during this year's virtual edition of the annual New Yorker Festival, Fauci was asked about Trump's tweet earlier on Monday, in which the president said he was"feeling really good!" after testing positive for COVID-19 and told his followers,"Don’t be afraid of Covid. ...
"Obviously, it is a very unusual pathogen that can have virtually no effect, in the sense that 40 to 45 percent of people can be without symptoms. And then for those who have symptoms, the overwhelming majority are mild," said Fauci of the science behind COVID-19 when asked about Trump's tweet on Monday night.
He continued,"You look at the now 210,000 people in the United States of America who have died, and you talk about the 7 million who have been infected; the one million who have died globally. I think anybody who is looking at this realistically has to say this is a very serious situation. Even though it's confused by the fact that such a substantial portion of people generally do quite well. But it is a very serious disease that we need to reckon with.
When Specter pressed Fauci about Trump's messaging, asking if the takeaway should instead be to take care and get rest, Fauci said,"Obviously, the message should be that we should try as best as we can to avoid infection. No matter who you are, how old you are, or what your underlying condition is, we should not trivialize it."
To underscore that point, Fauci predicted that while a return"normal" life will eventually happen, he says the pandemic protocols currently in place will go on for"months and months" until a majority of the population is vaccinated."I don't think we're going to be back to normal until the end of 2021," he says."We may do better than that — I hope so, but I don't think so.
Blah blah blah. This guy should run far far away. Who the hell really listens to this fake? BillGatesBioTerrorist Corruption
His only job was to protect the president. You’re FIRED !
This is a deep state 🐀FauciFraud
Trump will always make it about him. When he says he cares about American lives, he's lying. Any other leader would work to get us out of this mess. Trump openly encourages perpetuating it.
even the 'expert' Dr.Fauci forced to said after Mr.President walks out of Walter Reed 'the recovery rate of the infected r variously different to everyone'. COVID19 RecoveryWorks
It’s like watching natural selection at work in the US
Yessiree, bob!
“Hubris and science are incompatible.” -Douglas Preston
Fauci Knows his shit college education 👍
He should resign in protest now after this display tonight
Can we at least dial the Panic-O-Meter down from 11 to 4 or 5?
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