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Anthony Stephen Fauci is an immunologist who has made substantial contributions to HIV/AIDS research and other immunodeficiencies, both as a scientist and as the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

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Rather than looking at the public health effort versus economic opening as if they were opposing forceswe should use the public health effort as a vehicle and a pathway to get to safe reopening.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on FOX News 7 hours ago Health

So we've got to make sure that we don't create this binary type thing of' it's us against them,' it's not. We're all in it together.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 1 day ago US News

That is being discussed really very actively. We were discussing it actively today in the task force and I can assure you, it's going to be on the agenda tomorrow, given the fact that we know that asymptomatic people are clearly transmitting infection, it just makes commonsense that it's not a bad idea to do that.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 1 day ago Top News

How do David Pugh do contact tracing when someone doesn't have any symptoms ? the standard, classic paradigm of identification, isolation, contact tracing doesn't work no matter how good you are because you don't know who you're tracing.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 2 days ago Top News

The dots are not connected because a lot of it is done by phone, fifty percent of the people because you're coming from an authority, don't even want to talk to you.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 2 days ago Top News

Bars : really not good, really not good, congregation at a bar, inside, is bad news. We really have got to stop that.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 4 days ago Health News

In the United States, even in the most strict lockdowns, only about 50 % of the country locked down -- that allowed for the perpetuation of the outbreak, which we never did get under very good control.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 5 days ago Politics

It does not have to be 100,000 cases a day, i used that number because I wanted to jolt people.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 6 days ago Health News

It really will depend on the dynamics of the outbreak in the particular location where the school is.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 6 days ago Health News

Always make the goal that it is very important to get the children back to school for the unintended negative consequences that occur when we keep them out of school.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 6 days ago Health News

When states start to try and open again they need to follow the guidelines that have been very carefully laid out with regard to check points, what we've seen in several states are different iterations of that. Perhaps maybe in some, going too quickly and skipping over some of the checkpoints.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 6 days ago Politics

> Washington( CNN) Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on Tuesday evening took some direct shots at Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the President's coronavirus task force.Specifically, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick took issue with comments that Anthony Fauci had made earlier in the day during a Senate hearing, when Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick suggested that some states had reopened too fast and skipped some guidelines in the process.Texas was among the first states to begin reopening in early May but Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has recently reversed course after a spike in coronavirus cases.In defending Texas's reopening strategy, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick claimed that.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 6 days ago Politics

It's a violation of the principles of what we're trying to do, and that is the social distancing, the wearing of masks.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 6 days ago Top News

We have to admit it that mixed message in the beginning, even though it was well meant, to allow masks to be available to help workers, that was detrimental in getting the message across right now, no doubt about it.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 6 days ago Top News

We've got to be able to get people to get out and enjoy themselves within the safe guidelines that we have, make public health work for you as opposed to against you.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 7 days ago Health News

Bars : really not good, really not good. Congregation at a bar, inside, is bad news. We really have got to stop that.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 7 days ago Health News

We are now having 40-plus thousand new cases a day. I would not be surprised if we go up to 100,000 a day if this does not turn around and so I am very concerned.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 7 days ago Top News

We're going to continue to be in a lot of trouble, and there's going to be a lot of hurt if that does not stop.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 7 days ago Top News

Its a paradigm shift because were dealing with young people, people who are going to be asymptomatic, and people who are getting infected in a community setting, not an outbreak setting where you know who to identify, isolate and contact trace.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on FOX News 7 days ago U.S.

For goodness sakes : avoid crowds, wear masks. Those are the fundamentals that -- when Peter Hotez look at the television clips, when Peter Hotez see pictures in the newspapers -- people are not doing that. That's a recipe for disaster.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 11 days ago Health News

Something's not working, i mean, you can do all the diagramming you want, but something is not working.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 11 days ago Health News

What you need to do is find the penetration of infected people in your society, and the only way you know that is by casting a broad net.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 11 days ago Health News

We now know the level of virus in an asymptomatic person is about the same as the level of virus in somebody who has symptoms, so it's like, oh my goodness, how do you address that ?

