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>>> AMERICAS FIGHT AGAINST THE
PANDEMIC SEEMS TO BE SLOWING
DOWNRIGHT WHEN WE NEED TO SPEED
UP.
FEWER PEOPLE ARE JUMPING AT THE
CHANCE TO GET THEIR VAK SI
NEIGHS.
THE U.S. HAS DROPPED BELOW TWO
MILLION DOSES PER DAY.
LAST MONTH THE NATION PEAKED AT
MORE THAN THREE MILLION A DAY.
SOME STATES ARE TURNING DOWN
VACCINES FROM SOUTH CAROLINA TO
WASHINGTON.
THIS SURPLUS AMOUNTS TO HUNDREDS
OF THOUSANDS OF DOSES JUST THIS
WEEK.
DESPITE THE SLOW DOWN THIS WEEK,
THE WHITE HOUSE SET A NEW
VACCINATION GOAL.
PRESIDENT BIDEN WANTS 70% OF
ADULTS VACCINATED PARTIALLY BY
INDEPENDENCE DAY.
JOINING US NOW TO ANSWER YOUR
QUESTIONS IS THE PRESIDENTS CHIEF MEDICAL ADVISER,
CHIEF MEDICAL ADVISER,
DR. ANTHONY FAUCI.
WELCOME.
ITS GOOD TO HAVE YOU WITH US.
>> THANK YOU.
BMP I GET INTO SOME OF THE
AUDIENCE QUESTIONS, CAN I DO A
QUICK GUT CHECK WITH YOU.
I WOULD LIKE TO BELIEVE AT THIS
POINT THERES SOME PART OF YOU
THATS THINKING, WE GOT THIS?
WE GOT A LOT OF UPS AND DOWNS
BUT WERE ON THE RIGHT TRACK.
WE GOT THERE.
IS THAT HOW YOU FEEL OR ARE YOU
STILL A LITTLE PESSIMISTIC?
>> NO.
I DO FEEL THAT WAY, JOSHUA FOR
THE MOST PART.
I STILL WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT
WE DONT DECLARE VICTORY
PREMATURELY.
AS YOU SAID, WE REALLY NEED TO
GET MORE PEOPLE VACCINATED.
WE WANT TO GET THAT 70% OF
ADULTS GET SINGLE DOSE BY JULY
4th AND EVEN GO BEYOND THAT.
WERE ON THE RIGHT TRACK TO
WHERE WE WANT TO BE.
IN THAT REGARD, I DO HAVE THAT
FEELING THAT WE GOT IT BUT WE
WANT TO MAKE SURE WE DONT LOOK
THE OTHER WAY AND LET IT GET BY
US.
WE GOT TO STICK WITH IT WITH THE
PUBLIC HEALTH MANAGERS AND GET
AS MANY PEOPLE VACCINATED AS WE
POSSIBLY CAN.
>> THIS MORNING ON ANOTHER
NETWORK YOU SAID ITS PROBABLY
TIME TO BEGIN RELAXING SOME OF
THE INDOOR MASK MANDATES.
WHAT WILL BE THE DATA POINT FOR
YOU TO LET US KNOW THAT IT IS
THE RIGHT TIME?
>> WELL, THE CDC IS GOING TO BE
COMING OUT IN A ROLLING FASHION
WITH RECOMMENDATIONS AS WE GET
MORE PEOPLE VACCINATED AND AS WE
DO THAT WITHOUT A DOUBT, YOURE
GOING TO START SEEING THE CASES
COMING DOWN EVEN MORE SO.
JUST A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO WE
WERE AVERAGING 60,000 CASES A
DAY.
WERE NOW DOWN AROUND 41, 42,000
CASES A DAY.
ITS STILL TOO HIGH TO FEEL
GREAT BUT ITS GOING IN THE
RIGHT DIRECTION.
AS IT CONTINUES TO GO DOWN, THE
CDC WILL BE RELAXING THE
GUIDELINES IN INDOOR, THE
WORKPLACE, THINGS LIKE THAT.
WE HAVE THAT TO LOOK FORWARD TO.
IF WE WANT THE GET BACK TO
NORMAL, WHAT WE NEED TO DO IS A
COMMUNITY IS GET VACCINATED.
