Dr. Anthony Fauci in 2020 on COVID-19 | 60 Minutes Archive
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Dr. Fauci states the U.S. pandemic is worsening with rising cases in 38 states and warns a national lockdown would require conditions to become "really, really bad." He criticizes the Rose Garden event as a super-spreader, calls the Trump campaign's use of his quote "outrageous," and confirms the White House has restricted his media appearances. He affirms masks work with "no doubt," notes his reversal from early guidance was evidence-based, and confirms he would take an FDA-approved vaccine after reviewing the data.
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Infections have passed the 8 million mark and are rising rapidly. There are more than 218,000 dead in the United States. Dr. Anthony Fauci has been the physician most Americans have relied upon for information during the pandemic. He is unhappily caught up in presidential politics under protection from death threats and forced to defend science itself. With 16 days until the election, the conversation began with a question about voting in person.
Dr. Fauci stated: "I'm going to try to vote in person. I like the atmosphere of going and voting." For someone who is 75 years old with hypertension and concerned about voting, he recommended: "Do an absentee ballot. No problem." He added that people could vote in person if they were careful.
Dr. Fauci has been a voice of logic and stability since the pandemic began. Worldwide, the number of new cases is surging at an alarming rate, as shown in a map by Johns Hopkins University. Russia reported a record number of infections this week, and cases are spiking in the UK, France, and Italy.
Dr. Fauci stated: "When you have a million deaths and over 30 million infections globally, you cannot say that we're on the road to essentially getting out of this. So quite frankly, I don't know where we are. It's impossible to say."
In the United States, infections are beginning to rise as the weather gets colder and people congregate indoors. Over the last two weeks, new cases have gone up in at least 38 states.
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