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there is worse stuff in the endless NYT piece. notice he suggests President Trump is impulsive.

note he is talking about “months”...and vaccine, of course.
best of all: “you don’t want the economy to completely crumble”.

fire Fauci.

28 Apr: NYT: Some Sports May Have to Skip This Year, Fauci Says
By James Wagner and Ken Belson
Q: How many tests do we need to be doing every day, week or month before the country can reopen? And how soon will we get there?
FAUCI: I don’t think you should put a number on it. I think it depends on the level of outbreak and how many people you’re going to have to contact trace. Then when you have things under control, then you can start doing surveillance studies and getting out there looking for antibodies.

Q: Is it even fair to think about sports leagues and teams getting broad access to testing if the general public or other industries aren’t getting the same?
FAUCI: I hope when we get to that point, when we’re going to try and get the sports figures tested, then we will have enough tests so that anybody who needs a test can get a test.

Q: How far away are we to that?
FAUCI: I can’t give you a date, but I know that tests are rapidly scaling up in numbers over the next several weeks and MONTHS.

Q: How much have you talked to sports leagues about their ideas for resuming play?
FAUCI: I have spoken to the sports world through interviews with people like yourselves, if they can read what I say. But I’m always open to try and help in any way I can with Major League Baseball, the N.F.L. I’ve spoken to some sports executives, but I don’t want to say who they are.

Q: Have you given your blessing to any of their proposals?
FAUCI: I don’t think it’s appropriate for me to do. That would have to be their decision...

Q: Some people are clamoring for sports to resume, including Mr. Trump. Do you think that is the correct impulse?
FAUCI: There’s a difference between an impulse and what you’re going to do. You don’t have to act on every impulse. I would love to be able to have all sports back. But as a health official and a physician and a scientist, I have to say, right now, when you look at the country, we’re not ready for that yet. We might be ready, depending upon what the sport is. But right now, we’re not.

Q: Cleaning companies have said they will not only have to keep stadiums clean, but also give fans confidence that they are clean. In other words, there’s reality and there’s fear.
FAUCI: Unless we completely knock this out with a vaccine — which I hope we will, but that’s not going to be for a while — I think you’re going to see some form of a tension to the possibility of transmissibility of a respiratory agent. People are not going to readily be shaking hands or hugging. I think people will continue to wear masks no matter what you say, because they’re afraid. I think people still will do physical distancing. People are going to act on their own until they feel perfectly comfortable that we are really back to normal...

Q: Sports, in the end, are entertainment. How far down the line should they be in the country’s reopening? Do more essential businesses need to come first?
FAUCI: I don’t think it’s either or. I think, clearly, essentially services are a high priority. No doubt about it. You don’t want the economy to completely crumble...
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/28/sports/fauci-sports-reopening-pandemic.html