With COVID-19 deaths reaching an impressive record yesterday – 4,320 lost souls – it’s time to take protection against the potentially deadly disease, certainly contagious, even more seriously. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s leading infectious disease specialist and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warned that some places are safer than others. Coronavirus “is really leading to a very, very serious number of people who are getting sick and dying from it,” he says. Keep reading to find out where you shouldn’t go anymore – and to ensure your health and the health of others, don’t miss out on these Clear signs that you’ve had the coronavirus.
“Bars are really problematic,” said Fauci Kaiser Health News. “I have to tell you, if you look at some of the outbreaks that we saw, that’s when people go to crowded bars, bars. You know, I used to go to a bar. I liked to sit at a bar and grab a hamburger and a beer. But when you’re at a bar, people are leaning over your shoulders to get a drink, people close to each other. It’s fun because it’s social, but it’s not fun when this virus is in the air. , I think that if there is anything you want to suppress, for now, it’s the bars. “
“If we are in the hot zone the way we are now, where there are so many infections out there, I would feel quite uncomfortable even in a restaurant,” Fauci told Kaiser Health News. “And particularly if it was at full capacity.”
“I mean, again, it depends,” said Fauci when asked if he cuts his hair in a salon. “I used to cut my hair every five weeks. I cut my hair every 12 weeks now – with a mask on me, as well as a mask on the person who is cutting their hair, for sure.”
The CDC has just said that anyone who travels from foreign countries to the United States will be tested. Is the trip safe? “It depends on your individual circumstances,” says Fauci. “If you are someone who is in the highest risk category, in the best possible way, do not travel anywhere. Or if you go somewhere, you have a car, you are in your car alone, not getting on a crowded subway , not getting on a crowded bus or even flying on a plane. “
“The most common way” to obtain COVID-19, says Fauci, is “common household contacts and in crowded environments, especially when it is closed, such as cruise ships, nursing homes and prisons “- and even dinners with family or friends -” factors that can increase the risk of airborne transmission are things we don’t expect, like just singing, talking loudly or breathing heavily. “
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As for you, follow Fauci’s fundamentals and help stop this wave, no matter where you live – use a face mask, social distance, avoid large crowds, do not go home with people you are not sheltering (especially in bars), practice good hand hygiene, be vaccinated when it is available to you and to protect your life and the lives of others, don’t visit any of these 35 places you’re most likely to reach COVID.