Direct from the NIH: Dr. Anthony Fauci on the Coronavirus - what we face and what we can do

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

Bobi NYC

Comedy, Society & Culture, Science

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🗓️ 6 March 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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In this special episode of Clear+Vivid, Dr. Anthony Fauci talks with Alan Alda from the campus of the National Institutes of Health. Recorded on March 5, 2020, Dr. Fauci explains your risk right now of getting infected from the Coronavirus. He explains how he balances providing correct information to the public with the need not to cause panic — especially as the data changes day by day. He reports that public health professionals and researchers are sharing data about the Coronavirus worldwide, and discusses the progress being made on both a vaccine and a treatment for the illness caused by the virus. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid

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0:00.0	I'm Alan Alder and this is Clear In Vivid, conversations about connecting and communicating.
0:13.9	When you talk about risk of an individual, if they did get infected, it's important.
0:21.3	The data we're getting is that about 80% or more of the people who actually do get infected
0:28.6	are doing very well without any medical intervention.
0:33.4	What we are learning that about 15% or 20% of the people who come to the attention of
0:42.6	the medical community are going to get seriously ill and they would require hospitalization,
0:49.6	oxygen, perhaps even intubation and intensive care.
0:54.1	So therefore, what it tells us, we've got to protect the vulnerable.
0:59.6	In this Clear In Vivid special, I talk with Dr. Anthony Fauci.
1:04.1	He's the longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the
1:08.6	National Institutes of Health.
1:11.6	We recorded our conversation on March 5, 2020.
1:15.4	Dr. Fauci spoke with me from the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland.
1:20.2	We talked about the novel coronavirus.
1:23.1	What we face and what we can do.
1:26.3	This is so great you could come in and talk with us today because you're the one person
1:29.9	in the world that I think I'm getting the straightest info from.
1:33.7	So thanks so much Dr. Fauci.
1:36.1	It's good to be with you, Alan.
1:37.5	The thing is, you have to walk the fine line.
1:40.6	It seems to me to give us the best information you can without panicking us.
1:47.2	Am I right about that?
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