Fauci is just "posing" on this "suggestion" implying Trump DELAYED and more people suffered... Found an interview with USA TODAY from Feb 17th that just KILLS this whole media canard...
Read it and recognize this topic for what it is -- GRANDSTANDING and maybe a political motive...
Did the new coronavirus start in a market? Is China fudging COVID-19 numbers? How close are we to a vaccine? Do masks work? Dr. Anthony Fauci answers.
www.usatoday.com
Q. Is this a pandemic?
A. The World Health Organization is not declaring this a global pandemic, because there isn't a lot of sustained transmission throughout the world. We're really kind of at that brink. If China can contain their outbreak much better than they are and prevent wide distribution, we could avoid a global pandemic. If they don't, we're gonna have a global pandemic. We're teetering right on the line of what's going to happen.
Q. Is there a hard definition of a pandemic?
A. It really is soft. There's no number. It really is open to some interpretation. The general interpretation is that when you have a new pathogen that's spreading widely throughout multiple regions of the world in which there is substantial, sustained transmission (then you have a pandemic).
Q. Could there be a lot of cases in the U.S. that we don’t know about?
A. The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) is trying to find this out. Are there under-the-radar infections in this country that have gotten in before we did the airport funneling and things? They're doing a sort of a sentinel surveillance in five cities —- New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and Chicago — of people who come into clinics with flu-like symptoms but who don't test positive for the flu.
Q. How confident are you that the Chinese are doing what needs to be done?
A. They're doing things that have completely broken the paradigm of how you respond. They have been, in a draconian way, shutting down everything. They have locked down 50 million people, including the entire 11 million-person city of Wuhan. They will not allow anyone into Beijing unless they have a 14-day quarantine. They're essentially locking people who test positive in their houses. I mean, they're doing things that are almost unheard of in the annals of public health.
Q. Will it work?
A. As unusual and extreme as it is, it might actually, ultimately, have an effect. There's this report that the number of new cases for the last couple of days in China has gone down. I don't put much strength in that unless I see it really start to come down and down and down. A few days of going down doesn't mean anything to me. But if it continues to go down, that might be a signal that they're having an effect of what otherwise would be extreme means.
Q. That would never happen here, would it? Locking down 50 million people?
A. No, not a chance. It would never happen.
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PLEASE --- Bookmark this post the NEXT TIME any TDS'ers quote Fauci "back guessing" the President.. It's CLEAR he doesn't think we knew where HIS head was at back on mid February.. And WHY he's doing this on political Sunday morning shows??? May BE the run-up to the NEXT failed "impeachment" effort...
www.breitbart.com