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 11 days ago Health News

For goodness sakes : avoid crowds, wear masks. Those are the fundamentals that -- when you look at the television clips, when you see pictures in the newspapers -- people are not doing that. That's a recipe for disaster.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 11 days ago Top News

Anthony Fauci're essentially chasing after a forest fire.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 13 days ago Health News

I wouldn't necessarily say an absolute shutdown, lockdown, but if someone is going from gateway to phase one to phase two and they get into trouble in phase two, they may need to go back to phase one.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 13 days ago Health News

They've suffered in that their rate of infection is higher because of the nature of the economic status that many of them find themselves in where they're outside working, being unable to physically separate.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 19 days ago Health News

I don't see any option other than to start re-implementing significant levels of social distancing.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 19 days ago Health News

One of the problems we face in United States is that unfortunately, there is a combination of an anti-science bias that people are -- for reasons that sometimes are, you know, inconceivable and not understandable -- they just don't believe science and they don't believe authority, so when they see someone up in the White House, which has an air of authority to White House, who's talking about science, that there are some people who just don't believe that -- and that's unfortunate because, you know, science is truth.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 19 days ago Top News

What happens is that in the standard way of developing a vaccine, you don't jump to invest in the next step until you're pretty sure that the step you're in is working, given the fact that we needed to do this as quickly as possible without sacrificing safety or scientific integrity, the federal government partnered with multiple of these companies and said,' Guess what, we're going to move fast and we're going to assume we're going to be successful. And if we are, we've saved several months. And if we're not, the only thing we've lost is money. But better lose money than lose lives by delaying the vaccine.' So, right now, the initial data from the study showed that. It makes me cautiously optimistic that we can induce a response that would be protective.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 19 days ago Top News

And then when they do get infected, given the social determinants of health which make it for them, have a higher incidence of diseases like hypertension, obesity, diabetes, they are at much greater risk of suffering the deleterious consequences including death.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 19 days ago Top News

But if you look at the data, now that papers have come out literally two days ago, the fact that we shut down when we did and the rest of the world did, has saved hundreds of millions of infections and millions of lives, and yet, there are those who say,' You shut down, you did destructive things by disrupting the economy.' And others say,' Well, if you save so many infections by shutting down, why didn't you shut down two weeks earlier ? You could have saved many more lives.'.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 19 days ago Top News

So when they see someone up in the White House, which has an air of authority to White House, who's talking about science, that there are some people who just don't believe that -- and that's unfortunate because, you know, science is truth.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 19 days ago Top News

Sixty-two days later, we had a product that we put into clinical trial, in a Phase I to see if it's safe and does it induce an immune response. That is overwhelmingly the quickest that has ever been done.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 19 days ago Top News

When you give advice about what should you be doing -- should you be out there, should you be shutting down earlier versus later ? I mean, people get confused. And they say,' Wow, you know, we shut down and we caused a great disruption in society. We caused great economic pain, loss of jobs,'.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 19 days ago Top News

Even in warm weather, like in Arizona and California, we're starting to see resurgences as we open up( after shelter-at-home periods), but I think the chances of there being less of an issue in the end of July and all of August and September are much, much better than if you go into October.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 20 days ago Sports

I have not spoken to Larry Kudlow. I was not one of the people Larry Kudlow spoke to.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 22 days ago Politics

When you're in a large crowd, if you have the congregation of people that are much, much closer to each other, you definitely increase the risk that you will either acquire or spread infections.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 22 days ago Politics

But when you start seeing more hospitalizations, that's a sure fire sign that you're in a situation where you're going in the wrong direction.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 24 days ago Health News

However, when you start to see increases in hospitalization, National Institute of Allergy's National Institute of Allergy that you've got to pay close attention to.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 24 days ago Health News

By the end of the year, we will have a trial that has accrued a large number of people and we hopefully will get an answer, whether it works or not.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 25 days ago Top News

But the preliminary data that we've seen... still indicates to me, a degree that I can have a certain amount of cautious optimism -- namely, it's inducing a response in individuals to a level that would predict that there's a good chance that it might protect.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 25 days ago Top News

When you get congregations like we saw with the demonstrations, that's taking a risk.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 27 days ago Politics

And we know from epidemiological studies they can transmit to someone who is uninfected even when they're without symptoms, so to make a statement to say National Institute of Allergy's National Institute of Allergy was not correct.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 27 days ago Health News

The coronavirus vaccine effort is progressing very well and we expect more than one candidate vaccine to be in advanced clinical testing by early summer, this is good news for the overall coronavirus vaccine effort.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 27 days ago Top News

By the beginning of 2021, we hope to have a couple of hundred million doses.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 29 days ago Health News

We're going to start manufacturing doses of the vaccines way before we even know that the vaccine works.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 29 days ago Health News

