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I know that another surge is coming and will be coming across the world.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
... You don’t single out a group and blame what occurs on that group. It is your responsibility to get in with that group, to talk to that group, to listen to that group and come to a place where that group can agree to an understanding on the role of vaccines, we should not be stigmatizing and further putting people in a box that implies that they somehow don’t have - - that they’re somehow not processing the information….
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I was so frustrated that I realized that the only way, if I could not get a voice internally, that I could get a voice out at the state level because I could see the governors on the governor's call weekly and I could see how deeply they were concerned about every one of their citizens.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Right now, across the Sun Belt, we have governors and mayors who have cases equivalent to what they had in the summertime yet aren’t putting in the same policies and mitigations that they put in the summer, that they know changed the course of this pandemic across the South.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I want to be very frank to the American people. The vaccine is critical. But it’s not going to save us from the current surge, only we can save us from this current surge.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I hear community members parroting back those situations, parroting back that masks don't work, parroting back that The President should work towards herd immunity, parroting back that gathering doesn't result in super spreading events.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It is because of this asymptomatic spread that we are asking people to wear a mask indoors.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This is more cases, more rapidly, than what we had seen before, deborah Birx can see the increase in test positivity to around 10 %.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
What we are seeing today is different from March and April, it is extraordinarily widespread.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
There are cities that are lagging behind and we have new increases in Miami, New Orleans, Las Vegas, San Jose, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Cleveland, Nashville, Pittsburgh, Columbus, and Baltimore, so we're tracking this very closely.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
If Anthony Fauci look around the globe, the way people are doing a million tests or 10 million tests is they're doing pooling, pooling would give us the capacity to go from a half a million tests a day to potentially 5 million individuals tested per day by those poolings.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
If Robert Redfield look across all of the tests that we've done... the portion that has been the lowest-tested portion is the under-10-year-olds.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We know the mortality rate in under-25 from the CDC data is less than 0.1 %, and so that has been holding, but until we know how many have been infected, we have no evidence that there is significant mortality in children without coexisting diseases. And that's what we're looking for right now, is to really make sure we've overturned every rock and understand that in deep detail.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
If you look across all of the tests that we've done... the portion that has been the lowest-tested portion is the under-10-year-olds, parents have done an amazing job of protecting their children.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
If you look across all of the tests that we've done... the portion that has been the lowest-tested portion is the under-10-year-olds, so we're putting into place other ways to get testing results from them and... try to really figure this out.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I know some of you watch what I wear, i'm wearing this specially today.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It's up to him to determine what to do with that information, to take what we hear from Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Deborah Birx and others, take what Anthony Fauci values in their opinion and come to the ultimate consensus that's best for this country.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We have gone from about 1,000 tests a day to now over 500,000 tests a day in less than three months, but still we need innovation in testing and I think it's more than just more platforms and more tests, if you look around the globe, the way people are doing a million tests or 10 million tests is they're doing pooling.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
What we have said to people is there is clear scientific evidence now, by all the droplet experiments that happened, and that others have done, to show that a mask does prevent droplets from reaching others.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I've asked everybody independently to really make sure that you're wearing a mask if you can't maintain the six feet, i'm assuming that in a majority of cases, he's able to maintain that six feet distance.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We are asking continuously for you all to be outside, to enjoy your Memorial Day weekend ; to play golf ; to hike as Dr.( Anthony) Fauci said ; to play tennis with marked balls -- and to be out with your families that you have been in the household with ; and even consider sharing socially distanced space as long as you have utensils that belong to individuals and that maybe can be thrown out immediately.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Certainly people that have significant co-morbidities, President Donald Trump want them protected. I know those houses of worship want to protect them, so really ensuring that -- maybe they can't go this week if there's high number of Covid cases. Maybe they wait another week, but there is a way to social distance like Deborah Birx are here.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Memorial Day weekend's very important to maintain that six feet distance and very important to have your mask with you in case that six feet distance can not be maintained, we are asking continuously for you all to be outside, to enjoy your Memorial Day weekend ; to play golf ; to hike as Dr.( Anthony) Fauci said ; to play tennis with marked balls -- and to be out with your families that you have been in the household with ; and even consider sharing socially distanced space as long as you have utensils that belong to individuals and that maybe can be thrown out immediately.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think each one of the leaders in the faith community should be in touch with their local health department so they can communicate to their congregants. Certainly, people that have significant comorbidities, we want them protected. I know those houses of worship want to protect them, maybe they can't go this week if there's high numbers of Covid cases. Maybe they wait another week. But there is a way to social distance... in places of worship.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The intent is ... if someone dies with COVID-19 we are counting that.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
It's devastatingly worrisome to me personally if they go home and infect their grandmother or their grandfather who has a comorbid condition and they have a serious or a very - or an unfortunate outcome, they will feel guilty for the rest of our lives.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We've made it clear that that is not a good phase one activity.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
You can see what it did with the nursing home fatality rates. I mean, it's remarkable.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
He went into the nursing homes to proactively test, you can see what it did with the nursing home fatality rates. I mean, it's remarkable.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Our projections have always been between 100-240,000 American lives lost and that's with full mitigation and us learning from each other of how to social distance.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
