Dr. Anthony Fauci: Coronavirus will rebound if governors reopen the economy too soon

[UltraVid id=28 ]when you look at an outbreak its to dynamic forces opposing each other if you leave the virus to its own devices it will take off if you do nothing to stop it if you put into place the kinds of things that we talked about first containment and then hopefully you never get to mitigation but containment is important those two forces are going to determine whether you’re gonna have a big outbreak so what dr. Redfield was saying first of all is that we will have coronavirus in the fall I am convinced of that because of the degree of transmissibility that has the global nature what happens with that will depend on how we’re able to contain it when it occurs and what we’re saying is that in the fall we will be much much better prepared to do the kind of containment compared to what happened to us this winter now the complicating issue is that unlike the syndromic and influenza like observances that we have that you could pick it up by clinically what’s happening it’s gonna get complicated by a influenza season and I believe that’s what dr. Redfield was saying that is gonna be complicated so whether or not it’s gonna be big or small is gonna depend on our response and and that’s what I think people sometimes have misunderstanding nobody can predict what is gonna happen with an outbreak but you can predict how are you gonna respond to it and that’s really very important so you would caution against people thinking that in the fall there’s not gonna be corona virus anymore we won’t have to worry about it it’ll be spotty and it won’t be a big problem there will be coronavirus in the fall if we do which we won’t but let’s take an imaginary period we say okay for ours forget about it we’re not gonna do anything about it it will take off that’s what viruses do but that’s not what’s gonna happen we are gonna respond to it to not allow it to do that well well you know if I were advising the governor I would tell him that he should be careful and I would advise him not to just turn the switch on and go because there is a danger of a rebound and I know there’s that desire to move ahead quickly that’s a natural human nature desire but going ahead and leap frogging in two phases where you should not be I would advise him as a health official and as a physician not to do that you