I hesitate to make any broad statements about whether it is or is not quote 'safe' for kids to come back to school, when you talk about children going back to school and their safety, it really depends on the level of viral activity and the particular area that you're talking about. What happens all too often -- understandably, but sometimes misleadingly -- is that we talk about the country as a whole in a unidimensional away.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

By the beginning of 2021, we hope to have a couple hundred million doses.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

It may be completely different with this coronavirus, with SARS-CoV-2, it may be that they induce a response thats quite durable.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on FOX News 1 month ago Health

The real business end of this all will be the Phase 3 that starts in the first week of July, hopefully, we want to get as many datapoints as we can.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 1 month ago Health News

Which tells us, that if the body is capable of making an immune response to clear the virus of natural infection, that's a pretty good proof of concept, having said that, there is never a guarantee.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 1 month ago Health News

Then, by the beginning of 2021, we hope to have a couple hundred million doses.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

I'm cautiously optimistic that with the multiple candidates we have with different platforms, that we are going to have a vaccine that will make it deployable.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

I hesitate to make any broad statements about whether it is or is not quote' safe' for kids to come back to school, when you talk about children going back to school and their safety, it really depends on the level of viral activity, and the particular area that you're talking about. What happens all too often, understandably, but sometimes misleadingly, is that we talk about the country as a whole in a unidimensional way.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

Children can get infected, so, yes, so you've got to be careful, you got to be careful for them and you got to be careful that they may not spread it. Now, to make an extrapolation that you shouldn't open schools, I think is a bit of a reach.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

We don't know that for absolutely certain right now.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

There are no well-documented cases of transmission of HIV by exchange of saliva, it is extraordinarily unlikely that a healthy person can be infected by HIV through French kissing.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 1 month ago Politics

I want to protect myself and protect others, and also because I want to make it be a symbol for people to see that that's the kind of thing you should be doing.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Politics

Those are the things that everybody should seriously consider doing.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 1 month ago Health News

If all the cards fall into the right place and all the stars are aligned, you definitely could get a vaccine by December or January.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 1 month ago US News

I think you're going to probably be seeing a little bit more of me and my colleagues, we've been talking with the communications people, and they realize we need to get some of this information out, particularly some of the scientific issues for which I'm predominantly responsible for, so hopefully we'll be seeing more of us, will get the opportunity to talk to you.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 1 month ago Politics

There's no way I'm going to get a haircut.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 1 month ago Politics

Right now, if you take southern Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, parts of Asia, South America and even parts of the Caribbean as areas that don't have the healthcare system to be able to respond the way one can respond in New York or L.A. or New Orleans or Chicago, we have really a moral responsibility for people throughout the world.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Entertainment

The idea of having treatments available or a vaccine to facilitate the re-entry of students into the fall term would be something that would be a bridge too far, even at the top speed we're going, we don't see a vaccine playing in the ability of individuals to get to school this term.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 1 month ago Health News

There's no guarantee that the vaccine is actually going to be effective.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 1 month ago Health News

What I've expressed, then and again, just my concern that if some areas, cities, states or what have you, jump over those various checkpoints and prematurely open up without having the capability of being able to respond effectively and efficiently - my concern is that we will start to see little spikes that might turn into outbreaks.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 1 month ago Politics

I think you are correct that the number is likely higher, i don't know exactly where it sits higher, but almost certainly is higher.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 1 month ago Politics

There is a real risk that you will trigger an outbreak that you may not be able to control and, in fact, paradoxically, will set you back, not only leading to some suffering and death that could be avoided, but could even set you back on the road to try to get economic recovery.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Health News

I'm Anthony Fauci, a physician and a public health official. I give advice, according to the best scientific evidence, i don't give advice about economic things.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 1 month ago Politics

Even at the top speed we're going, we don't see a vaccine playing in the ability of individuals getting back to school this term, what they really want is to know if they are safe.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 1 month ago Politics

There is certainly not a confrontational relationship between me and the President, as I've mentioned many times, I give advice and opinion based (on) evidence-based scientific information. He hears that. He respects it. He gets opinions from a variety of other people. But in no way, in my experience over the last several months, has there been any confrontational relationship between us.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 1 month ago Politics

This is, this is such an important problem, it transcends all of us individually, and we have to be working as a team. And I enjoy very much working with your senators and the governors, because it's at the local level that we're going to make it work. So I am fine. I appreciate your concern.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 1 month ago Politics

But you ignored the fact that they accomplished theirs at the beginning of the outbreak, while we treaded water during February and March.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 1 month ago Politics

