Fauci: ‘It’s Possible’ Hundreds of Thousands or Millions of Americans Could Die

This morning during an interview on CNN’s ‘State of the Union With Jake Tapper’ Dr, Anthony Fauci explained why it’s so important for Americans to take the coronavirus pandemic and state and federals recommendations for keeping safe seriously.

Dr. Fauci is known on both sides of the aisle as a no nonsense guy who is serious about his job as the head infectious disease doctor in the United States.

Fauci was asked “One week ago we were reporting 19 deaths, 490 infected. Today, almost 60 deaths. There have been estimates of hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. Who could die or in the worst case scenario, millions. Can you tell the American people that that is possible?”

“You know, it’s possible because when you do a model, you have a worst case scenario, the best case scenario, and the reality is how you react to that will depend where you’re going to be on that curve,” Fauci answered. “So obviously we are clearly going to have more infections. There’s going to be more problems with regard to morbidity and mortality.”

“The challenge we have right now is how do we blunt that. I’ve said many times if you just leave it alone and let the virus to its own devices, it will go way up and come down naturally over a period of several weeks. Unfortunately for our colleagues in Italy and France and certainly in China, that’s what happened.”

Fauci concluded “our challenge right now is to do two things, is to prevent the new influx of cases, hence the travel restrictions, and for what we’re dealing with right now, is to know that we’re going to get more infections but blunt it so that we don’t have that sharp peak, so we have a smaller hump. Even with that we’ll have people getting infected but we need to try to get there as opposed to there.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci says there are 12,700 ventilators in the ‘stockpile’: “If you don’t have enough ventilators, it’s obvious people who need it will not be able to get it. That’s when you’re going to have to make some very tough decisions.” #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/Z5uTnh6Rp0

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“I would like to see a dramatic diminution of the personal interaction we see in restaurants and in bars,” Dr. Fauci says about the coronavirus. Young people are not immune: “There are going to be people who are young who are going to wind up getting seriously ill” #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/iF5J2gccta

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So while there is absolutely no need to panic about the coronavirus, it is imperative that we keep indoors and keep our distance between others so we stay as safe as possible.

Do you support Dr. Fauci's efforts?

The goal is to ensure the disease infects the fewest number of people possible.

This can be done voluntarily, or as we have seen in other countries by government order if things get out of hand.

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