Fauci: Reopening U.S. Could Be Dependent On Mass Antibody Testing | Deadline | MSNBC

White House coronavirus task force member Dr. Anthony Fauci told MSNBC’s Brian Williams that mass antibody testing could be a key component to reopening the U.S. This method would provide data to determine how many people would likely be protected from COVID-19. Aired on 4/10/2020.
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    1. @ Fernando Castillo 
      “…let’s not trust the government, until we need them to save us.”

      No government is a guarantee of safety. Just saying.

      “That’s also taxpayer money – we’ve paid into it.”

      Mostly borrowed money… for which kids and grandkids will pay (search for: “Stossel debt” and “Peter Schiff attend up Goldman”). Whatever bailouts including (search for: Wall Bailout 2.0).
      That’s one of ways how governments steal future generations’ assets.
      Search also for: when republicans advocate socialistic policies.

    2. What if somebody wouldn’t want to *consent* to any new vaccine? Or would prefer a drug?
      If somebody wants to be safe from diseases then it’s his/hers choice to take a vaccine/drug… is what I’m saying.

    1. @Kent Horvath It’s NOT the flu dumbo. The US has now around one million tests available for covid. That is for 0.3% of the population.

    2. @John Van Raak the US has performed over 2.5 million tests…there r 1 million tests waiting to be used because they cant be processed that fast yet

  1. I want to be tested for the antibodies, since I wasn’t able to be tested for the virus when I was sick with a respiratory infection. There wasn’t enough test kits at the time.

    1. Does anyone know if delirium
      Is a symptom because my moms boyfriend was severely
      Sick at the begining of March

    2. turkey fluff That is a side effect of a high fever. Any high fever could cause a person to become delirious.

    3. @rockstarofredondo i was just wondering because short of a sore throat he had most of the symptoms of the virus

  2. I’ll bet if they tested everyone for antibodies, you’d have 100 million positive results in USA alone.

    1. @Steven Tucker Yes, pneumonia is a bacterial infection and can be a secondary infection to a viral infection. But the drugs that we use for bacterial infections would do nothing to treat the viral infection. The Viral Infection is what is causing our body to over react and in turn doing the most of the damage to our bodies.

    2. vimzibaiegh You could be right but the point is that without adequate levels of testing you can tell where you are.

    3. @Steven Tucker Bacteria’s are living organisms and can reproduce on their own where as a Virus is somewhere between a living and non-living organism in that it needs a host cell in which to replicate.

    4. A t o m i Z e J very interesting. You should go to your country date center and check how many Wuhan people been to your country, and trace these people. Your country is A, which is root of the virus.

  3. President can’t give a lock down command, what makes him think he can issue a back to work command?

    1. @Nonnof Yobiznes Good thinking. We probably won’t need that long though. I heard Trump was now working on a final solution. Has something to do with injecting disinfectant into the lungs, rendering them virus free within a minute. Sounds promising to me… Real promising.

    1. @cynthia curley Yeah. Cought it fairly early, acted quickly. When you had symptoms you stayed home and somebody came taking your sample. hardly any deaths.

  4. Reopening U.S. Could Be Dependent On Mass Antibody, says “Gradually” not “Back with a Bang”.

  5. Just remember people especially the ones who’ve lost their jobs, you would have a job right now if Trump took the serious from the very beginning

    1. jim Moore, Nonsense! If Trump had taken steps even earlier, vermin like you would have accused him or racism and overreacting. The job losses would have occurred anyway and you liberal s#itstains would still have blamed Trump.

    2. Dumb, people really needed to be told by someone else to be careful, stay clean and quit picking g you nose? Idiots

    3. Trump did take it seriously for it was Nancy and the rest of the Democratic Party that was calling it a hoax n saying Trump was being racist for banding travel to and from China

    1. I think he’s ruining his integrity for trump. He’s trying to talk in circles like trump instead of clear and direct like he was in the beginning of all this.
      It’s a shame cuz I really respected him.

    2. Chi You are correct! The man mentioned that his family is being targeted because of him telling the truth. So I imagine he’s backing off a bit by refraining from speaking to the world as he did in the beginning. Still a shame, if you ask me, because I too respect him!

  6. The curve doesn’t stop people from dying it stops the stress on overwhelmed health system to keep up with those needing a bed.

    1. @rockstarofredondo From what I understand this all has to do with money.
      Hospitals, clinics, etc. are losing money because they’re treating covid-19 instead of the expensive elective surgeries, cancer treatments, cosmetics, etc. that bring in the big bucks. _Non-essential_ health related fields are also being affected, and losing money, etc. e.g., dentists, orthoptists, laser surgeries, cosmetic surgeons, podiatrists, (and all the associated fields I can’t even think of) so that mean all these health care professionals, their nurses, techs, aids, suppliers, etc and everything basically not covid-19 related are facing massive budget cuts.
      Here’s one article that explains the massive budget cuts that are being presented to hospitals, clinics and other health related fields.
      https://www.businessinsider.com/economic-turmoil-from-coronavirus-pandemic-hits-doctors-nurses-2020-3

    2. milomilo55 No one is losing money over “treating covid patients”🙄. Each hospital gets $13,000 for each covid diagnosis and $39,000 to put them on vents. I have multiple relatives and know tons of others who work in healthcare and what they will do is diagnose someone with corona with no test and no proof, and put people on vents that don’t need them. It’s called padding the bill. The exaggerated numbers have already been debunked and the models were off by hundreds of percents. There is no reasonable excuse that people aren’t back to work now that it has come out that this has been all over blown. Hospitals should be returning to their usual functions. You are swallowing propaganda, period. It’s embarrassing how few of you can think for yourselves.