I am very careful, and hopefully humble, in knowing that I don't know everything about this disease, and that's why I am very careful in making broad predictions.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

There is a real risk that you will trigger an outbreak that you may not be able to control and ... could even set you back on the road to try to get economic recovery.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Top News

If we skip over the checkpoints in the guidelines to :' Open America Again,' then we risk the danger of multiple outbreaks throughout the country, this will not only result in needless suffering and death, but would actually set us back on our quest to return to normal.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 1 month ago Politics

You got a problem there, you know why ? Because it is likely that if four of them are positive and they've been hanging around together, that the other ones that are negative are really positive. So, I mean, if you have one outlier( only one player testing positive), I think you might get away. But once you wind up having a situation where it looks like it's spread within a team, you got a real problem. You got ta shut it down.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

You cant just leap over things and get into a situation where youre really tempting a rebound.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on FOX News 2 months ago U.S.

If you look at the evolution of the virus in bats and what's out there now,( the scientific evidence) is very, very strongly leaning toward this could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

It may all of a sudden have a safety signal, if it doesn't work, it doesn't protect people. I've been involved in vaccine work for decades. Not every vaccine we went after worked.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 2 months ago US News

It's the balance of something that's a very difficult choice.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

One interesting feature of this novel coronavirus pandemic is that very few children have become sick with COVID-19 compared to adults.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 2 months ago US News

If by that time we have put into place all of the countermeasures that you need to address this, we should do reasonably well, if we don't do that successfully, we could be in for a bad fall and a bad winter.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 2 months ago Health News

When it does, how we handle it, will determine our fate.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 2 months ago World

There are some states, some cities... kind of leapfrogging over the first checkpoint. And, I mean, obviously you could get away with that, but you are making a really significant risk, i hope they can actually handle any rebound that they see.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 2 months ago Health News

You don't have to wait five or six months to scale up to get enough doses, to give to a meaningful number of people, that's a risky financial circumstance, but it certainly, certainly is worth the risk given what's at stake.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 2 months ago Health News

If we get in there and there are a number of infections, you can get an efficacy signal right away, which means you may know right ahead of time whether or not you have something that works.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 2 months ago Health News

The data shows that remdesivir has a clear-cut, significant, positive effect in diminishing the time to recovery.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 2 months ago Health News

The discretion is given to the governors. They know their states, the mayors know their cities, so you want to give them a little wiggle room. But my recommendation is, you know, don't wiggle too much. Try as best as you can to abide by the guidelines that were very well thought out, and very well delineated, some of them are doing that, but others are taking a bit of a chance.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

We can't just leave them on their own, on the one hand, and the federal government can't do it by itself, on the other hand.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

This could be a major outbreak. I hope not. Or it could be something that's reasonably well controlled, at the end of the day, this will ultimately go down. Hopefully we could protect the American public from any serious degree of morbidity or mortality. That's the reason why we've got to do the things that we have in our plan.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

At this moment, there's no need to change anything that you're doing on a day by day basis. Right now, the risk is still low.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

If by that time we have put into place all of the countermeasures that President Donald Trump need to address this, we should do reasonably well. If we don't do that successfully, we could be in for a bad fall and a bad winter.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

We probably should get up to twice that as we get into the next several weeks, and I think we will.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

You would include the FDA when you want to expedite drugs or devices.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 2 months ago Health News

Because there is a danger of a rebound. And I know there is a desire to move ahead quickly. That's a natural human nature desire. But going ahead and leapfrogging into phases where you should not be, I would advise him as a health official and as a physician not to do that.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

What it will mean, it would protect those who have been exposed, but at the community level there would not have been enough infections to really have enough umbrella of herd immunity.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 2 months ago Health News

I would advise him not to just turn the switch on and go, because there is a danger of a rebound.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on FOX News 2 months ago U.S.

