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Patrick Semansky
“The deaths are real deaths,” Fauci said on ABC’s This Week.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, rejected US President Donald Trump’s Twilight Zone version of the Covid-19 outbreak, saying “don’t run from the numbers.”
“The deaths are real deaths,” the doctor said Sunday in This week’s ABC. “All you need to do is go out into the trenches, go to the hospitals, see what the health workers are up against. They are in situations of great stress in many areas of the country, hospital beds are stretched out.
Fauci had been asked about a tweet from Trump stating that the number of Covid-19 cases and deaths in the country was “exaggerated” due to the “ridiculous method of determination of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of USA Compared to Other Countries. “
As with other claims that downplay the scope of the outbreak, which had claimed more than 350,000 lives in the US As of Monday (NZT), the lame commander-in-chief did not provide evidence for his claim.
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“Having 300,000 cases on any given day and between two and 3,000 deaths a day is just terrible,” said Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases.
“There is no way to escape the numbers.” “It’s something that we absolutely have to grab and put our arms around and reverse that inflection through very intense adherence to public health measures, uniformly, across the country, without exception.”
When asked about the rate of vaccination against the coronavirus in the country, Fauci acknowledged “a couple of technical problems.”
“I think it’s just about launching a massive vaccine program and getting off on the right foot,” he said. “In the last 72 hours, they have received 1.5 million doses in people’s arms, which is an average of about 500,000 per day, which is much better than at the beginning when it was much, much less than that.
“We are not where we want to be, there is no question about it, but I think we can get there if we really accelerate, take a little momentum and see what happens as we go into the first weeks of January.” added.
– New York Daily News