>> WE GOT A NUMBER OF QUESTIONS
FROM OUR AUDIENCE, INCLUDING
SEVERAL QUESTIONS THAT HAVE TO
DO WITH CHILDREN.
PARTICULARLY, SIBLINGS.
ONE OF OUR VIEWERS ASKED, IF AN
EELD
OLDER SIBLING IS OLDER
VACCINATED IS IT OKAY TO SIGN
THEM UP FOR AN ACTIVE BEFORE
YOUNGER SIBLINGS ARE VAK SI FLATED OR SHOULD WE HOLD OFF
FLATED OR SHOULD WE HOLD OFF
UNTIL EVERY ONE IS FULLY
VACCINATED?
>> YOU SHOULDNT REFRAIN FROM
HAVING ONE MEMBER OF FAMILY DO
SOMETHING BECAUSE ANOTHER MEMBER
IS NOT VACCINATED.
THE FULLY VACCINATED PERSON CAN
DO THINGS ACCORDING TO THE CDC
GUIDELINES WHICH MEANS THEY CAN
DO ALMOST ANYTHING OUT DOORS
EXCEPT GO TO A VERY HIGHLY
CONCENTRATED NUMBER OF PEOPLE
LIKE IN A LARGE STADIUM FOR NOW.
EVERYTHING ELSE FROM AN OUT DOOR
STANDPOINT FINE.
INDOOR, IT REALLY DEPENDS ON THE
LEVEL OF INFECTION IN THE
COMMUNITY.
AS THE LEVEL OF INFECTION IN THE
COMMUNITY GETS LOWER AND LOWER,
THE RISK TO A PERSON GETS
EXTREMELY LOW.
BECOME VACCINATED ITSELF IS
GOING TO MARKETEDLY DIMINISH ANY
RISK WHETHER THAT RISK IS OUT
DOOR OR INDOOR.
AGAIN, THATS THE THING WE WANT
PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND.
THE RISK BECOMES DRAMATICALLY
DIMINISHED.
AS FAR AS THE UNVACCINATED CHILD
GOES, AGAIN, FOLLOW THE CDC
GUIDELINES OF WHAT YOU DO IF
YOURE UNVACCINATED.
>> ONE MOM SAYS I GOT THE J AND
J VACCINE FOUR WEEKS AGO.
MY 10-YEAR-OLD IS HIGH RISK.
WE HAVENT LEFT THE HOUSE IN
MONTHS.
NOW THAT IM VACCINATED IF I DO
GO SHOPPING, HOW LIKELY IS IT
CAN I INFECT MY SON AND HOW SON
E SOON CAN HE BE VACCINATED?
DR. FAUCI.
>> THE RISK IS NOT ZERO BUT IT
IS EXTREMELY LOW.
THE FACT THAT MOM IS VAK SI
FLATEDFLAT --
VACCINATED DIMINISHES ANY RISK
TO THE CHILD.
WE ARE GETTING TO FOINTSPOINT WE
BE VACCINATED KIDS ARE
ADOLESCENTS
ADOLESCENTS.
>> TEN YEARS OLD.
TEN YEARS OLD WILL PROBABLY HAVE
TO WAIT A LITTLE BIT AS GET INTO
FALL AND GET THE CHILD FSH IF
THE MOTHER SAYS THE CHILD IS A
HIGH RISK THAN EVEN MORE REASON
TO GET THAT CHILD VACCINATED TO
PREVENT THE KID FROM GETTING TO
THE POINT WHERE THEY ARE AT A
HIGH RISK OF GETTING SEVERE
OUTCOME.
>> THESE ARE GREAT ANSWERS TO
SOME OF OUR VIEWERS QUESTIONS.
MICK HAS A QUESTION THAT LOT OF
PEOPLE ARE ASKING AS IT RELATES
TO GETTING THE WHOLE COUNTRY
VACCINATED.