I would advise Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp not to just turn the switch on and go, because there is a danger of a rebound.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on FOX News 2 months ago Politics

We have to figure out how do we close that gap.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 2 months ago Health News

People say,' Well, you know, you can't play without spectators,' well, I think you probably get enough buy-in from people who are dying to see a baseball game – particularly me.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 2 months ago Sports

I think they'd feel better about it if it's private.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 2 months ago Politics

I mean, obviously, you could logically say that if you had a process that was ongoing and you started mitigation earlier, you could have saved lives, obviously, no one is going to deny that. But what goes into those decisions is complicated.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

The antibody test says you were infected and if you're feeling well, you've very likely recovered, as we look forward, as we get to the point of at least considering opening up the country as it were, it's very important to appreciate and to understand how much that virus has penetrated society.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

We are hoping that by the end of the month we can look around and say, OK, is there any element here that we can safely and cautiously start pulling back on ? If so, do it. If not, then just continue to hunker down.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

The Federal Government's going to be depending where you are in the country, the nature of the outbreak that you have already experienced, and the threat of an outbreak that you may not have experienced, the Federal Government is not going to be a light switch that we say, OK, it is now June, July or whatever, click, the light switch goes back on.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

The Federal Government is not going to be a light switch that we say, OK, it is now June, July or whatever, click, the light switch goes back on.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

Now is no time to back off, the virus will decide.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 2 months ago Top News

We've got to continue in many respects to redouble our efforts at the mitigation of physical separation in order to keep those numbers down and hopefully even get those lower.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

It is very likely that we will progress towards the steps towards normalization as we get to the end of this thirty days, and I think that's going to be a good time how quickly can we make that, hopefully by the time we get to the summer, we will have taken many steps toward that direction.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

I don't understand why that's not happening.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

We've got to continue in many respects to redouble our efforts at the mitigation of physical separation in order to keep those numbers down.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

The vaccine as Ive been saying over the past several weeks, we got into a clinician trial faster than ever, its going to take about a year to a year and a half.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on FOX News 2 months ago Science

So I believe we're going to see a downturn in that, and it looks more like the 60,000 than the 100,000-200,000.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 2 months ago Top News

You don't want to let up at a time that's premature, but right now we are clearly looking at if we, in fact, are as successful as we hope to be over the extended 30 day period that the President announced several days ago -- namely extending the period of restrictions and guidelines to the end of April -- that if, in fact, we are successful, it makes sense to at least plan what a reentry into normality would look like, that doesn't mean we're going to do it right now.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

My optimistic side tells me that we'll be able to renew to a certain extent, but it's going to be different, remember now, because this( disease) is not going to disappear.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 3 months ago Health News

I don't think anyone has ever mitigated the way I've seen people mitigate right now. It's never happened in this country before. I am optimistic. Always cautiously optimistic.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 3 months ago Health News

What you're hearing about potential light at the end of the tunnel doesn't take away from the fact that tomorrow, the next day, are going to look really bad.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 3 months ago Top News

Viruses transmit from people to people. When people are separated from each other the virus does not transmit -- it doesn't go anywhere and that's the reason why something as simple as the physical separation... that's our most important tool, but this is what we have to do. As sobering and as difficult as this is, what we are doing is making a difference so we really need to continue to do that.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 3 months ago Top News

I don't understand why that's not happening, if you look at what's going on in this country, I just don't understand why we're not doing that... We really should be.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 3 months ago Health News

All of a sudden, now I'm in a situation where I spend like more than an hour every day with him, i mean, we go there, we brief him, we have a press conference, we debrief after the press conference.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 3 months ago Top News

We argued strongly with the President that he not withdraw those guidelines after 15 days but that he extend them, and he did listen, dr. Debbie Birx and I went into together in the Oval Office and leaned over the desk and said, here are the data, take a look. He looked at them, he understood them, and he just shook his head and said, 'I guess we've got to do it.'.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 3 months ago Top News

Particularly now that we're getting some inklings that there's transmission of infection from an asymptomatic person who is not coughing, who is not sneezing, who just appears well. Well, then how do you think that's happening ? it very well could be aerosol. Maybe not aerosol, you know, that goes on for hours. But even the slight aerosol in which you're talking to somebody. If that's the case, we should at least look at the data and try to make a decision about that.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

Something doesn't have to be 100 % effective to be beneficial.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

Anything that has to do with security detail I would have to have you( ask your question) to the inspector general of HHS.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 3 months ago Top News

We're doing everything we can.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 3 months ago Health News

We're not there yet, but I think we're close to coming to some determination.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 3 months ago Health News

I don't want to be negative, this is easy to be negative about but I want to give people hope too. You know, I'm a cheerleader for the country.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 3 months ago Top News

Whenever you're having an effect, it's not time to take your foot off the accelerator, and that's what I hope. And I know that we can that do over the next 30 days.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 3 months ago Top News

In fact, I would anticipate that that would actually happen.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 3 months ago Health News

Things are going to be very, very different.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 3 months ago Health News

