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An Interview With Dr. Anthony Fauci

The Daily

The New York Times

Daily News, News

4.4102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, described the current status of the pandemic in the United States as a “mixed bag” that is leaning more toward the positive than the negative. But, he said, there is still more work to do. In our conversation, he weighs in on vaccine mandates, booster shots and the end of the pandemic. Guest: Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading expert on infectious diseases.

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0:00.0

From New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro. This is Adali.

0:07.0

On yesterday's show, we explored the profound challenges facing local public health

0:15.5

officials as they tried to fight COVID-19. Today, we speak with the nation's leading

0:22.5

public health official, Dr. Anthony Fauci, about how he sees this moment, both for the

0:29.0

pandemic and his profession. It's Friday, November 12th.

0:41.0

Dr. Fauci, hey, it's Michael Bavaro. I'm good, Michael. Hold on, you just blew me out

0:48.1

of my seat. Oh, I'm sorry. No, that's not your fault. I turned it down. All right, we're

0:53.5

going to go ahead. Michael, say a few more words to see if it's good. Okay, a few more

0:58.5

words, Dr. Fauci. How's the volume? The volume's good now. Okay. Yeah. Well, you're not

1:03.1

being thrown back in your seat. So that's good sign. Right. Okay. Good. Thanks. Well, thank

1:07.7

you for making time for us. My pleasure. Dr. Fauci, it's very useful when we talk about

1:14.9

COVID-19 to orient ourselves in where we are. So just to start things in the simplest terms

1:23.4

of time, where are we right now in this pandemic in the US? What words would you use to describe

1:30.4

that? Well, probably it would be a mixed bag leaning towards the positive as opposed to

1:39.1

the negative. Why towards the positive? Well, because we have had a major surge that we

1:45.4

have peaked and are starting to come down positive. Positive is that we have a vaccine implementation

1:55.0

program that has done generally quite well, though I'd be happy to get into more details

2:01.5

about why it is not exactly where I would like to see it.

2:06.5

Number three, we have now approval for vaccines for children, which are an important component

2:13.5

of all of this. We've shown that boosters are safe and effective in dramatically increasing

2:22.8

the response, not only immunologically, but also when you look at the clinical data from

2:29.5

Israel, it's very clear that it reverses some of the waning effect that you see in people

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