>> IF NOT ENOUGH AMERICANS GET
VACCINATED, CAN NEW OR UNKNOWN
VARIANTS NOT COVERED BY CURRENT
VACCINES PUT FULLY VACCINATED
PEOPLE AT RISIC OFK OF GETTING C
AS WE PUSH TOWARD HERD IMMUNITY,
THIS GAP OF THE PEOPLE WHO DONT
BECOME PART OF THE HERD, FOR
LACK OF A BETTER TERM, MIGHT
BECOME A WEAK SPOT THAT ALLOWS
VARY YANTSIANT WE HAVENT DEVELO
MEDICINE FOR TO SNEAK IN AND
RUIN OUR HARD WORK WITH GETTING
PEOPLE VACCINATED.
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY?
>> THATS GREAT QUESTION.
THATS THE REASON WE WANT TO GET
AS MANY PEOPLE VACCINATED AS WE
CAN.
IF THE VARY YANTS COMES IN, THE
VARIANTS THAT BECOME DOMINANT IN
THE COUNTRY HAPPEN TO BE
SUSCEPTIBLE TO THE VACCINES THAT
WERE USING.
THAT DOESNT MEAN THAT SOME TIME
IN THE FUTURE WE MAY GET A
VARIANT COME IN FROM ANOTHER
COUNTRY OR SOME OTHER PLACE AND
WIND UP PUTTING PEOPLE AT RISK
EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE VACCINATED.
ANOTHER REALLY GOOD REASON TO
GET AS MANY PEOPLE VACCINATED AS
YOU CAN.
ALL THE QUESTIONS YOU ASK ARE
POINTING TO WHAT WiiERE TRYING
DO.
>> I THINK I UNDERSTAND THIS.
I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT I HAVE
THIS RIGHT.
IN TERMS OF SOME FOLKS HESITANCY
ABOUT GETTING THE VACCINE, I
FEEL LIKE PART HAS TO DO WITH
THE SPEED WITH WHICH THE VACCINE
EMERGED.
WE DISCOVERED SARS COV-2
CATEGORIZED THIS DECIDE AND
WITHIN A YEARS TIME, WE HAVE
VACCINES.
THEY WORK WELL.
IT FELT LIKE IT KIND OF CAME OUT
OF NOWHERE BUT MY UNDERSTANDING
IS THERE HAD BEEN YEARS OP
CLINICAL RESEARCH ABOUT CORONAVIRUS SAYS THAT ALIGNED
CORONAVIRUS SAYS THAT ALIGNED
JUST AT THE RIGHT TIMES.
WE HAD DONE ALL THIS PREPARATION
AND THE OPPORTUNITY EMERGED TO
APPLY THAT BASIC SCIENCE TO REAL
THREAT.
IT LOOKED LIKE THE VAK SEEBCCINE
OUT OF THE NOWHERE THA BUT THEY
WERE THE RESULTS OF WORK THAT
COLEASED AT THE RIGHT TIME.
DO I HAVE THAT RIGHT?
>> YOU HAVE IT SPOT ON.
WE HAD IDENTIFICATION OF THE
VIRUS IN EARLY JANUARY AND BY
TIME WE GOT TO DECEMBER, WE WERE
PUTTING VACCINE DOSES INTO
PEOPLES ARMS.
THAT IS UNPRECEDENTED IN SPEED.
HOWEVER, IT WAS ANTE DATED BY
DECADES OF RESEARCH ON THE
PLATFORM TECHNOLOGY SUCH AS THE
MRNA AS WELL AS DECADES OF
RESEARCH ON CORONAVIRUSS AND
OTHER VIRUSS TO S TOS TO GIVE YO
PO POTENT VACCINE.
THINGS DID NOT START ON JANUARY
2020.
JANUARY 2020 WAS THE CULMINATION
OF DECADES OF RESEARCH.
A FEW MORE QUICK QUESTIONS
INCLUDING THIS ONE FROM A VIEWER
ABOUT TRAVEL.
THE VIEWER ASKS, I HAVE FAMILY
LIVING IN EUROPE IN THE
NETHERLANDS THAT I WOULD LOVE TO
HUG AGAIN.
DO YOU FORSEE A LIFT IN THE
TRAVEL BAN WITH EUROPE OR
VACCINE PASSPORTS IN THE NEAR
FUTURE?