We felt that if we prematurely pulled back, we would only form an acceleration or a rebound of something which would have put you behind where you were before, and that's the reason why we argued strongly with the President, that Anthony Fauci not withdraw those guidelines after 15 days, but that he extend them. And he did listen.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

The idea that we may have these many cases played a role in our decision in trying to make sure that we don't do something prematurely and pull back when we should be pushing.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

Anthony Fauci looked at them, Anthony Fauci understood them and Anthony Fauci just shook Anthony Fauci head and said,' I guess Doctors Birx and Fauci got to do it,'.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

But I don't want to be held to that.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 3 months ago Top News

After discussions with the president, we made it clear, and he agreed, that it would be much better to do what's called a strong advisory.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 3 months ago US News

Dr. Debbie Birx and I went in together in the Oval Office and leaned over the desk and said, 'Here are the data. Take a look,' he looked at them and he just shook his head and said, 'I guess we got to do it.'.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 3 months ago US News

From a public health standpoint, we felt strongly that it would have been the wrong decision to pull back.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 3 months ago US News

We feel the mitigation we are doing right now is having an effect, the decision to extend this mitigation process until the end of April is a wise and prudent decision.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 3 months ago Top News

I'm not against releasing the restrictions -- I'm actually for it in an appropriate place, but I don't recommend it unless we have the tools in place, in real time.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

A model is as good as the assumptions you put into the model, and very often, many of these assumptionsare based on a complexity of issues that arent necessarily the same... from one country to another.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on FOX News 3 months ago Politics

Vice President Mike Pence's listening to us when we say we really got to reevaluate it, in real time, and any decision we make has to be based on the data.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

Donald Trump's listening to us when we say we really got to reevaluate it, in real time, and any decision we make has to be based on the data.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 3 months ago Top News

What we are starting to see is that there are some people who are younger, people your age - young, healthy, vigorous - who don't have any underlying conditions who are getting seriously ill, it's still a very, very small minority, but it doesn't mean that young people like yourself should say, 'I'm completely exempt from any risk of getting seriously ill,'.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 3 months ago Sports

You need to protect yourself because you are not completely exempt from serious illness, and you can become the vector, or the carrier of infection, where you get infected, you feel well and then you inadvertently and innocently pass it on to your grandfather, your grandmother or an uncle who is on chemotherapy for cancer.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 3 months ago Sports

It's still a very, very small minority, but it doesn't mean that young people like yourself should say, 'I'm completely exempt from any risk of getting seriously ill,'.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 3 months ago Sports

We hope we get a respite as we get into April, May and June.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 3 months ago Top News

You may see in a relatively shorter period of Prime Time, when you're seeing the inkling of the flattening and coming down, but you know, you can't make an arbitrary decision until you see what you're dealing with. You need the data.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 3 months ago Top News

You've got to be realistic.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 3 months ago Top News

Obviously, no one is going to want to tone down things when you see things going on like in New York City.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 3 months ago Top News

No one is going to want to tone down things when you see what's going on in a place like New York City.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 3 months ago Health News

I don't consider the balancing act, i just give public health advice, completely clean unconnected with everything else.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

I would wish that would stop because we have a much bigger problem here than trying to point out differences, theyrereally fundamentally at the core when you look at things, they are not differences.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on FOX News 3 months ago Politics

The president was trying to bring hope to the people. I think theres this issue of [ the media ] trying to separate the two of us. There isnt fundamentally a difference there.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on FOX News 3 months ago Politics

I keep saying, 'Is there any way we can get a virtual press conference?' thus far, no. But when you're dealing with the White House, sometimes you have to say things one, two, three, four times, and then it happens. So, I'm going to keep pushing.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 3 months ago Politics

I'm sort of exhausted, but other than that, I'm good. I mean, I'm not, to my knowledge, coronavirus infected. To my knowledge, I haven't been fired.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 3 months ago Top News

OK, he said it. Let's try and get it corrected for the next time.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 3 months ago Top News

I don't think with any moral conscience you could say,' Why don't we just let it rip and happen and let X percent of the people die,'.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 3 months ago Top News

The way it happened is that after [President Trump] made that statement [suggesting China could have revealed the discovery of a new coronavirus threeto fourmonths earlier], I told the appropriate people, it doesnt comport, because twoor threemonths earlier would have been September, the next time they sit down with him and talk about what hes going to say, they will say, By the way, Mr. President, be careful about this and dont say that. But I cant jump in front of the microphone and push him down. OK, he said it. Lets try and get it corrected for the next time.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on FOX News 3 months ago Science

