The only place you should really not go now, "said Dr. Fauci
"We simply ask people to just be cautious and be careful," he says.
With more than 3,000 coronavirus-related deaths per day in America, COVID surge is real and planned to worsen. And now, Christmas is here - and with it, the possibility of another pushing of Covid on overvoltage.Dr. Anthony FauciThe first expert on the infectious disease of the nation, does not want to be a "grinch" and "cancel Christmas" but it begs you to face reality: the coronavirus spreads from person to the person. Be around people - even grandmother - and someone can get sick and die, or be debilicated. Maybe someone you know.
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The only place you should not really go now
Dr. Faisci first implores you to follow certain simple but effective public health measures, including the "uniform carrier of masks, avoiding the narrow contacts, keeping the distance, avoid gathering settings with many people, especially to the interior and wash your hands as frequently as you can, "said FauciWolf Blitzer on CNN. "I know everyone wants to come back to the time when Christmas was a situation where you could have a lot, many guests, indoors to gather, having fun together - the situation is different."
He clarified what he asks here. "Now we do not want to cancel Christmas. Every time I talk about paying attention, someone will say," Well, he wants to cancel Christmas. "I do not want to do that. I want people to be more cautious. I want them to limit to travel as far as possible. And when you commit yourself, try to do it with a limited number of people, preferably People in the same household or a few loved ones who you know, are also very careful, avoid 20, 25 people in a house, a big setting. "This is the only place you should really not go now: inside, with many people you do not stay.
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Dr. Fuci says "Be careful" now because there is a "light at the end of the tunnel"
Fauci calls this behavior "quite risky" and if you can avoid it now "we can do it now and pass this season, enjoy it as far as you can, but it will not be like a normal Christmas season. As we succeed, the light at the end of the tunnel is the vaccine. "
Fauci has been administered the modern vaccine itself on Tuesday. The vaccine against Pfizer is also available. The average Jane and Joe can start from April, he promises.
"As we arrive in February, March, April and in the summer, we will reach a point when we really approach normal. And as we will do, we can come back to some of the customs of valuable sharing, things That we love ... Claimant, it's a difficult and very different situation [now]. So we simply ask people to just be cautious and pay attention. "
Stay at home - or otherwise, at least one risk assessment
Back in November, Fauci said a risk assessment before Thanksgiving and it can apply at Christmas. Fuci knows that he is tempting to have grandmother or your BFF. "It's a natural reaction to say, now wait a minute. I know these people, you know, they are friends they enter," he says on CBS 'Face the nation. "You tend to leave you almost intuitively and instinctively let you leave your guard. Now you do not want to say that no one can enter, but you can have people who have their own protective cloves. People who could put themselves in quarantine, which could have a test, but in general, where I would recommend them. And I did it every day - that's telling families to take a moment to do a moment to do what I call a determination of risks. If I have someone at home, who is elderly, someone who has an underlying condition - do I really want to put that person at a risk of someone who could innocently or inadvertently infect them? Because we clearly know that people who do not have symptoms are clearly capable and transmit infection. Think about that for a moment, the risk now, in relation to the long scope of what could you do. "So do this and protect your life and the lives of others, do not visit any of these35 places you are most likely to catch Covid.
