THEn Friday night, Stephen Colbert of the late show he finally managed to realize a dream he had for a year: to meet in the program Dr. Anthony Fauci, the greatest expert in infectious diseases in the country (practically, of course).
“I wanted to have you for a year. We tried to have you every week for a year. I could never take it from you, “said Colbert. “Around January 20, your program really opened. What has changed? ”
“All!” exclaimed Dr. Fauci.
Yes, while former President Trump is on vacation in Mar-a-Lago and trying to take more than his fair share of credit for the rapid production of several COVID-19 vaccines, President Biden has taken what Dr. Fauci has characterized as “a -cort court to get more vaccines available.” About 2 million people have been vaccinated a day, and the process has gone so well, Biden says, by May 1, all adults in the United States will be eligible for COVID-19 vaccines.
Dr. Fauci mainly explained this to the point of improving coordination between federal and state governments under President Biden.
“In every aspect of the approach, Stephen, is that before, earlier in the previous administration, a lot of discretion, a lot of authority, a lot of decision-making was left to the states themselves … but what we have now more it is a cooperation, collaboration and a synergy between the federal government and the states to do things “, explained Dr. Fauci. “I’ve always felt, over the previous year, that there should have been more interactions in terms of synergy.”
Colbert continued to ask Dr. Fauci when things would return to normal, and he replied that we could begin to see small audiences taking various forms of entertainment until the fall. But for now, the director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has urged Americans to continue wearing a mask and distance themselves socially until the number of infections drops – even if you have already been vaccinated.
“At this time, even if the cases fall in a very sharp decline, in the last two weeks began to register a little plateau and, if the plateaus, rises to an unacceptably high level – about 50-60,000 of new infections every day “, said Dr. Fauci. “And every time I saw a plateau at that level, there was always the risk of a new increase. What we not all I want to do is get another raise. We want to keep going down. ”