Coronavirus Update with Anthony Fauci, MD – March 6, 2020

Coronavirus testing, mortality, vaccine development, containment vs mitigation, and more. Click show more for a complete list of topics discussed in this video. Anthony Fauci discusses the latest developments in the global spread of COVID-19 and the SARS-CoV-2 virus with JAMA Editor Howard Bauchner. #JAMALive #Covid_19 #SARSCoV2 #coronavirus

0:00 Introduction

01:15 What's the difference between COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2?

01:58 What's the status and accuracy of diagnostic testing in the US?

05:31 What's the case-fatality rate for the virus?

08:03 Scientific advances and vaccine development

13:41 Are current clinical trials providing a picture of treatments?

15:24 Risk communication: how do we present information so there's faith that it's accurate?

16:26 Risk groups (children, the elderly, pregnant women)

19:10 Containment vs mitigation vs quarantine vs isolation

23:52 Protecting the elderly and nursing home resident

26:35 Public health prospects in Latin America, Africa

27:52 Will coronavirus wane in warmer months like influenza?

29:18 Why is anxiety so high about this disease?

31:03 Does the US have capacity to care for COVID19 infection?

32:23 What is your daily schedule like?

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[beejohnson]

Senior independent living also being impacted because seniors have more visits to hospitals for specialized health care. They’re bringing the virus back to their apartment communities.

[thinkmackay]

Dr Fauci, per your puzzle about why children are not getting hurt by this CoVid 19, is it possible that they have a little sac of antibodies called thymus (I don't even know if my spelling is correct)? About 9 years ago, my son was doing immunology research in the NIH on this thymus thing, he told me that it is a tiny sac of antibodies children and young mice (and maybe other animals too? He didn't say.) have in common, that it gradually disappears approaching adulthood.

[dashcamvideos]

They have 2 more nursing homes affected now. It was in the New York Times. King County WA is a mess.

[irkadeng]

It will be great if you will add subtitles, so that we can understand you guys much better.
Yhank you very much for the update ❤

[isisdave]

How about a description of the typical course of the disease? How bad, how high the fever, how long does it last, does it seem to wane and then come back, how long till it's over, etc? At what point should a patient seek help? It's lack of all kinds of information that causes mass public anxiety.

[jeffreypick]

If you don't have health insurance, or limited health insurance, will tthe test be free ? It will be here in the UK, where we have universal health care. If not, how much will the test cost ? Who will pay for any treatment required, if you get it, but not in a life threatening form ??

[bluewaters]

Dr. Fauci's interviews are my favorite. He is calm and smart. I like that he does not try to hide facts even if they may be tough to hear for many people.

[barbarahenninger]

This is a very uninformative talk. I think he's saying we're on our own and don't expect much from the gov't.

[TH-sdhv]

Please take good care of yourself. Your honesty really helps.

[tanvision]

Let us pray that coronavirus will end till the end of the month of March

[rodwallace]

All for nothing without robust testing, early detection, and good nursing care.
But that ship has sailed.

[sandyb]

Buy more ECMO Train more healthcare staff on intensive care using ECMO. Do it now. Buy more Oxygen concentrators. Don't wait. They are proving very useful for treatment of cardiovascular disease events as well.

[ArcaneBear]

These are so good! YOu guys deserve more views, to bad so much of the channel has scary graphic stuff no one wants to see haha- this content is so valuable

[Rosie-kqpj]

They keep talking about the case fatality rate. They want to lump everyone from 0 to 100 years old that had any form of it, all the way from non symptomatic to almost dead, Add them all together, then divide that by
those who died and you might get a nice low number like .1% that the public can digest and accept easier. Well your never going to have the exact number of all the people who get it and never go to Dr., Or get a test. So how about we just track those people who are between 60 & 100 that end up catching it and going to the Dr. Or get tested positive and divide the death rate by that number. So is it 20, 40, 50 or 80% of older folks that get it die? Since very few young people die.
The older folks would like to know that number. And by the way, when the few ICU beds are all taken, and we are putting people in stadiums and sending them home to die...the % rate goes even higher!

[biomanization]

There should be a Congressional investigation over why the United States, with all its talent and largess, still doesn’t have a test available in every community

[MK-ptzt]

U.S coronavirus death numbers increases with more testings. These two numbers should not coincide. Someone need to look at this because I think the testing strategy and testing sites are amplifying the contagion. When you encourage people with symptoms to come out for testings, you are maximizing their contacts with the virus. 9 out of 10 people with symptoms do not have the virus but they do have weak immune systems due to other causes. Note that thia is a very contagious virus and we do not know all the ways that it spread from person to person. I believe this was exactly what happened to Italy, the U.S need to look at their data and stop encouraging people with symptoms to come out for testings. You are amplifying the contagion. Do randomized testing only, keep people in homes and only encourage those needing urgent care to come out.

[ThatGirl-tgwd]

can you balance this with interviews from Institute of Virology and Epidemiology experts as well? Remdesivir is a hopeful therapy, thanks for having Tony confirm what has been expected to be a direction in which to go in considering drug therapy

[underwun]

While we know they're undetected infections, are there undetected deaths?

[yveeriksson]

"The elderly" is a very varied group. Anthony Fauci is actually 79 years old, but still going strong. He talks about the elderly as an other group than himself.

[wolfthorn]

To determine case fatality rate ie CFR, you need to look at cases of illness that had an outcome. That means cases where the patient either got well or died.
So let's look at China's numbers.
58, 000 completed cases
3000 deaths
55000 recovered
CFR = 5%

Now let's look at South Korea
179 completed cases
44 deaths
135 recovered
CFR = 25%

Now let's look at Italy
720 completed cases
197 deaths
523 recovered
CFR = 27%

Now let's look at Iran
1037 completed cases
124 deaths
913 recovered
CFR = 12%

We can assume that maybe half of the people getting this disease won't got to the
hospital. So from this data my best guess is between 5% to 8% CFR.