NIAID Director and Presidential Coronavirus Task Force Advisor Anthony Fauci, MD discusses recent developments in the global COVID-19 pandemic with JAMA Editor Howard Bauchner. Originally streamed on April 8, 2020.
Topics discussed in this interview:
0:28 What has your day to day schedule been like these past 2 months?
1:25 When President Trump looks at scientific information differently than scientists and medical experts, how do process that?
3:20 The pandemic is affecting U.S. cities very differently. In the high intensity cities like New York, Detroit and Boston, how do you think those cities are doing?
7:00 Do you think every metropolitan area is going to go from linear to exponential?
8:46 Asymptomatic spread and masks
11:55 Any results for new information from randomized clinical trials (RCTs)?
13:57 Pathogenesis of COVID-19
15:50 Vaccines – we have different candidates with different approaches
18:12 Convalescent plasma therapy
19:21 Serologic surveillance
20:45 Antibody tests
21:35 Immunity after being infected
23:10 Any evidence of mutation?
23:31 How do we end social distancing and return to normal?
26:03 How do you contrast the COVID-19 pandemic with HIV/AIDs?
28:28 What are the keys to the next 3-5 months?
31:03 Any sense of timing for a vaccine?
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