Dr Fauci sees signs of a new thrust of Covid
Cases are increasing and "when it happens, you will have a thrust."
During a week in which the 19-Covid deaths exceeded 200,000 USDr. Anthony Fauci, The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is concerned. He spoke with Cofounder of the COVID monitoring project author of the Atlantic and Atlantic employee, Alexis Madrigal, to the virtualAtlantic FestivalWhy we should all worry about a new surge and what we can do to stop it. Read on and ensure your health and health of others, do not miss theseWithout signs that you have already had coronavirus.
Dr. Fauci said that our situation is "no good, no matter how you cut it"
"Obviously, the numbers speak for themselves," he said. Once the northeast was hard, the area "fell to a weak base and remained low, which is good. They have suffered a lot. But right now, they are well placed," Fauci said. "The situation we are then entered is an embarrassment." He says that some states have opened their economies too soon - something he has admitted that we "must do" for some reason, but "some did not adhere strictly to the guidelines that we have presented ... People States and cities really does not "t careful, and has essentially gone without masks and gathered in bars. And you saw the baseline, which was about 20 000 per day, which is unacceptably high. He got progressively 30, 40, 50 and rose further to a point more than 70 000 cases per day. Then, as things begin to turn around, when people realized that they really needed to do some of the things we said so measured, it fell to about 30 to 40, but at the moment it is still stuck between 35 and 40 000 per day. This is not good, no matter how you cut it, that's not good. "
Dr Fauci sees signs of a new thrust of Covid
Dr. Faisci praised Vermont and the Navajo Nation this week to have responded admirably to the increase in business. "There are areas of the country are going well, we should let them be models, but there are others -.. You start to see an optimistic test positivity And we know from historical observation retrospectively when this happens, you "Regez have a surge. so, as I said many times, Alexis, the fact is that if you make simple public health measures, universal masks use of physical distancing, avoid crowds, to do things in a more than inside if possible and wash your hands: it looks like it is very simplistic, but we know that when we do so constant, we prevent overvoltage and we transform them. "
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Dr. Faisci is supremely worried about the fall and winter
"The concern I have now," he said, "is that we enter the fall and winter. And that means that there will be more domestic things things outdoors . and up in that situation, I would like saw the basis of where we are, the daily number of extension infections, low and do not be so stuck to from 30 to 40 000 per day, which is where he is now. "
Dr. Faisci commented on a "second wave"
"We continue to talk about the new wave and I continue to tell people that is based on the model of the 1918 pandemic, which had cases in spring 1918 and things have basically gone in the summer," he declared. "And then when autumn came, we had a second wave ... We must get out of the situation we are in now, which means you do not speak of" first wave "second wave. "We look at 40 000 new cases per day. This is unacceptable. And that's what we need to get off before going into the winter more problematic. "
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