    3. @rockstarofredondo “The exaggerated numbers have already been debunked and the models were off by hundreds of percents.” Wow.
      What exaggerated numbers? Are you talking about the deaths or confirmed covid-19 cases the number of people infected or what?
      Models are just educated guestimates, or predications about the future, based on what’s known and happening at the time. Of course they’ll change since nobody can accurately predict the future and/or how much changes in behaviors , e.g. social distancing, stay-at-home measures, limiting social gatherings, etc, will affect those predictions. If only a few people or only one city changes their behavior the predictions won’t change much but if large numbers of people and/or multiple states have their populations change, then the effects will be much greater.
      The fact that you don’t understand what a model is is your problem. You can’t blame others for your ignorance.

      So a hospital gets $13k, and for a small fraction, an additional $39k for each covid-19 patient. How does that compare money-wise to all of the transplants that are now being postponed, e.g. heart transplant $1,382k, liver transplant $812k, bone marrow transplants $892k, or all the other surgeries and procedures that are currently being postponed, e.g. open heart surgery $324k, angiolplasty (to open blocked blood vessels) $32k, etc.
      Health is a very expensive business in the US those $13k costs are far cheaper than most of procedures that would normally be performed nor does it make up for all of the other non-essential health procedures (that I listed in part) that are also being postponed with no alternative, e.g. covid-19 testing, to take their place and provide some income.
      Sorry but you sound really young and/or inexperienced and/or uneducated. Many of these things are common sense, or would be if you kept yourself informed.

    1. @David Giroux already have havent been exposed or had it they are not gonna assault me with a needle when its completely unncessary

    2. Adam, why the fuss about it? It’s just like getting your blood sugar level checked. Are you scared of needles? You do not have to take the antibody test. But I’m first in line for it, for we felt a bit sick, also on the chest, for some days and I’d like to know if that was ‘it’. So I can return to shaking hands with customers without fear of infecting them or myself.

  7. Imagine trying to inform the public and save lives when the government you work for is doing its damnedest to downplay and deceive.

    1. NO CONFIDENCE IN WORDS FROM LIAR TRUMP ADMINISTRATION OR FOX SHOW BIZZ WANNA BE NEWS WHEN THEY BOTH DOWN PLAYED CORID19 AS A DEMOCRATIC HOAX.
      ALL I CAN SAY IS DON’T HIDE BEHIND CLOSED DOORS NOW COME OUT AN PLAY WITH THE REST OF US WORKING AMERICANS.

    2. Down play?
      You mean the dem media has blown it out of control. Nothing to downplay.
      How many so called Coronavirus deaths were actually caused by Coronavirus & not the condition they already had?
      We won’t ever know because they won’t do autopsies on anybody who had Coronavirus.
      Yet if you had the flu and a pre existing condition and die in the hospital, they list your underlying condition as the cause of death.That means there are less Coronavirus deaths than claimed, and more flu deaths than they claim.

  8. People are getting tired of being held hostage in their own homes. Sooner or later people will begin to snap. I do believe this is helping a great deal, but good luck with keeping people at home for another month. See how that works out.

  9. “This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%)”

    ~ Dr. Anthony Fauci – New England Journal of Medicine March 26, 2020

    1. wrong, the average influenza mortality is 0.0059%, only for old people climbs to 0.1%, average covid-19’s mortality was 3.4% but has been increasing, not lowering, in USA has been killing young people

    2. @jorge pearl So why did he publish this then say something else on television? Maybe we should ask Bill Gates

    3. @Know Thanks if someone (an expert) tells you that this is something like flu, you will no avoid getting infected, if government and experts had said the truth, people would had protected and few would have died, from China information this has 576 times more mortality than flu, so this was not China, these were western governments that cheated their people

    1. I hope so. Fauci is smart and highly educated ..but he’s a vaccine, big pharma kind of doctor… He’s probably the one that got Bill Gates into his vaccine frenzy.. Dr. Fauci would favor mandatory vaccines and chip implants… Seasonal flu kills 291,000 to 646,000 people worldwide each year. And now this Dr. Fauci health adviser has us under police lock down for a virus that has killed 135,227 people world wide.

  10. Please do some real “Research” and background on Dr. Fauci. Look up his past and the associates he is connected to. Once you gain some real knowledge about this Man, you will begin to understand his real agenda..

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