NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, about how to implement public health interventions that could turn the tide on the coronavirus pandemic.
So how can public health officials gain the trust of Americans who are skeptical of interventions like masks to fight the coronavirus effectively? Dr. Anthony Fauci is on the line now. He is the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the NIH and a member of President Trump's Coronavirus Task Force. Dr. Fauci, thanks for being on the program again.
MARTIN: You said there needs to be a crystallized, clear, concise message. But, you know, the administration has given mixed messages about masks for many months now. Is it time for a federal mask mandate? FAUCI: Well, I hope so. I mean, certainly, it has the potential to do that. If we do those conferences, come out and have consistent, clear, noncontradictory messages, I believe it would be very helpful in getting people on the track of knowing the direction that we need to go to get this pandemic under control.
MARTIN: I want to ask you about something NPR's reporting - that last week, the White House instructed hospitals to stop reporting data about the coronavirus cases they were seeing into the CDC system that they had been using and to instead send that data directly to the Department of Health and Human Services.
FAUCI: Well, you know, we're having a situation here where we're having, obviously, as you all - we all know from the news, a considerably significant outbreak, particularly in the Southern states. So we have to do a lot of testing. The testing is improving. And we've heard from Brett Giroir, who is referred to as the testing czar, that we have tests going out there. And as the weeks and months go by, we'll have even many more - millions more.
But having said that, we have a very large country, very heterogeneous. And I think in some parts of the country, it'll be very easy to open, where in other parts of the country you may need to do some modifications of scheduling, doing things that are maybe hybrid about in class as well as online. There are a lot of different versions of that. But I don't think I can comment.
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