As the United States enters the fall and winter months with coronavirus cases on the rise, people must double down on public health measures, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, adding that shutting down the country is “off the table."
Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said that his calls for people to strictly follow public health measures do not mean that he wants to shut down the country.
“That’s off the table. We're not talking about that,” Fauci said during a Yahoo News Interview. “We're talking about intensifying some public health measures that are really simple and easy to understand and to do it uniformly as a country, instead of in a haphazard way.”
He emphasized five basic public health measures:
- Wearing masks
- Physical distancing
- Avoiding crowds
- Washing hands
- Opting for outdoor settings over indoor settings