Fauci to USA Today Editorial Board well into the ***THIRD WEEK OF FEBRUARY. neither the Board nor Fauci show concern about the US:
17 Feb updated 18 Feb 2020: USA Today: FAUCI: ‘Danger of getting coronavirus now is just minisculely low’
Q: How confident are you that the Chinese are doing what needs to be done?
FAUCI: 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: That would never happen here, would it? Locking down 50 million people?
FAUCI: No, not a chance. It would never happen...
Q: How can you protect yourself against both flu and coronavirus?
FAUCI: Do what we tell you to do all the time. Wash your hands as frequently as you can. Stay away from crowded places where people are coughing and sneezing. If, in fact you are coughing and sneezing, cover your cough. All the things that we say each year. That’s the thing we should be doing right now. But the danger of getting coronavirus now is just minisculely low.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/02/17/new-coronavirus-what-dont-we-know-dr-anthony-fauci-q-a-opinion/4790996002/
THIRD WEEK IN FEBRUARY AGAIN:
12 Apr: NYT: Trump Lashes Out at Fauci Amid Criticism of Slow Virus Response
The president retweeted a post calling for the government’s top infectious disease specialist to be fired after the doctor acknowledged that shutting down the country earlier could have saved lives.
By Peter Baker
By the THIRD WEEK OF FEBRUARY, advisers had drafted a list of measures they believed would soon be necessary, like school closures, sports and concert cancellations and stay-at-home orders, but the president did not embrace them until mid-March.
Dr. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, said on Sunday that earlier imposition of such policies would have made a difference...
(Fauci ON CNN) “Obviously, no one is going to deny that. But what goes into those kinds of decisions is complicated. But you’re right. Obviously, if we had, right from the very beginning, shut everything down, it may have been a little bit different. But there was a lot of pushback about shutting things down.”...
Public health experts like Dr. Fauci have urged caution about resuming normal life too soon for fear of instigating another wave of illness and death...
Dr. Fauci has become a celebrated figure among much of the public, which trusts him far more than Mr. Trump, according to polls...
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/us/politics/trump-fauci-coronavirus.html
CNN/NYT/AP/SCHIFF - CONCERTED EFFORT TO GET TRUMP ON EASTER SUNDAY. IF THERE REALLY WAS A GENUINE SCARY PANDEMIC, WOULD THEY REALLY BEHAVE THIS WAY?
Wash your hands and cover your mouth...I’m 76 and have known that since I was 2.