Dr. Anthony Fauci, the president’s chief medical advisor and the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, spoke with Margaret Brennan about Face the Nation for tell the Americans something on Sunday morning: hold tight. The light is at the end of the tunnel, but the boxes are still high. Now is not the time to relax public health safety and mitigation measures. Read Dr. Fauci’s full warning and see how you can stay safe – and to ensure your health and the health of others, don’t miss out on these Clear signs that you have had the coronavirus.
The concern, says Fauci, “is based on the fact that, although the cases are going very well, you have a very sharp decrease in the last week and a half. We saw that this decline essentially did this by starting to stagnate. And, historically, if you look at the different outbreaks we had when they fell and then started to stabilize at a very high level, the plateau at a level of 60 to 70,000 new cases per day is not an acceptable level. This is really high. And if you look at what happened in Europe a few weeks ago, they are usually a few weeks ahead of us in those patterns. They were reaching stabilization levels and, in the last week or so, had an increase of about 9% in cases. So, the message we are saying is that we want to go back carefully and slowly about the withdrawal of mitigation methods, but don’t turn it on and off because it would be really risky to have another outbreak again, which we don’t want to happen because we are stagnating at a fairly high level high, 60 to 70,000 new infections a day is very difficult. “
Regarding a new, more communicable variant of the New York COVID-19, Dr. Fauci says “it is not yet widespread, but it seems to be spreading quite efficiently across the New York metropolitan area. And besides one of the things that you should be careful about is that when you get a variant that has the ability to be quite vigorous in its ability to spread and in fact, it is alluded to a little bit, not as much as the South African isolated, but loses some of the protection from monoclonal antibodies, as well as the vaccine. The only thing you want to do is make sure you don’t allow this to continue to spread two ways to do this. Get people vaccinated as quickly and quickly as possible and maintain the public health measures we talked about. Often, masking, physical distance and avoiding crowded environments, especially indoors. This is what you can do to prevent the spread of a worrying variant. “
“One of the things I think we should point out with each passing day is that we keep control over the things that are going to get better and better,” says Fauci, “because we are now putting at least 2 million vaccines in the arms of individuals each day. And with the passing of days and weeks, you have more and more protection, not only from individuals, but from the community. So we are going in the right direction. We just need to take it a little longer. “
“We will be removing these mitigation methods,” says Fauci. “This is not going to be like this indefinitely, for sure. We want to get these very, very low virus debt levels. And then we will have much, much easier to have time to safely retreat and recover the economy and all the other things that we want to be normal. “
Will COVID’s situation improve as it gets warmer? “I don’t think so, because we’ve been through this movie before when we felt that we would have some relief in the summer,” said Dr. Fauci. “And if you go back and look at the patterns that we had peaks in the middle of the dome, respiratory viruses generally do better in the sense of better for the community in the summer, but we can’t trust that. Now, when we need to count on vaccinating people and continuing public health measures with a gradual setback, we want to make sure that people understand that this will not be indefinite. We need to step back gradually as we vaccinate more people. And this is happening every day, more and more people. And particularly as we receive more doses, which will be drastically increased as we enter April and May. And, as the president said, at the end of May we will have enough vaccines to vaccinate everyone—[everyone] you’ll have to put a big push to put it in people’s arms, but at that point we’re going to be doing much, much better. We will have community centers for vaccines, vaccines and pharmacies ”.
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So, follow Fauci’s fundamentals and help end this pandemic, no matter where you live – use a face mask that adapts perfectly and has two layers, do not travel, get away socially, avoid large crowds, do not enter home with people you are not sheltering (especially in bars), practice good hand hygiene, be vaccinated when available for you, and to protect your life and the lives of others, do not visit any of these 35 places you’re most likely to reach COVID.