once upon a time, FauXi told the truth!
then he got orders that the Dems had weaponized covid in order to interfere in the 2020 presidential election:
VIDEO: 2m51s: 15 Feb: Spectrum News: Disease Expert: Flu a Bigger Risk in the US Than Coronavirus
By Taurean Smalland Christie Zizo
“There is no circulating sustained transmission of coronavirus in the United States,” according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a branch of the National Institutes of Health...
“We have 15 cases that have been identified, isolated, and their contacts have been traced,” he said...
Q: Are face masks needed?
A: “Absolutely not.”
NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci says that there is no reason at this point for people in the U.S. to wear surgical masks to protect themselves from #coronavirus. pic.twitter.com/S7gxQsBL6Z
— Spectrum News DC (@SpectrumNewsDC) February 14, 2020...
“The Flu is a Real and Present Issue”
Fauci says something the public should be paying more attention to, however, is the flu.
“The flu is a real and present issue that we are going through right now,” Fauci said. “We’re so used to every year having the seasonal flu that we sort of take it for granted. It’s part of life. And yet each year it kills from [30,000] to 79, 80,000 on our worst year.”
According to the CDC, there have been at 26 million reported flu cases this season, along with 250,000 hospitalizations and 14,000 deaths. Flu activity remains high in most states across the country.
NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci worries that concern around the #coronavirus is causing people to focus less on the seasonal flu outbreak. @CDCgov estimates that influenza has hospitalized between 250k - 440k people in the U.S. so far this season. pic.twitter.com/deuzfW8pNe
— Spectrum News DC (@SpectrumNewsDC) February 14, 2020...
One thing Fauci says will not protect you from getting sick is wearing a face mask.
“I think there’s this misperception that wearing a mask, even if you were in an area where there was transmission, is going to absolutely protect you,” Fauci said. “A mask is more appropriate for someone who is infected to prevent them from infecting someone else.”
Fauci says if you are concerned about getting a respiratory illness, you might want to avoid crowds, but right now that is not necessary in the United States if you are worried about catching COVID-19...
https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2020/02/15/disease-expert—flu-a-bigger-risk-in-the-us-than-coronavirus