Dr. Anthony Fauci said he does not believe that the coronavirus can be eradicated, given the rapidity with which the contagion is spread among humans.
“I don’t see this going away as SARS 1 did,” Fauci said Wednesday at a live broadcast event organized by the TB Alliance, a nonprofit organization that investigates treatments for tuberculosis.
“The reason I say that is that it is so efficient in its ability to transmit from human to human that I think we will finally control it,” added the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. “I really don’t see us eradicating it.”
Fauci said bringing the coronavirus pandemic to a manageable point depends on three things.
“I think with a combination of good public health measures, a degree of herd immunity in the herd and a good vaccine, which I hope and feel cautiously optimistic that we will get, I think that when we put them together, I think you will get very good control of this, “he said.
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