Posted on 04/05/2020 5:23:38 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warned that if the coronavirus outbreak does not get “globally under control,” it is likely to become a recurring problem.
Fauci echoed officials who warned that the coming week will be a bad one with the number of deaths expected to increase to a “shocking” degree, but said that social distancing practices will help flatten the curve of cases.
“Unless we get this globally under control there’s a very good chance that it will assume a seasonal nature,” Fauci told CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday.
Fauci said that people must be prepared for a resurgence next year, which is why officials fighting the pandemic are pushing for a vaccine and clinical trials for therapeutic interventions so “we will have interventions that we did not have” when this started.
Surgeon General Jerome Adams warned on “Fox News Sunday” that the outbreak’s projection for this week shows that the death toll could be of historic proportions. Fauci shared this attitude, but noted that things may improve soon after.
“Well, this is going to be a bad week,” Fauci said, but added that “we should hope that within a week, maybe a little bit more, we should see a flattening out of the curve and coming down.”
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Yes, it will be a seasonal virus. But we will all have been exposed to it, and it will be like the flu. Some unlucky souls will die from it each year. Like the flu. It’s only now that it’s a pandemic because it’s our first exposure.
You mean like the flu?
No. We will just become immune to it like every other illness we humans deal with. It is not the plague.
“Country opens up. Wuflu case in Kali-fornia. Country shuts down?”
If a large percentage have no symptoms, it probably will become seasonal.
LOL - Whether “controlled” or not, it will likely be seasonal. And seasonal with decreasing levels of seriousness.
If it saves one life...
“Fauci said that people must be prepared for a resurgence next year,...”,
Duh. We are refusing to gain mass immunity so we will keep at it slowly until we do. He may be educated but he lacks any skill in fundamental logic.
after exhorting us to “flatten the curve” he now announces that this will continue into next year unless we contain it this year?
Wha an idiot we are slowing the spread, that’s his policy too, NOT stopping the spread.
I doubt we will have a vaccine... How the heck do they control if it becomes seasonal or not? This lockdown thing is insane.
He was asked a question and he is right.
In other news, the USA corona death toll has now passed 10% of what died in the 2017-2018 flu season
Shut down the economy virus? This isn’t the freaking pale horse of the tribulation
Natural selection will make the virus less deadly over time. Dr. Fauci knows this. He is being disingenuous.
So we shut ourselves down for a seasonal virus?
We spend ourselves further into debt, lose jobs, closes businesses, etc. This causes more harm than the virus.
Crazy.
That one picture with the Joker comes to mind. The flu kills hundreds of thousands every year and nobody bats an eyelash. Coronavirus will 40 and everybody loses their mind.
The best proholatyic will be to drop the big one on Wuhan.
In another job, he would be head of the global initiative on global warming.........I don't trust this guy
I agree with you.
Suicides rise during unemployment. What about those “lives,” Fauci?
Start the exposure now rather than hiding from it. The mandatory vaccine (say no to the vaccine and you will lose your drivers license, your ability to attend public schools, your ability to vote and God forbid your library card) will do the same thing.
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