"With the travel, the global travel, every single day, there's no chance we're going to be virus-free," Fauci told NBC Sports' Peter King.
Dr. Anthony Fauci said in an interview with the NBC Sports football writer and columnist Peter King on Saturday that there was"virtually no chance" that the novel coronavirus, which causes the disease COVID-19, will be eradicated.
"So, unlike the virus SARS, back in 2002, when we had an outbreak of about 8,000 people and close to 800 deaths, and then the virus just essentially petered out by good public-health measures by the simple reason that it wasn't efficiently or effectively transmitted from one person to another," Fauci said.
Fauci told NBC that even if the US were to get its case numbers under control and adopt effective mitigation measures, it would be particularly difficult to stop the virus altogether once the world starts to resume international travel.
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