Dr. Faisci warns Covid can be "mortal"
You must worry about coronaviruses, despite the Trump message has been widespread, says Fauci.
President Donald Trump is the most visible public figure to infect with COVID-19 so far in the pandemic. However, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the main infectious infectious expert and key member of the working group on the coronavirus of the White House, warns that the use of his experience and his rapid recovery of the virus - who killed more than 215 000 Americans in just 8 months - could prove to be a mortal error. Read on and do not miss theseWithout signs that you have already had coronavirus.
Covid-19 is not always a "benign disease"
During an interview withStatistical, Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases explained that the rapid recovery of the President and an apparently light infection is not a good representation of the virus.
"We are all pleased that the President of the United States would suffer any significant consequences," said Fauci. "But ... because it is a figure so visible, it amplifies some of this misunderstanding that people have a benign disease and no one has anything to fear."
Due to the fact that the virus affects different people in different ways - some feel from zero symptoms, others are at the height of a respirator who are fighting for their lives, while others, have Followed "long lengths", often undergo a lightweight infection followed by the end of the scary symptoms - it is dangerous to use the experience of a person for example.
"It's just a lot of comprehensive mixed signals, it's either serious, but not serious. It's fatal or it's not deadly. For me, it was the scourge to try to pass a message To people, "he said. "This is a problem that goes well beyond the President's illness."
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"Wear a mask, avoid crowds"
After announcing its infection less than two weeks ago, Trump has received rapid medical attention, including to be hospitalized, administered multiple medicines (an experimental antibody cocktail, remedy antiviral drugs and steroid dexamethasone. Steroids. ) and even additional oxygen. Although these treatments are likely to undergo a rapid recovery of its rapid recovery, it has minimized the severity of the disease in general.
Fuci added that he was trying to educate people - mainly younger adults - that the virus can not only threaten their lives, but the lives of others.
"It's just something I've had trouble with some time in the messaging, when you try to go to the young people and say they" wear a mask, avoid crowds. "And they say," Well, what's the difference if I'm infected? The overwhelming probability is that I will not have seriously affected. So who cares? "" He says.
"And what they do not seize is that in infection, they propagate the epidemic," he continued. And propagating the hatching sooner or later, a vulnerable person will be infected. It's a big deal. As for yourself, to cross this pandemic at your healthier, do not miss these35 places you are most likely to catch Covid.