There will never be the ability on a nucleic acid test to do 300 million tests a day or to test everybody before they go to work or to school, but there might be with the antigen test.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This RNA testing will carry us, certainly, through the spring and summer, but we need to have a huge technology breakthrough, and we're working on that at the same time.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I know corporations and diagnostics are working on that now. We have to have a breakthrough.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
There's capacity, that tests are not being run. And I think ensuring that they have the swabs, ensuring that they have the tubes to transport the swabs in, and then ensuring that all the laboratory platforms are up and running, and that's the information we gave to the governors.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
For every lab, though, they're now -- they now have six or seven platforms that they have to integrate and utilize. And labs are learning now how to bring all of those platforms up to hopefully double and increase our testing ability across the country, and to really align the needs, there's capacity, that tests are not being run. And I think ensuring that they have the swabs, ensuring that they have the tubes to transport the swabs in, and then ensuring that all the laboratory platforms are up and running, and that's the information we gave to the governors.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Those outliers always exist, but right now we don't have( any) evidence that that's a common thing that we see.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Hes been so attentive to the scientific literature and the details and the data, i think his ability to analyze and integrate data that comes out of his long history in business has really been a real benefit during these discussions about medical issues.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
That's to give states really the time to really set up exactly how they're going to contact trace with the( Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) in the background as supporting.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
So every day we need to continue to do what we did yesterday, and the week before, and the week before that, because that's what in the end is going to take us up across the peak and down the other side.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
But as encouraging as they are, we have not reached the peak. And so every day we need to continue to do what we did yesterday, and the week before and the week before that because that's what in the end is going to take us across the peak and down the other side.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
You can see for the first time in the United States we're starting to level on the logarithmic phase like Italy did about a week ago. This gives us great heart, not only in specific places, but we're starting to see that change.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We believe that our health care delivery system in United States is quite extraordinary.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Because of you two, i mean, you can't take that kind of risk with the leaders of the country.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This is the moment to not be going to the grocery store, not going to the pharmacy, but doing everything you can to keep your family and your friends safe.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The next two weeks are extraordinarily important, this is the moment to not be going to the grocery store, not going to the pharmacy, but doing everything you can to keep your family and your friends safe, and that means everybody doing the six feet distancing, washing your hands.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Until you really understand how many people are asymptomatic and asymptomatically passing the virus on, we think it's better for the entire American public to know that the risk of serious illness may be low.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The medical community made -- interpreted the Chinese data as: This was serious, but smaller than anyone expected because I think probably we were missing a significant amount of data, now that what we see happened to Italy and see what happened to Spain.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Each of our behaviors translating into something that changes the course of this viral pandemic over the next 30 days.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Even if you dont think ... theres a virus there, it probably is, we dont think any city will be spared from this virus.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The president wanted everyone to know where this virus is so that people would be aware if they were gonna travel to that area, that that area had a very significant amount of COVID-19 or the coronavirus, and so its really to make Americans aware about traveling to New York, but also make it clear to the people who are in that area to protect them selves following the guidelines, to really stay home and really hunker down, stay at home and really follow the washing of your hands and not touching your face.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Some are developed now. We are looking at the ones in Singapore, we are very quality-oriented. We don't want false positives.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
In other words, can we use our data in a laser-focused granular way to really look at what's happening on the ground and adjust our public health messages based on what is actually needed by the number of cases and the work that we're doing with the communities.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The question is really can we be laser focused rather than generic across the country ?
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The question is really can we be laser focused rather than generic across the country? in other words, can we use our data in a laser-focused granular way to really look at what's happening on the ground and adjust our public health messages based on what is actually needed by the number of cases and the work that we're doing with the communities.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Each state and each hotspot in the United States is going to be its own curve, because the seeds came in at different times, so, Washington state is on their curve they're about two weeks ahead of New York.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
That doesn't mean that Fox News will show promise in Americans, fox News showed promise in the test tubes. We are very interested in making sure we have eliminated red tape to make the drug available through their physicians, and study it at the same time. At the same time, we are doing clinical trials on other products we think also will show promise.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
[ It was ] probably a GI thing, but you know, I'm meticulous. I'm a physician, i got a test late Saturday night, and I'm negative. I stayed home another day just to make sure. That's how we protect one another.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
There are concerning reports coming out of France and Italy about some young people getting seriously ill and very seriously ill in the ICUs, we think part of this may be that people heeded the early data coming out of China and coming out of South Korea of the elderly or those with preexisting medical conditions were a particular risk.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
And then let's do everything that we can to ensure that we don't need the ventilators, because we protected the people who would have needed to use them.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
As we track down these outbreaks, if we see that that is happening from flight travel, then I think the president will react but we don't have enough information right now to suggest that.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We're looking very carefully at the data every day and that's why you see this escalation in guidelines from the president.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
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