“We had a graphic showing about a dozen states, some, like North Carolina, allowing more fans in the stands. We had more indoor bars being open and things like this,” Todd began his line of questioning. “You and [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director] Dr. [Rochelle] Walensky were like ‘not yet.’ Why not yet? Why is this week not the week yet to ease restrictions?”
“It’s really too premature right now to be pulling back too much,” said Fauci, who’s come under the public eye since the start of the pandemic. “I’m concerned that we’re still at that level of 70,000 [infections per day], and when people start then pulling back on mitigation methods and mitigation activities, you have the risk, and it is a real risk, of seeing it go back up, and it’s not something I’m imagining. Go back and look at the surges that we’ve had over the past year. It was always at a time when you wanted to pull back.”
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