Infectious diseases expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said Wednesday that he believed the world would “take control” of Covid-19, but “I don’t see us eliminate it,” expressing a consistent opinion with public fitness experts, but directly contradicting President Donald Trump’s claims made as recently as Tuesday that the virus will “disappear.”
Fauci said in a virtual interview organized through TB Alliance that, while it might not be conceivable covid-19 would disappear completely, as SARS did, it will be imaginable to “return it to such a low point that we will not be.” in the position we met recently for a prolonged era of time.”
Fauci under pressure “a mixture of smart measures of public fitness, a degree of global collective immunity and a smart vaccine” to bring down the virus, noting that he “feels cautiously positive that we will get” an effective vaccine.
“I think when we put those 3 elements together, we’ll take them, either this year or next,” Fauci said.
The comments are raw for Trump, who repeated his statement at a news convention Tuesday that Covid-19 will “disappear.”
The suggestion that the virus will not be completely eliminated is echoed by other global public aptitude experts; World Health Organization Emergency Director Dr Mike Ryan warned in May that, like HIV, “the virus can also be just another endemic virus in our communities, and this virus would probably never happen.”
Similarly, the director of the Wellcome Trust, Professor Sir Jeremy Farrar, said Tuesday in the UK House of Commons that, even with an effective vaccine and treatments, “humanity will live with this virus for the matrix … over the next few decades.”
57777: The number of new Covid-19 instances registered in the United States on July 21 at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Fauci’s contradiction over Trump comes when the White House has recently sought to undermine and marginalize infectious disease experts, who have continually issued more powerful warnings and statements about the pandemic than the president and his allies. The White House sparked an earlier protest in July by offering the media news with allegedly false statements Fauci made about the pandemic in an obvious attempt to discredit it, which CNN described as “similar to opposition studies about a political opponent” and White House trade adviser Peter Navarro described Fauci as “completely wrong” in a recent editorial. Fauci also said he was “not invited” to appear with Trump at Tuesday’s press conference, sometimes speaking at the president’s press meetings about the coronavirus in the past. The public fitness expert, who is increasingly trustworthy through the U.S. public than Trump in the pandemic, denounced the White House’s attacks on him as counterproductive and called attempts to discredit him as “strange” and “completely false” in a recent interview with the Atlantic.
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