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Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases: ‘When they quit, they quit like,’ Bang! ‘When we closed, it was never at the level that the Asian countries did. ‘
Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, delivered some dumb messages to the public during an online video interview with actor Matthew McConaughey. There are three main reasons why many island nations and Asian countries, such as New Zealand, Singapore and South Korea, have contracted the coronavirus, he said.
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In addition to social distance and masks, he said, these countries have taken many right approaches to address their respective outbreaks, and as a result have created the right environment to start reopening their economies. Public health and economic health are not mutually exclusive, he added, as a matter of or / or. This, said Fauci, is what we can teach these countries:
1. Outdoors is better than indoor: In an interview on Instagram (FB) on Thursday, McConaughey asked Fauci if certain smaller island nations have had more success with coronavirus because residents spend more time outdoors. He replied, “It is conceivable that this is the case.” Fauci added that outside is the favorite for sports, restaurants and school classes.
Fauci also said that striving for 100% herd immunity – as Sweden sought – instead of closing schools and businesses to flatten the curve of new cases of COVID-19 would have far-reaching consequences for the American people. “If everyone has the contract, a lot of people will die,” the doctor said. “The death toll would be enormous and completely unacceptable.”
Anders Tegnell, the Swedish epidemiologist who managed the plan, acknowledged that the country had made a mistake. “If we could face the same disease with the same knowledge we have today, I think our reaction would be somewhere between what Sweden did and what the rest of the world did,” he said in June when the country hit highest cause of death in Europe.
In a separate Facebook Live conversation with Rhode Island Gina Raimondo government, Fauci said windows should remain open on school buses, and students should wear their masks as much as possible. “When you look at the superspreader events that have taken place, they are almost always inside,” he said, noting major outbreaks at nursing homes, meat parcels, prisons and weddings.
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2. Decide to stop outbreaks: Asked why so many Asian countries have had relative success in controlling COVID-19 outbreaks, Fauci said, “When they shut down, they shut out like, ‘Bang!’ When we quit, it was never at the level that the Asian countries did. ”Fauci said the stop / start and different approach to quitting in the US did not work so well.
Fauci also said it is not a simple choice between public health and economic health. ‘The faster you pull together and come down, the faster you return to normal. We are all together in this. Unless we do this together, we will not get it under control, ‘he said. “To think that you can ignore the biological and get the economy back, it will not happen. You have to do both. ‘
The U.S. can no longer afford to prolong the virus’ rise as it did in the fall, health professionals say. For one, it is more difficult to get people to exercise social distance and stay home again, especially after they have already been followed by instructions to stay home in the early part of the first wave of the virus. Southern and western states have experienced a spike in cases after relaxing measures.
Second, the effect on the economy could push the US into a prolonged recession, even greater than what was already predicted by some economists. Third, the flu season will already be upon us in the winter and those symptoms will be easily confused with those of COVID-19. Fourth, too few people will be immune to COVID-19 after this first wave ends to support herd immunity.
Actor Matthew McConaughey interviewed last Thursday night specializing in infectious disease Dr Anthony Fauci on Instagram.
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3. Tracing of contracts helps to stop the transmission of the community. Fauci said it is vital to create the conditions for authorities to allow contact, and to prevent community transmission. He used sports as an example. “If you are in a red zone where the virus level is so high, you need to make sure that you are normally trying to do sports, but the chances are high that you will infect people,” he said.
Young people who play or attend sporting events are more likely to be ‘superspreaders’ and behave as if they are not the virus and are the source of community transmissions, Fauci said in the 40-minute interview. “Many of them will be young so they do not get sick. They go out into the community. At that point, he said, the origin of the spread is much harder to trace.
Countries such as South Korea, New Zealand and China – where the virus is thought to have originated in a food market in Wuhan last year – appear to be more successful in the battle of COVID-19. Earlier this week, for example, New Zealand moved quickly to shut down Auckland following the return of COVID after 102 days of reporting no new infections.
“Act when you have COVID, and when people around you have COVID,” Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told a news conference. The island nation moved quickly and decisively to respond to the pandemic, banning non-New Zealand citizens who traveled from China before there were cases in the country, and those citizens who arrived from China were forced to 14 days in quarantine.
Coronavirus update: COVID-19 has now killed at least 776,157 people worldwide, and the US ranks 10th in the world for deaths per 100,000 people (51.5), says Johns Hopkins University. As of Monday, the US has the highest number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the world (5,408,268) and deaths (170,131). Worldwide, confirmed cases are now at 21,720,713.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) lost ground on Monday, while the S&P 500 (SPX) crept up and the Nasdaq Composite (COMP) achieved a three-figure gain as investors hope for progress on the fax front and a fresh round of unemployment benefits in Round 2 of the Congress Pandemic Relief Program.
AstraZeneca (AZN) in combination with Oxford University; BioNTech SE (BNTX) and partner Pfizer (PFE); GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Johnson & Johnson (JNJ); Merck & Co. (ID: NOTE); Modern (MRNA); and Sanofi (SAN) are among those currently working on COVID-19 faxes.
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