WE KNOW THE G20 COUNTRY STRARTSA
CONTEMPLATING PASSPORT.
SOME KIND OF PROOF OF VAK SI
FLAGS
NATION FOR INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL.
WHAT DO YOU SEE?
>> CERTAINLY THERES NOT GOING
BE VACCINE PASSPORTS THAT WILL
BE AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL.
THERE MIGHT BE AIRLINES THAT
WILL REQUIRE SHOWING PROOF OF
VA
VACCINATION.
THERE MAY BE COMPANIES THAT
REQUIRE IT.
WE KNOW THAT COLLEGES ARE
ALREADY TALKING ABOUT A
REQUIREMENT FOR VERIFYICATION OF
VACCINATION.
ITS NOT GOING TO BE FEDERALLY
MANDATED.
IF YOU GO TO SEE A RELATIVE
WHERE EVER THEY MAY BE, YES,
ABSOLUTELY.
YOU CAN BE IN THERE.
YOU DONT NEED TO WEAR MASKS IN
THE CONFINES OF A HOME AND YOU
COULD HAVE PHYSICAL CONTACT.
>> FEW MORE QUICK QUESTIONS.
NEXT MONTH IS THE 40th
ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST CDC
ARTICLE ABOUT THE DISEASE WE
KNOW NOW AS AIDS.
THIS IS THE 40th ANNIVERSARY.
YOU HAVE BEEN WITH THE FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT SINCE THE MID-80s
FIGHTING AIDS AND OTHER
PANDEMICS.
DO YOU THINK WHAT WE HAVE
LEARNED WITH FIGHTING COVID-19
CAN HELP US FIGHT HIV AIDS.
MAYBE HELP US DEVELOP A VACCINE
OR ARE THEY TWO DIFFERENT?
>> NO.
IT GOES BOTH WAYS.
THE WORK ON THE STRUCTURAL
BIOLOGY WORKING FOR YEARS ON AN
HIV VACCINE WAS EXTREMELY
HELPFUL IN US GETTING VACCINE
FOR SARS COV-2.
GOING BACK IN THE OTHER
DIRECTION, THE PLATFORM FOR
OTHER VACCINES, THE MRNA THAT
PROVED TO BE BEYOND EXPECTATIONS
SUCCESSFUL, WERE GOING TO START
USING THAT PLATFORM TECHNOLOGY
IN HIV.
ONE THE HELPING THE OTHER.
A GOOD EXAMPLE OF HOW SCIENCE
HELPS ONE FIELD VERSUS ANOTHER
FIELD.
>> I GOT ONE LATE QUESTION THAT
CAME IN FROM MY MOTHER.
IM GOING BE A GOOD SON.
IM GOING TO GIVE HER THE LAST
QUESTION.
HOW LIKELY IS A SECOND BOOSTER?
>> WELL, FIRST OF ALL, PLEASE
WISH YOUR MOTHER A HAPPY
MOTHERS DAY.
>> I WILL.
>> I WILL ANSWER HER QUESTION.
IT IS -- LIKELY.
I THINK MORE LIKELY THAN NOT
THAT WE MAY NEED A BOOSTER
BECAUSE THE DURABILITY OF
PROTECTION IS UNCLEAR RIGHT NOW.
ITS ENTIRELY CONCEIVABLE THAT
AFTER A CERTAIN PERIOD OF TIME,
THAT COULD BE A YEAR, YEAR AND A
HALF, WHERE THE DURABILITY OF
THE LEVEL OF PROTECTION STARTS
TO GO DOWN.
IF THATS THE CASE, IT MAKES
PERFECT SENSE TO CONSIDER A
BOOST.
>> I CANT TELL YOU HOW MUCH I
APPRECIATE THE WORK YOUVE HAD
TO DO OVER THE LAST YEAR OR SO
TRYING TO EXPLAIN ALL OF THIS
COMPLICATED EMERGING SCIENCE
ESPECIALLY WITH QANON AND
CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND THE DARK
CORNERS OF THE INTERNET KIND OF
COMPETING WITH YOUR AND YOUR
EXPERTISE.
WE APPRECIATE YOUR MAKING TIME
TO ANSWER OUR QUESTIONS.