Coronavirus is an insidious virus
How do you protect yourself from the virus?
Fauci explained the varying degrees of risk. He said theΒ virus is easily spread by sneezing and coughing. TheΒ dropletsΒ hang around a bit.
The virus is transferred through handshaking, so just do not do this any more.
Opening door knobs with your hands is another problem.. You cannot be obsessive, but this is a real issue. The virus can live on inanimate objects for a while.
He stressed the importance of continuing social distancing and frequent hand washing. Social distancing of 6 feet is a necessity.
You have to wash your hands as often as you can, as you may be inadvertently touching stuff. And while we cannot get overly obsessed with touching packages, we just need to be mindful of how the virus lives onΒ surfaces
Even if you are young you are not absolutely invulnerable
Noah also asked Dr.Fauci to address the mistaken belief that young people are immune to coronavirus.
Dr.Fauci confirmed that βEven though you are young, you are not absolutely invulnerable,β
He says many young people who have gotten sick and are dying from the disease do not have underlying illnesses.
Many are also asymptomatic and are passing it along to more vulnerable members of their families. SoΒ younger people have a responsibility. They have to protect others.
No proven, safe therapy for the Coronavirus
And, as Dr.Fauci has said before, it is the virus that sets the timeline.
βPeople say, arbitrarily, in two weeks weβre going to be OK. But it depends upon the kinetics of the outbreak,β
βIn general, if you look historically at the countries that have been through the whole cycle,Β In China it was about eight weeks or so before it went way up and then way down.β
The Bottom Line on Coronavirus in the US
Dr.Fauci assured Noah that the federal government and local and state governments are working together.
Explaining, βThe federal government is a facilitator. Itβs a supplier, itβs a supporter and thatβs the way things should be going, and thatβs what weβre starting to see now as weβre catching up on things that werenβt done so well at the beginningβ¦ It really is a marriage between the federal government as the facilitator and supporter of the real action is, at the state and local level,β he concluded.
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About Trevor Noah: https://www.trevornoah.com/about
Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., NIAID Director: https://www.niaid.nih.gov/about/director
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