I, on the other side, have said I'm not disagreeing with the fact anecdotally they might work, but my job is to prove definitively from a scientific standpoint that they do work, so I was taking a purely medical, scientific standpoint and The President was trying to bring hope to the people.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 3 months ago Top News

Yes, it is possible. Our job, our challenge is to try and make that not happen. But to think, if we go about our daily lives and not worry about everything, that it's not going to happen -- it could happen. And it could be worse.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

It is correct that the infections are going to go up. Our job is to make sure it doesn't do the maximum peak and actually blunts. Within that blunt there will be many new infections. We want to make sure we don't get to that really bad peak.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

Younger people should be concerned for two reasons. You are not immune or safe from getting seriously ill. Even though when you look at the total numbers, it's overwhelmingly weighted towards the elderly and those with underlying conditions. But the virus isn't a mathematical formula. There are going to be people who are young who are going to wind up getting seriously ill. So protect yourself.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

I think Americans should be prepared that they are going to have to hunker down significantly more than we as a country are doing.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on FOX News 3 months ago Health

The idea of anybody getting it( a test) easily, the way people in other countries are doing it, we're not set up for that, do I think we should be ? Yes, but we're not.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 3 months ago Top News

This is 10 times more lethal than the seasonal flu.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 3 months ago Top News

That is a failing. Let's admit it, the idea of anybody getting it easily the way people in other countries are doing it, we're not set up for that.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 3 months ago US News

We would like the country to realize that as a nation, we cant be doing the kinds of things we were doing a few months ago.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on FOX News 3 months ago Health

It really depends. Vice President Biden are having, as Vice President Biden've all said, this is something in motion. This is an evolving thing.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

I would encourage any individual who is elderly or is medically fragile to think long and hard about going to any large gathering that would involve close quarters and potential spread. And if they do go, to take appropriate personal hygiene protections.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

We would like the country to realize that as a nation, we can't be doing the kinds of things we were doing a few months ago. It doesn't matter if you're in a state that has no cases or one case.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

If and when the infections will come -- and they will come, sorry to say, sad to say -- when you're dealing with an infectious disease... we want to be where the infection is going to be, as well as where it is.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

I don't imagine that the degree of the draconian nature of what the Chinese did would ever be either feasible, applicable, doable or whatever you want to call it in the United States.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 4 months ago Top News

If you're a person with an underlying condition and you are particularly an elderly person with an underlying condition, you need to think twice about getting on a plane, on a long trip, and not only think twice, just don't get on a cruise ship.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 4 months ago Top News

It's possible, you know, you don't want to alarm people, but given the spread we see, you know, anything is possible. And that's the reason why we've got to be prepared to take whatever action is appropriate to contain and mitigate the outbreak.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 4 months ago Top News

Unfortunately, that better sense is not encouraging because we're seeing community spread, and whenever you see community spread, you can do contact tracing, but as more community spread it becomes logistically more difficult.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 4 months ago Top News

In the next couple of weeks we should be ratcheted up to get many more out.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 4 months ago Top News

Michael Phillips could have missed one or two cases, but not entire cohorts.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 4 months ago Health News

If we have a pandemic, then almost certainly we are going to get impacted.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 4 months ago Top News

When that happens, then you have the makings of a pandemic, what Nancy Messonnier was saying was that being the case, if United States have a pandemic, almost certainly United States are going to get impacted.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 4 months ago Politics

Things are stable here, but we need to be ready.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 4 months ago Politics

The earliest you could even know if it's going to work is a year.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 5 months ago Business

My bottom line is the way this is continuing to evolve every day, it looks like it's heading towards what we would call a pandemic.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 5 months ago Health News

There's still much we don't know about this virus.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 5 months ago Health News

To my knowledge, we have not seen the precise minute, granular data and how they collected it, we need to get to the real bottom line of how they collected their data and see if it's valid.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 5 months ago Health News

The CDC report's already been The CDC report.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 5 months ago Top News

We are the problem. We have seen the enemy, and it is us.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 7 months ago Health News

It means we do have now what looks like treatments for a disease which, not too long ago, we really had no therapeutic approach at all.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 10 months ago Top News

What this means is that we do now have what look like (two) treatments for a disease for which not long ago we really had no approach at all.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 11 months ago Company News

If you miss a dose or two it is unlikely that there is going to be a gap in protection.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 11 months ago Health News

