Americans need to “hunker down and get through this fall and winter,” which includes flu season, in order to successfully wait out a vaccine, Dr. Anthony Fauci said in a panel discussion with Harvard Medical School on Thursday.
“It’s not going to be easy. We know every time we lift restrictions, we get a blip. It’s whack-a-mole,” said the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the nation’s top expert on the COVID-19 pandemic. Fauci pointed to marked differences between the US’s efforts to lock down and those of Europe.