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| DATE | 2020-08-02 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Faucin Nightmares
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NY Times
The top U.S. infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, delivered
a grim assessment of the devastation wrought around the world by the
coronavirus, describing Covid-19 on Tuesday as his “worst nightmare” — a
new, highly contagious respiratory infection that causes a significant
rate of illness and death.
“In a period of four months, it has devastated the whole world,” Dr.
Fauci told biotech executives during a conference held by the
Biotechnology Innovation Organization. “And it isn’t over yet.”
His discussion with a moderator was conducted remotely and videotaped
for conference participants. Although Dr. Fauci said he had known that
an outbreak like this could occur, one aspect surprised him: “how
rapidly it just took over the planet.”
An efficiently transmitted disease can spread worldwide in six months or
a year, but “this took about a month,” Dr. Fauci said. He attributed the
rapid spread to the contagiousness of the virus and extensive world
travel by infected people.
Vaccines are widely regarded as the best hope of stopping or at least
slowing the pandemic, and Dr. Fauci said he was “almost certain” that
more than one would be successful. Several are already being tested in
people, and at least one is expected to move into large, Phase 3 trials
in July.
But much is still unknown about the disease and how it attacks the body,
research that Dr. Fauci described as “a work in progress.” Another
looming question, he said, was whether survivors who were seriously ill
would fully recover.
As the U.S. caseload approaches two million, here’s a look at other
important developments around the country:
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How does this guy end up with the title "The top U.S. infectious disease
expert" - You have to be kidding me. There are ID experts all across
the US and I am sure many are better than Fauci.
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that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological
proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
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Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and extermination camps,
but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013
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