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Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top disease expert in the U.S., drew ire on social media Wednesday when critics said he seemed to write off vaccine hesitancy as a purely political statement. Fauci gave an interview to MSNBC and talked about how important it is for Americans to get vaccinated. He said vaccines help protect the person receiving the jab, as well as family members and the community. He expressed frustration with those who continue to refuse the shots that he called highly effective and safe. "You’ve gotta ask: What is the problem?" he said. "Get over it. Get over this...

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Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious diseases expert, is advising Americans to not wait for certain COVID-19 vaccines to become available before getting inoculated. “When a vaccine becomes available, take it,” Fauci told Savannah Guthrie during an interview on the "Today" show Thursday. “This is a race, Savannah, between the virus and getting vaccines into people. The longer one waits on getting vaccinated, the better chance the virus has to get a variant or a mutation,” Fauci said. “So, the sooner we get vaccine into the arms of individuals, whatever that vaccine is ... once it gets by the FDA...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s top infectious disease expert doesn’t want the Super Bowl to turn into a super spreader. Dr. Anthony Fauci, says when it comes to Super Bowl parties during the pandemic, people should “just lay low and cool it.” He said during TV interviews Wednesday that now isn’t the time to invite people over for watch parties because of the possibility that they’re infected with the coronavirus and could sicken others.

Infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci highlighted the need to address racial disparities in the COVID-19 vaccination process, per an interview with The New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday.What he’s saying: "I think that's the one thing we really got to be careful of. We don't want in the beginning ... most of the people who are getting it are otherwise, well, middle-class white people.""You really want to get it to the people who are really the most vulnerable ... you don't want to have a situation where people who really are in need of it, because of where they...

The number of coronavirus cases in the United States surpassed 8 million on Friday as health officials from coast to coast scramble to contain the rising rate of infections. The case numbers are steadily increasing daily, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The country has averaged more than 53,000 new daily cases for the past week -- an increase of more than 55% in just over a month -- and Friday's caseload was not the exception, according to Johns Hopkins data. Unlike previous rises, this time it appears that no region is safe. The Northeast, which has remained relatively...

Health officials have struggled to convey the seriousness of Covid-19 to many Americans. President Trump’s rapid recovery from the disease, while welcome by all, makes the challenge even more difficult, Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases acknowledged. Trump’s quick bounce-back from his infection will likely underscore the mistaken belief some people have that the disease does not present significant health risks, Fauci said in an interview with STAT. “We’re all glad that the president of the United States did not suffer any significant consequences of it,” Fauci said. “But … because he is such...

You may not have heard, but on August 23, a guy named Harvey Risch made some shocking accusations against Anthony Fauci. Of course, that by itself doesn’t say much since a lot of people have accused Anthony Fauci of a lot of things since he stepped into the spotlight as the de facto leader of America’s response to COVID-19. But Harvey Risch isn’t just anybody. Risch is a professor of epidemiology at Yale University. He has an M.D. from UC San Diego, a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and he’s published over 300 papers in a career that spans...

The nation’s top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci demanded that the Trump campaign refrain from using him in future campaign ads, saying Monday that it would be “outrageous” and “terrible” if he was featured in another commercial and it could “come back to backfire” on Team Trump. Asked by The Daily Beast if his comments were a thinly-veiled thread to leave his post if he ended up in a new campaign spot, Fauci: “Not a chance.” "Not in my wildest freakin dreams,” he said, “did I ever think about quitting." From there, Fauci went on to explain what he...

With COVID-related deaths topping 215,000 in America, the risk-reward calculus must be made before you go anywhere: Is it worth it, if you might catch coronavirus? Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, says not all places are equal and some have way more risk. Read on, and to ensure your health and the health of others 1 Indoors at Restaurants 2 Indoors at Bars 3 Indoors at Gyms 4 Indoors Anywhere Where People Congregate (Churches) "If you look at the super spreader events that have occurred, I think it's incorrect to call...

The nation’s top infectious disease expert said his words were “taken out of context” in the ad praising the president’s response to the pandemic. --- Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Sunday he wasn’t happy about being part of a campaign ad for President Donald Trump. “In my nearly five decades of public service, I have never publicly endorsed nor do I now endorse any political candidates,” he said in a statement, according to CNN and NBC News. “The comments attributed to me without my permission in the GOP campaign ad were taken out of context from a broad statement I...

Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, pointed out Monday evening that some coronavirus patients experience a “reversal” after they start to feel better. “He looks fine as you can see the way he looked when he came out of the hospital,” Fauci told CNN’s Chris Cuomo. “The issue is that he’s still early enough in the disease that it’s no secret that if you look at the clinical course of people sometimes, when you’re five to eight days in, you can have a reversal. A reversal meaning going in the wrong direction and getting into...

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, health care experts have been urging Americans to get vaccinated against influenza during the 2020-2021 flu season, to prevent a "twindemic," overlapping epidemics of the flu and COVID-19, which could overwhelm hospitals and increase people's risk of death.During the annual Influenza/Pneumococcal Disease news conference on Thursday, hosted by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, public health experts, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, urged the public to follow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendation for everyone to get vaccinated against flu. "Everybody, 6 months of age or older, should get an annual flu vaccine," asserted...

Protesters gathered outside the RTE studios in Donnybrook on Friday to tell Late Late Show guest Dr Anthony Fauci to ‘go home’. The American immunologist has served as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, and appeared on Friday’s episode of the Late Late Show via Zoom to speak to Ryan Tubridy about the progress of the COVID-19 pandemic. Posts encouraging people to protest Dr Fauci’s appearance on the Late Late Show circulated on social media earlier this week, announcing that a ‘rally for truth’ would be held from 5pm on September 25 outside ‘the...

AMERICA's top doctor Dr Anthony Fauci has revealed he's "impressed" with Ireland's handling of the Covid-19 crisis. The physician and immunologist praised how the country is dealing with the killer virus, saying: "I had my staff brief me". Dr Anthony Fauci made the comments on RTE 2 Dr Anthony Fauci made the comments on RTE He was 'briefed' by his team on the country's Covid plan 2 He was 'briefed' by his team on the country's Covid plan Asked if he was impressed with our Covid plan by Ryan Tubridy on RTE's Late Late Show, he said: "I am, it...