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Dr. Anthony Fauci Shuts Down Laura Ingraham's 'Misleading' Coronavirus Claim
“They’re really different,” Fauci said when the Fox News host tried to compare the coronavirus to HIV or SARS.
“The idea that we are definitely going to have a vaccine, we didn’t really approach much else in the same way as we are pegging going back to normal with a vaccine. Did we?” Ingraham asked.
Fauci, who has worked on responses on epidemics for several presidents, took umbrage with the comparison, telling the host the coronavirus was a different beast entirely and was “unprecedented” in its rate of transmission.
“We don’t have a vaccine for HIV/AIDS, but we have spectacularly effective treatment,” he said. “People who invariably would have died years ago right now are leading essentially normal lives. SARS is a different story. SARS disappeared.”
“The idea that we are definitely going to have a vaccine, we didn’t really approach much else in the same way as we are pegging going back to normal with a vaccine. Did we?” Ingraham asked.
Fauci, who has worked on responses on epidemics for several presidents, took umbrage with the comparison, telling the host the coronavirus was a different beast entirely and was “unprecedented” in its rate of transmission.
“We don’t have a vaccine for HIV/AIDS, but we have spectacularly effective treatment,” he said. “People who invariably would have died years ago right now are leading essentially normal lives. SARS is a different story. SARS disappeared.”
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“I think it’s a little bit misleading maybe to compare what we are going through now with HIV or SARS,” he added, “they’re really different.”
Ingraham continued to press Fauci about SARS, asking if that disease disappeared, “this could as well, correct?”
“You know, anything could, Laura, but I have to tell you the degree of efficiency of transmissibility of this is really unprecedented in anything that I’ve seen,” he said. “It’s an extraordinarily efficient virus in transmitting from one person to another.”
“Those kind of viruses don’t just disappear.”
Ingraham continued to press Fauci about SARS, asking if that disease disappeared, “this could as well, correct?”
“You know, anything could, Laura, but I have to tell you the degree of efficiency of transmissibility of this is really unprecedented in anything that I’ve seen,” he said. “It’s an extraordinarily efficient virus in transmitting from one person to another.”
“Those kind of viruses don’t just disappear.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fauci-laura-ingraham-coronavirus-comparisons-covid-19_n_5e992895c5b6ead1400a6b31
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"Those kind of viruses don't just disappear."
Trump said it would disappear like magic.
