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he's the director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases at the national institute of health. dr. fauci, thank you so much for joining us. again, given what yu're observed, when do you think president trump will be out of the woo? >> well, right now, he looks good and, according to his report, he feels good. it is entirely conceivable tha he is already well on his way to being out of the woods. the onthing that his physicians are well aware of and anyone who takes care of covid 19 patients are aware of is that this is a strange of a virus because you can feel good for a few days in a row, and then you could have a really, you know, unexpected downturn where your condition i hope that doesn't happen. it's unlikely it will, but it s haened in the past to people, which is the reason why his physicians are are of that and are making sure they're monitoring it, even though he's out, in a sense, in the white he still needs to be carefulng, that he doesn't relapse. so we're hoping he doesn't. i don't think he will, but it's conceible at he might. >> woodruff: do you know when his last covid negative test was? and is

this in advance for our broadcast we can think of no better person with whom to begin a series of dialogues then doctor b fauci of the national institute of allergy and infectious disease. and those around the world he. has emerged as a resource of reason and scientific authority and humanity and for for decades doctor fauci as a public servant and during the early years of the aids crisis doctor fauci was among the first 1 scientist that only to launch himself into research but with advanced treatment in the following decade the presidents of both parties for evil a and was sound science and now in the covid era delivering the best information to policymakers and the public and in 2005 essay he revealed those three guiding principles of his life to strive for excellence so we are profoundly grateful following all three of these principles throughout his career our world is better for and healthier for you please join me to welcome doctor fauci to johns hopkins university. >> thank you very much it is a pleasure to be here with you. i'm looking forward to our discussion is extraordinary important topic that we are dealing with this is a historic pandemic the likes we h

national security staff from 2010-2013. also serving as clinical research director for the u.s. army medical research institute for infectious diseases from 2007-2009. so he comes to his current position as the vaccine development lead for operation warp speed with quite a depth of experience in this area. dr. hepburn, thank you so much for being with us. >> it is just a privilege to be here and certainly looking forward to answering the questions, and we will get there soon. i want to limit my comments actually to the probably the most important question, at least the question i i receive most often, whether it's at my daughter texting me from college or all of these different public meetings that we've had and communications over the last six months or so. and the simple question is how can you achieve the impossible? how can you take a vaccine development process that typically can take five years, eight years, ten years and truncate that into the timelines of operation warp speed? i want to basically put my answer into four categories and hopefully i can convince you that, number one, we made incredible progress so far, but that

fauci, director of the national institutes of allergy any and infectious diseases and america's leading infectious disease experts. we spoke about the state of the pandemic the hopes forey, welcome back to "the daily social distancing show. >> thank you. very nice to be with you. thank you for having me. >> trevor: before i ask you about us, i'm going to try as we do in african culture and ask you about you. i know that you had surgery on your vocal chords, something i'm very sensitive to because i, too, had polyps and had to get them surgically removed. how are you and your voice? >> i'm actually fine, trevor. thank you for asking. i should have had this done literally months ago. i had kind of strained my voice. i had actually an upper respiratory infection and had a little tracheitis. usually you rest and it goes away, but things exploded with covid 19. i was 17, 18 hours a day talking to the point where i just strained and strained and strained it. i realized my voice was gravelly and i couldt not get it back to normal. the surgery was successful, they removed a benign polyp and now this is my regular voice. instead of sounding like vito coreleone from the godfath

researcher for a few years before then, fundamentally a chief of a laboratory at the nih, doing clinical research on hiv. when i became the director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases, it became so clear to me that there were so many problems throughout the world that could be addressed both by science, science application, and good public health measures. i really became totally committed to that. when you say what drives me, what is the driving force, it is the realization, not only of the enormity of the problem that the fact we can do something about it. it is not an unsolvable series of problems. it is something we can do something about. the second part of your question, you mentioned the role of government. government, at its best, can be responsible for things that individual, private sector components would not be willing to take up. for example, in the united states, and it is not just confined to the united states, we have the realization that there are the need to develop interventions in the form of vaccines and therapeutics for diseases that may not be the kind of commercially viable interventions, but the world needs them. we have seen that with many

