- Coronavirus transmission can be stopped and the curve can become flat, insists Dr. Anthony Fauci in a broad interview that Brown University hosts on YouTube.
- Wearing face masks, social distance, and hand hygiene are one of the few important steps needed to reduce the number of infections.
- Mar Dr. Fauci also identified the important issue that needs to be addressed so that the country does not go into a disaster in an autumn or winter.
America accounts for more than 25% of global coronavirus infections as of Saturday morning, with nearly 5.1 million confirmed cases out of the 19.6 million worldwide cases. And COVID-19 is still being distributed at alarming rates in several states. The infection rate seems to reach a plateau, but there are no guarantees with this particular pathogen. The massive eruptions that began a few months ago when economies reopened proved that you can never be too cautious.
As the northern hemisphere arrives in the fall and winter, health officials everywhere will begin to prepare for a nightmare scenario. It will not only be COVID-19 circulating freely in communities, but also the flu, a virus that thrives in cold weather. If left untreated, the new coronavirus will continue to plague hospitals and some regions may experience a secondary flu epidemic on top of COVID-19.
Talking to the Dr. Ashish K. Jha, Brown University, the incoming dean of the School of Public Health, said Drs. Anthony Fauci that the country needs to do one thing to prevent a catastrophe in the fall or winter.
Fauci cited Arizona’s ability to flatten the curve of the massive outbreak that began in July, saying the same five or six “fundamental principles” of prevention apply everywhere. These are “universal wearing a mask, physical distance, avoiding crowds, outdoors is better than indoors, wash your hands,” said the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
‘Stay away from bars,’ Fauci continued. “Bars are bad news when it comes to distribution. I’ll just repeat it ‘until I’m tired. Those things work, ‘he added, referring to those principles.
“I strongly believe, and I will say very clearly, that we should not shut up completely if we do things right. I believe we can open the economy, get jobs back, get people out of the doldrums to be locked up. If we do it carefully, cautiously, and the way the guidelines say. ”
He then focused on the clear violation between the scientific approach of dealing with a pandemic and the political messages, which causes this idea that is either a complete lockdown or a completely open economy.
“Anyone who says we are not living in a divisive era in our country does not pay attention to what is happening in our country,” said the public health expert. ‘So what happened … instead of saying,’ Let’s use the principles of public health as a car to open up the country, ‘it was as if there were public health principles, and then’ the country is open ‘, and they are not synergistic with each other. ”
He went on to say, ‘We really need to get to the point where the one is not the enemy of the … one is a gate to the other. I call myself a realist. But I am also a cautious optimist. And I think if we can unite the country somehow to do that together, I do not think we should go into autumn and winter think we have a catastrophe. We could go into autumn and winter looks good when we do certain things. ”
The full interview is available below:
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