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The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

Dr. Anthony Fauci: "Something Rather Significant Needed To Be Done"

The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

FOX News Radio

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4.1738 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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This week, Martha is joined by Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases and leading member of the Trump administration's coronavirus taskforce.  Martha and Dr. Fauci discuss criticisms of the models and projections of the spread of the virus, the care that must be given to decisions to reopen parts of the country, the important role masks may play moving forward and the benefit of social distancing over hoping to form herd immunity. Follow Martha on Twitter: @MarthaMacCallum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The Untold Story with Martha McCallum, exclusive interviews with top newsmakers who share their inspiring

0:38.7

stories of perseverance, positivity, and more. Now, here's Martha McCallum.

0:48.5

Americans at home anxiously awaiting word that they can get back to normal after weeks of social distancing.

0:55.8

But the president says getting the country back to work is, quote, the biggest decision of his life.

1:01.1

And he's relying on experts to guide him, including my next guest, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the face of the forefront of this battle.

1:10.4

He joins me now to share his untold story of this

1:13.4

epidemic. Dr. Fauci, great to have you with us. Thank you very much. I know that these have been

1:19.6

very long days and we're glad to have you with us. I'd like to start with the question of these models,

1:25.6

which are now getting a lot of pushback in terms of

1:28.5

their reliability when the numbers have swung 33 percent in just a couple of days. What do you say

1:35.0

to Andy McCarthy who wrote that piece? Well, I mean, there's a certain validity to it. I have

1:40.1

been, and still am and will always be somewhat reserved and skeptical about models because models

1:46.6

are only as good as the assumptions that you put into the model. And those assumptions that start off

1:52.8

when you don't have very much data at all, or the data that you have is uncertain that you put

1:58.4

these assumptions in and you get these wide ranges of calculations of what

2:03.9

might happen, you know, 100,000 to 240,000 deaths. But then as you start to accumulate data,

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