for presidents from both parties, six presidents in all. he has overseen response to hiv, aids, ebola, zika and tuberculosis. he has run national institute of allergy and infectious diseaseswhen ronald reagan was president, and republicans and democrats alike with the exception of trump love the guy. >> i think dr. fauci, probably never heard of him, he is a very fine research, top doctor at national institute of health, working hard, doing something about research on this disease of aids. >> three decades ago, a mysterious playing took lives around the world. before the malady had a name, it had a fierce opponent in dr. anthony fauci for determined and aggressive efforts to help others live longer and healthier lifs. proud to give the presidential medal of freedom to dr. anthony fauci. >> thank you to dr. tony fauci, nancy sullivan, incredible scientists at nih who work long days, late nights, to develop a vaccine. all of you represent what is best about america and what's possible when we lead. >> anthony fauci doesn't serve a party, he serves the nation's health. president trump has repeatedly demonstrated that he serves himself at the expense of the nation's health, s

for fluzone high-dose quadrivalent by name. >>> welcome back. i'm joined now by dr. anthony fauci, of course the director of the national institute of infectious diseases. dr.auci, nice to see you. let me start with the grim record we just set over the last 24 hours, most cases in 24 hours yet it's 77,000. what seems different this time, dr. fauci, is that there seems to be a lack of collective urgency about this latest peak. where does this end? are we going to 100,000? are we -- i mean, it feels like we are on this trajectory and have no way off of it right now. where are we headed, sir? >> chuck, i'm concerned about it and the reason i'm concerned is that as you mentioned our baseline of community infections that you see every day, you know, they've been anywhere from 20,000 and they went up to 65,000, 70,000 and now they're back up to the record you spoke about yesterday at over 70,000. that is a precarious place to be for a couple of reasons. because if you look at the map of the united states and several of the states right now for a number of reasons that we could discuss are having what we call- call upticks in case positivities which are leading in

for a few years before that. fundamentally the chief of a laboratory at the nih doing clinical invasive research and hiv. i became the director of the nance and trent national institute of allergies and infectious diseases i was exposed to the broad aspects of global health were intertwined with hiv. it was so clear to me there so many, many problems throughout the world that could be addressed both by science, science application, and good public health measures. and i really became totally committed to that. seven you say what drives me, what is the driving force? it is the realization, not only of the and norman c of the problem, but of the fact we can do something about it. it is not an unsolvable problem of series of problems. it's something we can do somethingns about. and the second part of your question, you mentioned the role of government in that, both government atab its best can be responsible for things that individual private sector components would not be willing to take up. so for example, in the united states, such as confined to the united states, we have the realization that there are the need to develop interventions in the form of vaccines and therapeuticscs for diseases that may no

for biologics said he will resign his position if the fda were to greenlight an unproven coronavirus vaccine. in addition, the director of [inaudible] doctor francis collins and director of national institute of allergy and infectious diseasesdoctor anthony fauci has said they will only back a vaccine that has science behind it. further, nondrug committees have already pledged and they will not submit vaccine candidates for fdada review until their safety and efficacy is shown in large clinical trials. in addition, each off the four companies now in phase three clinical trials protocols. vaccine distribution to independent committees will provide guidance. of national committee science and engineering on medicine and cdc advisory committee on immunization practices. i urge each of us to put alex aside and i know we are a few weeks from elections but put it aside to deliver one unified life-saving message that americans can trust the fda's vaccine approval process. they will be driven by the science and will result in science -based decisions. lastly, the reminder for everybody to get your flu shot that has been this year will be more important than ever of and i've already received my flu welcome them to this hearing and i

national institute of allergic and infectious diseases that they will only back a vaccine that is science behind it. nine drug companies have already pledged they will not submit vaccine candidates for fda review until their safety and efficacy is shown in large clinical trials. in addition, each of the four companies now in phase three have published trial particles. , twoaccine distribution independent committees will provide guidance. the national academy of science engineering and medicine and cdc advisory committee on immunization practices. i urge each of us to put politics aside. i know what are a few weeks from election, but put politics aside in order to deliver one unified thatsaving message americans can trust the fda vaccine approval process. they will be driven by the science and will result in science based decisions. lastly, a reminder for everybody to get your flu shot this year will be more important than ever. i look forward to the testimony from these esteemed witnesses and welcome them to this hearing and i yelled back. shotank you i got my flu too and i echo what you said. everybody should get their flu shot. we will now recognize the chairman of the subcommitte