“… I think everybody is doing really well.”
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Dr. Fauci tells Hannity that Trump administration’s coronavirus travel ban saved US concern and suffering.
HANNITY: — the quarantine that the president did within three weeks. Do you believe –was the fastest ever, do you believe it likely prevented thousands of Americans from contracting the virus and was a smart thing to do?
FAUCI: Yes, I think there’s no question. Yes, there’s no question that if we had not done that in a timely way, there would have been many more travel-related cases from China. And as you know, the outbreak that we’re having here in the country, these cases originated from travel-related cases that came from China and the then we had the issue in Washington state and what we’re seeing now in other states.
So, coming from outside within was the thing that started it. So, I think doing that saved us a lot of — a lot of concern and a lot of suffering, I think.
HANNITY: But it was unprecedented. You’ve never seen anything like it. I’ve never seen anything like it, right?
FAUCI: Well, no, I have not. The reason is that there’s a lot of skepticism about whether when you do a travel ban, whether or not you’re really going to interfere with any aspect of an outbreak, because you might delay it, but what’s going to happen is that you’ll wind up having a big outbreak anyway. That’s true. When you have multiple different countries at the same time who have outbreaks and you can’t exclude the entire world.
But the unique situation with China back at the end of December, the beginning of January, was that they were the sole source of that at first. And to block them from coming in was unquestionable the right move. Even though it was a controversial move, it was the right move.
HANNITY: No, no, no. I think — now, are we doing everything possible that you would do up to this point?
FAUCI: You know, I believe so. I mean, always, when you have an outbreak, there’s a little bit of the fog of war associated with that. You’re trying to do the right thing, you’re trying to keep up with an evolving situation.
But I think in the context —- of what we’re being challenged with, I think everybody is doing really well.
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