“My advice to young people is — unless you want to be a politician — stay away from the politics and let science and good data guide your policy.”
As winter approaches and the flu season begins, Dr. Anthony Fauci has some timely suggestions for young Americans on how best to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. Follow the science, he said, not the politics.
“ ‘My advice to young people is — unless you want to be a politician — stay away from the politics and let science and good data guide your policy.’ ” After a surge of 70,000 new COVID-19 cases a day in the summer, Fauci said, “It’s now stuck at around 40,000 to 50,000. You can’t enter into the cool months of the fall, and the cold months of the winter with a high community infection baseline.” People will spend more time indoors, he added. “That’s when you have to be particularly careful about the spread of respiratory-born disease.”
He also said that voting in person is just as safe as going to Starbucks, assuming other people wear masks. “I think it’s just as safe to go and get a cup of coffee in a Starbucks in which everyone’s wearing a mask and doing the things they should be doing.” Schedule permitting, he said he may go to his local school in person to cast his vote in the presidential election on Nov. 3.
In the latest survey, 92% of Democrats and Democratic leaners say they usually wear masks in stores and other businesses, compared to 76% of Republicans and GOP leaners. In June, 76% of Democrats said they had usually worn masks in stores and other businesses over the previous month, compared with a little over half of Republicans and GOP leaners .
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