Published 13:06 IST, November 26th 2020
'Make a sacrifice': Fauci urges people to avoid Thanksgiving indoor gathering amid COVID
Urging people to take the COVID-19 situation ‘seriously,' public health expert on White House Coronavirus Task Force Fauci said that it was his “last call”.
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Leing infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci on vember 25 warned Americans to limit ir guest list this Thanksgiving and holiday season in view of an alarming projection of caselo and deaths due to vel coronavirus. In a televised interview with ABC’s Good Morning America, Fauci me a ‘final plea’ asking people to remain indoors and keeping garings as small as possible. “Make a sacrifice w to save lives and disease,” he of National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases said in a live-streamed dress. Fauci’s remarks come as US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued warnings about a dual outbreak of COVID-19 infections and influenza ahe of winter surge, reminding, that festivities could turn to ‘super spreer events’.
As of vember 25, US hit a grim milestone with a record 2,000 coronavirus fatalities, more than what was witnessed in March when COVID-19 first wave picked up. Urging people to take situation ‘seriously,' public health expert on White House Coronavirus Task Force said that it was his “last call” to make, as tritions begin tomorrow. “We all kw how difficult it is because it is such a beautiful tritional holiday. But by making that sacrifice, you’re going to avoid infections,” Fauci told ABC in a live dress. He warned that asymptomatic individuals infect a large group of people leing to a cluster outbreak in such garings. Furrmore, top health expert stated that in order to make future “look a lot brighter," people will have to abstain from garing indoor.
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In a statement to CNN, Dr. Fauci said that festivities increased risk when people decided to travel and assemble in congregate settings, ditionally, t wearing masks. He reiterated that in such times, chances are that re will be a surge "superimposed upon a surge" and implications would be reflected two, three weeks.
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'Wait' until after pandemic
As many as 88,000 positive cases of COVID-19 have needed hospital missions across US, pushing healthcare on brink of exhaustion. Thus far disease has impacted 12.6 million and a total of 260,000, have passed away due to covid related health complications. “I am very concerned about it,” Fauci said in a televised dress, ding, that he spoke to President-elect Joe Biden’s chief of staff, Ron Klain. Furr, he of NIAID stressed that may be more “safe and effective” vaccines shall be put in use to combat crisis authorized via a transparent approval process. In an interview on PBS NewsHour, Fauci urged that Americans must wait until after pandemic to resume festivities with many people, and must consider hering to safety protocols for sake of loved ones. Fauci gave a gentle reminder that [COVID-19] disease was fatal for vulnerable.
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13:08 IST, November 26th 2020