

“And I'm talking about, hypertension, obesity, cardiovascular disease, other types of chronic lung disease, diabetes - those are the things that put you at a higher risk.”įauci said there are short-term solutions to address part of the problem.

“Once they do get infected, as a group, if you look at the underlying conditions that lead to a higher likelihood of a bad outcome, those demographic minority groups have a much higher incidence of that,” Fauci added. He said that African-Americans, Latinx, Native Americans and Alaskan Americans tend to have jobs that don’t allow them to work remotely, putting them at greater risk of getting infected. “There are things that we can do about it immediately, but things that are going to take decades for us to correct,” Fauci told Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg during a live chat. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said Thursday. The racial disparities that have opened up during the pandemic, notably higher infection and death rates among minority communities, are a “very disturbing phenomenon that is a reality,” Dr.
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The vaccine is expected to begin later this month a large Phase 3 trial - the final trial stage before regulators consider whether to make the vaccine available.ĬNN's Jacqueline Howard and John Bonifield contributed to this report.ĬNN's Jacqueline Howard and John Bonifield These early results, published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Tuesday, showed that the vaccine worked to trigger an immune response with mild side effects - fatigue, chills, headache, muscle pain, pain at the injection site - becoming the first US vaccine candidate to publish results in a peer-reviewed medical journal Some background: CNN reported this week that a Covid-19 vaccine developed by the biotechnology company Moderna in partnership with the National Institutes of Health has been found to induce immune responses in all of the volunteers who received it in a Phase 1 study. "But like I said, after about a day those tapered away and aside from that brief episode, I've really had no issues whatsoever." "They lasted about a day, and those were things like a high fever over 103, fatigue, muscle ache, nausea, things like that. I ended up going to urgent care as this was happening so that the doctors could keep an eye on me and run some tests," Haydon said. Anthony Fauci, has warned that the country has to control the pandemic in order to safely get children back in school this fall. The nation’s top infectious disease expert, Dr.

In recent weeks, Trump has repeatedly called for schools to reopen, even as cases surged across parts of the country, and has slammed the CDC’s existing guidelines. Some context: The CDC said last week it was releasing new documents on school reopening after US President Donald Trump complained that the agency’s current guidance is “very tough” and “expensive.” The spokesperson said he doesn’t have a “clear picture at this point” on when the agency might release the documents but indicated the information would “likely” be available by the end of the month. The CDC was expected to release the information by the end of this week, but the spokesperson said, “They're not ready to come out this week.” The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is delaying the release of new reference documents on safely reopening schools, a spokesperson confirmed to CNN.
