine if it's safe and if it induces a good response probably by the end of the summer, if it looks like it's safe, we'll go to the next stage.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
What we're all trying to do is in one test is determine is it Zika, and is it Zika alone, we don't have those tests yet, but we're trying to develop them.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
When there are many unknowns, there is a lot of fear and concern in the community, that's exactly what we are seeing now with Zika.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
While in development, it's important to understand we won't have a vaccine this year or even in the next few years, although we may be able to have a clinical trial start this calendar year.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We're already talking to a few companies who are able to partner with us in advanced development.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We will see little mini-outbreaks like in Florida or in Texas that can be well-controlled with mosquito vector control. Hopefully, we will not see anything worse than that.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Don't forget that we have an advantage in that most parts of our country go through significant winter, that kills the mosquitos right off. And we handle local outbreaks in warm places like Florida with quick containment and eradication.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
And it's determined by officials in Brazil that peak mosquito transmitting time is in April, so we haven't begun to see the full impact of this outbreak.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
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