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TODD: “With the combination of the new strain out there that may be and we’re still learning more and I know you don’t have full answers to this, either, but it may essentially, mean that a contagious person infects five people instead of two or something like that. Are we looking at a campaign when president elect Biden becomes president, are we going to need to do another 15, 30 days stop the spread, maybe do a partial lockdown between that issue and obviously, what’s happening now, and it looks like hospitals, they were overwhelmed in November, Dr. Fauci, what will happen at the end of the January?”
FAUCI: “Yeah. Well, I hope we don’t have to do the lockdown because we all know, chuck, how much Covid-19 fatigue there is of people just really being worn down with this, but we certainly need to enhance and make more uniform our publhealth measured. President elect Biden has called for 100 days of everybody wearing a mask uniformly throughout the country. That’s really a good start. The idea about locking down is something that you might have to do but you want to avoid. In certain areas of the country, such California, which is really being stressed with regard to the hospital beds and personnel who are really getting exhausted with the number of cases coming in, you may have to have and they already have decided on some form of lockdown in specific areas of the state or specific regions of the country. So that’s not out of the question. We hope we don’t have to do it country-wide because we feel if —”