I consider it an irony that you have one of the most contagious viruses known to man juxtaposed against one of the most effective vaccines they have, yet we don't do and have not done what could be done - namely eliminate eradicate the virus.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health News

I'd rather be on the single pill a day with very little toxicities than risk something as draconian as a transplant.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Health News

The security issue is really having a major negative impact on the ability to respond in an appropriate way, in the classic way that you respond to an Ebola outbreak, to be able to essentially get to the point where you diminish it, diminish it, diminish it, and then it's gone.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health News

The problem is that more than half of the new infections that are coming into the Ebola treatment units are individuals who have no connection to any contact. So we don't know where or how they got infected.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health News

So the good news is that we have a tool we didn't have in the West African outbreak. The sobering news is that we're not able to implement it as extensively as we want to because we don't have access to all the contacts of the contacts of the contacts, because new cases are coming in that we can't trace to any known case.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health News

We'll know probably by the end of 2020, the beginning of 2021, whether or not we do have a successful universal flu vaccine.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health News

One of the most important things about flu that we all have learned through experience is that it is generally unpredictable, that's the nature of flu.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Influenza is really a unique virus, so different from diseases like measles and polio that stay essentially stable, and you just got to vaccinate once or get infected, and essentially, you're good for life. That's not the case with flu. It's very complicated with flu.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Even though flu seasons are unpredictable, not always but often, we can get a hint of what we're going to face from what people in Australia and the southern hemispheres have faced in their winter, which is essentially our summer.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

We're watching very closely to see if there's any suggestion of any increasing trend in pertussis.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health News

We haven't even done the phase 1 yet.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 2 years ago Health News

It has the effect of a vaccine.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 2 years ago Health News

Someone who is probably a rural worker in the woods, in the forest, in the jungle gets bit by a mosquito who is infected with yellow fever but likely got it from a monkey, so it goes from animal to human, but it doesn't get into the population of Aedes aegypti, which are very frequent in the big cities like Rio de Janeiro.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

He will probably do it on a prorated basis across the Institutes.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Politics

We still need about $196 million more.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Politics

The regular appropriations process takes too long, i don’t want to wait to have to develop a vaccine.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

I disagree with that.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

It would not be surprising at all - if not likely - that we're going to see a bit of that, we're talking about scores of cases, dozens of cases, at most.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Health News

There are only individual case reports of significant neurological damage to people not just the fetuses but an adult that would get infected. Things that they call meningoencephalitis, which is an inflammation of the brain and the covering around the brain, spinal cord damage due to what we call myelitis, so far they look unusual, but at least we've seen them and that's concerning.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Health News

It is likely we will have what is called a local outbreak.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Health News

Right now in the United States they should not be that concerned. We do not have local outbreaks.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Health News

I don't have what I need right now.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Healthcare

There was one very discreet stretch of the protein on the envelope that is really different than the other flaviviruses, that is like a big red flag.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Health News

They haven't proven it yet, but it is a very important first clue.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Health News

That is really unfortunate, because that’s the vulnerable group that can benefit most from PrEP.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Health News

The absolute definitive proof will come from case-controlled studies, and those usually take months.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Health News

These are all things that need to be carefully examined in natural history and case-control studies.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Healthcare

We can predict that we would likely be in Phase One trial just to determine if it's safe and if it induces a good response probably by the end of the summer, if it looks like it's safe, we'll go to the next stage.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 4 years ago Health News

What we're all trying to do is in one test is determine is it Zika, and is it Zika alone, we don't have those tests yet, but we're trying to develop them.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 4 years ago World

When there are many unknowns, there is a lot of fear and concern in the community, that's exactly what we are seeing now with Zika.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 4 years ago World

In the very beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 4 years ago World

While in development, it's important to understand we won't have a vaccine this year or even in the next few years, although we may be able to have a clinical trial start this calendar year.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 4 years ago World

We're already talking to a few companies who are able to partner with us in advanced development.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Health News

We will see little mini-outbreaks like in Florida or in Texas that can be well-controlled with mosquito vector control. Hopefully, we will not see anything worse than that.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Most Read Articles

Don't forget that we have an advantage in that most parts of our country go through significant winter, that kills the mosquitos right off. And we handle local outbreaks in warm places like Florida with quick containment and eradication.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

And it's determined by officials in Brazil that peak mosquito transmitting time is in April, so we haven't begun to see the full impact of this outbreak.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

There have been a small number of cases of microcephaly connected to a previous outbreak of Zika in the Polynesian Islands.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

People should not be concerned about this.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Health News

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