As Dr Anthony Fauci prepares to leave his role as chief medical adviser at the White House, the world is in a much better place in the fight against COVID-19. But the infectious disease expert is warning against complacency and says the virus still poses a threat.
abc.net.au/news/anthony-fauci-covid-pandemic-lessons-learned/101744720As Anthony Fauci prepares to leave his role as chief medical adviser at the White House, the United States — and indeed the world — is in a much better place in the fight against COVID-19. But the infectious disease expert is warning against complacency and says the virus still poses a threat.
"You forget about the fact that you need to stay perpetually prepared for something that hasn't happened yet. That's a tough thing to get people excited about." "That has to do with a larger problem of the healthcare systems globally, and the lack of equity of healthcare provision globally. That is an important problem that transcends COVID."Dr Fauci has been an advisor to seven US presidents from Ronald Reagan to Joe Biden, and the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for 38 years.
"But when that difference becomes hostile and divisive to the point where people don't even cooperate with each other, and as a result, you have unnecessary suffering and death and a pandemic, I never would have imagined, to be quite frank with you, that it would have gotten this bad. "When it got out of China and went into Europe, particularly in northern Italy, and we were looking across the Atlantic … their [healthcare] system was being overrun," he said."In fact, even worse, a country as rich as the United States to have 1 million deaths thus far is just extraordinary and truly tragic.
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