But Fauci added, if you are not taking precautions, “You are part of the problem rather than the solution.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, delivered some blunt messages to the public during an online video interview Thursday evening with actor Matthew McConaughey. There are three key reasons why many island nations and Asian countries have managed to control coronavirus better than the U.S., Fauci said.
“ ‘The quicker you pull together and get it down, the quicker you get back to normal. We’re all in this together.’ ” 2. Shut down decisively to stop outbreaks: And asked why so many Asian countries have had relative success in controlling outbreaks of COVID-19, Fauci said, “When they shut down, they shut down like, ‘Bang!’ When we shut down, it was never in the level that the Asian countries did.” Fauci said the stop/start and disparate approaches to shutting down in the U.S. has not worked out as well.
Young people who play or attend sports events are more likely to become “super spreaders” and behave as if they don’t have the virus and be the source of community transmissions, Fauci said. That makes it almost impossible to control an outbreak. “Many of them are going to be young, so they’re not going to get sick. They go out into the community.
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