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Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Friday, “We don’t inevitably have to have a second wave. I mean people talk about it but it doesn’t necessarily have to occur.” Two months ago, Fauci said just the opposite: “We will have coronavirus in the fall: I am convinced of that.”

Last month, when Moderna released preliminary data on a phase 1 trial of its coronavirus vaccine, the early signs of success made headlines and sent the company's stock price soaring. But Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said that though the initial data from the company looks "very promising from the neutralizing antibody standpoint," he disapproved of how the company jumped to share the news before it had more data. "I didn't like that," Fauci told STAT News' Helen Branswell in an interview published Monday. "What we would have preferred to do, quite frankly,...

White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx told Fox News on Saturday night that the U.S. significantly underestimated the number of asymptomatic cases that existed of the coronavirus. “I think we’re learning every day about the virus and how it interacts with us as human hosts. And that’s been very important to constantly be triangulating data,” Birx said. “I think we underestimated very early on the number of asymptomatic cases. And I think we’re really beginning to understand there are people that get infected that those symptoms are so low-grade that they don’t even know that they’re infected.”

Fauci warns reopening states: 'You can't just leap over things' The infectious disease expert and coronavirus task force member was interviewed on NBC's "TODAY" show. WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci said Thursday that states reopening their economies "can't just leap over things" that would potentially allow the coronavirus to rebound. In an interview on NBC's "TODAY" show, Savannah Guthrie asked Fauci whether the states that are beginning to reopen have the capability to do contact tracing and Fauci responded that while he can't go through a list of each of them, he urged those that don't have that capability to...

Dr. Anthony Fauci discussed the possibility of having to cancel the entire MLB season Wednesday. Yankees president Randy Levine isn’t giving up, saying he believes everybody with a stake in Major League Baseball getting its season started should cooperate with each other. Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told the New York Times, “Safety, for the players and for the fans, trumps everything. If you can’t guarantee safety, then unfortunately you’re going to have to bite the bullet and say, ‘We may have to go without this sport for this season.’ I would love...

During an appearance Monday on Telemundo's "Un Nuevo Dia" to discuss the pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci was asked what he thought of Brad Pitt's portrayal of him in a skit that roasted President Donald Trump. "I think he did great," the 79-year-old physician and immunologist said of Pitt's "Saturday Night Live" appearance. "I mean, I'm a great fan of Brad Pitt, and that's the reason why when people ask me who'd I like to play me I mention Brad Pitt because he's one of my favorite actors. I think he did a great job."

Dr. Anthony Fauci said “bottom line” Gov. Andrew Cuomo has to have the ventilators he needs to treat people stricken with the coronavirus in New York as it struggles with the largest number of cases in the nation. “One way or another, he needs the ventilators that he needs and hopefully we will get him the ventilators that he needs. They may be closer to him that is realized but if they’re not, we’ll get them there. And if they are we’ll try to get him access to the ones that are there, Fauci said on CNN’s “State of the...

... The U.S. government’s foremost infection disease expert says the United States could experience more than 100,000 deaths and millions of infections from the coronavirus pandemic. ... “I would say between 100,000 and 200,000 cases,” he said, correcting himself to say he meant deaths. “We’re going to have millions of cases.” But he added “I don’t want to be held to that” because the pandemic is “such a moving target.” ...

'The mainstream base is not concerned with where Obama's birth certificate is'PALM BEACH, Fla. – Donald Trump and Rush Limbaugh are two of America's best-known characters, but when it comes to articulating a truly conservative political message, Rush says he needs to take the Donald to school to get it right. "If Trump is serious about [running for president], I'm going to request a meeting," Limbaugh said today from his South Florida radio studio. "I'm gonna take him aside. I'm gonna say, 'Whoever is telling you about conservatism is misleading you a little bit.'" Trump has been making the rounds...

If you wonder whether Donald Trump is serious about running for president, tune in to the finale of “The Celebrity Apprentice” on May 15. Trump plans to say on the NBC show that he will be holding a press conference in the next few days. At that press conference in the Trump Tower in New York, Trump will be announcing his candidacy for the presidency. Even then, many will snicker that it’s all a publicity stunt. But that defies the facts and common sense. Of all the people on the planet, Donald Trump is the last person who needs more...

Clinton Denies Role in Gays-in-Military Debate Question June Kronholz reports on the presidential race. Sen. Hillary Clinton was put on the defense by questions linking her campaign to retired Brig Gen. Keith Kerr, whose question on gays in the military briefly electrified last night’s Republican debate. Following the CNN/YouTube debate, moderator Anderson Cooper announced that bloggers were claiming that Kerr served on Clinton’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender steering committee, and quickly apologized for including his question. Clinton’s campaign hotly denied that the question, posed in a YouTube video, was a “plant” by the campaign. “We didn’t do this, we...