Dr. Anthony Fauci tests positive for COVID

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Source: ABC

Dr. Anthony Fauci, a senior adviser to the president on the pandemic, has tested positive for COVID-19.

Fauci hasn't had recent close contact with President Joe Biden or other senior officials, according to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Fauci, who has mild symptoms, tested positive via a rapid antigen test, according to the NIAID.

He's fully vaccinated and received two boosters, the NIAID said in a statement.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/dr-anthony-fauci-tests-positive-covid/story?id=85416368

[nycbos]

1. I have been fortunate to not to have tested positive.

But at this point I am almost resigned to the fact that I probably will get it at some point despite the fact that I have been cautious.

[LymphocyteLover]

8. same here

[Skittles]

14. yup

thanks to all the fucking selfish assholes who thought a big get-together was more important than public health

[AngryOldDem]

30. Same.

I’ve been fighting what seems like allergy symptoms. Thinking about home testing.

We’re all going to get it at some point. It will become the new flu.

[nycbos]

31. I really miss not worrying about the sniffles

[BumRushDaShow]

2. Given he is a public figure and is out and about due to his position

I'm surprised that he has been able to hold out this long... but then Omicron is so much more transmissible.

[Ms. Toad]

16. He has been masking -

(even while making public statements contrary to his own actions) and making smart decisions about risk - like skipping the correspondent's dinner.

Unfortunately, he chose to be unmasked at an event on 6/11.

It only takes one slip-up.

On June 11, Fauci went to the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, where the college renamed the science center the Anthony S. Fauci Integrated Science Complex. Fauci was seen with and without a mask in photos.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/dr-anthony-fauci-tests-positive-covid/story?id=85416368

[BumRushDaShow]

21. Yup.

Sigh...

I know they have been giving speeches at podiums and remarks at hearings/panels, etc., maskless, and I expect as long as there is some distance between people, then that would be a little mitigation. But at a college? Seems all bets are off.

And here you have it and I need say no more -

[pstokely]

22. was he at a family event?

people are more lax at those

[Ms. Toad]

27. Nope.

A public event.

(And you're just as likely to contract COVID at a family even as anywhere else.)

[mahina]

24. Pretty hard to pass on that one

And I do wish he’d worn a mask but I’m not criticizing the man. God love him. I do.

[milestogo]

3. I hope he has a mild case and gets well soon.

[orleans]

4. just heard this on a newsbreak on wcpt (chicago's progressive radio station)

thought: oh no!
he's 81
hope he gets thru this okay.

[LymphocyteLover]

9. He's in good shape. Pelosi is 80 and had it and recovered fine. I'm sure he will have the best care

possible.

[Cha]

5. Heal Well, Dr Fauci!

💙💛

[IronLionZion]

6. He's the most careful person there is

so we're all going to get it sooner or later. Hoping it stays mild for him and he has a speedy recovery.

[Ms. Toad]

17. He was unmasked at an event on 6/11.

So, while he has generally been making smart decisions, he isn't the most careful person there is. Many are still universally masking.

[pstokely]

23. even outdoors alone

but isn't that mostly theater

[Ms. Toad]

28. Masking? No.

Handwashing/foodwashing is mostly theater as to COVID, since COVID largely does not past by fomites.

Masking is incredibly effective. There were just too many lies/misinformation perpetuated in the beginning, so now people who don't want to mask use those lies to justify being careless. Aside from formal studies, go look at the downturn in new COVID cases in areas 2 .)weeks after masks were made mandatory. (There are also studies confirming it - but watching the curve is pretty convincing.)

[Bayard]

7. Rethugs will love it

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. I will continue to wear my mask

[Skittles]

15. yes

that the sentiment of all non-selfish assholes

[MichMan]

11. Hope for the sake of others that he exposed, that he was wearing a mask.

[Ms. Toad]

18. He apparently wasn't on 6/11. n/t

[TomSlick]

12. I just scheduled my second booster.

It may not fully protect me but it's all I can do. Maybe it will at least keep my symptoms minor when I have the apparently inevitable infection.

[Ms. Toad]

19. It's not all you can do -

you can continue to mask.

[TomSlick]

26. Also doing that.

I think what Dr. Fauci's infection shows us, infection is very likely no matter how careful we are.

The hope is that being fully vaccinated and masked will prevent serious symptoms.

[electric_blue68]

13. To a continued mild case, and a Full Recovery, Dr Fauci!

[Rhiannon12866]

20. Yikes! Read this elsewhere and I knew it would be on DU. I sure hope he recovers soon...

[Farmer-Rick]

25. I really think it's this 5 day quarantine rule

The CDC established that is causing this new surge of COVID. Fauci couldn't have caught it by not wearing his mask, if someone infected wasn't there to spread it.

I know of several people who after 5 days of quarantine, went back to work pushed by their employers. And sure enough when they retested 3 to 5 days after they had tested negative, they were positive again or still? So they were out and about unknowingly spreading it to all their customers for a week.

I'm not going to get it. I'm masking, double masking sometimes. I'm doing curbside pick up only and scheduled for another booster the end of the month. I only do outside events.

I don't care that most people who catch it go around saying, "oh, everyone is going to catch it eventually." That is just rationalization for their carelessness, unwillingness to take precautions, or our broken public health care system.

And yeah there are times I wear a mask outside alone ...but that's because I'm cleaning the chicken coop, sheep pen or spray painting. And anti-maskers never complained about wearing masks in those situations. And it also would only take one time of not washing my hands or wearing a mask to catch histoplasmosis, salmonella and campylobacter from animal feces. So masks are like second nature to me.

[Initech]

29. Fox News right on cue:

Link to tweet

I just want a mask with some duct tape around Tucker's mouth.

[Bengus81]

32. Unlike a shit load of Republicans he won't be dying from it and that's the POINT

He's smart enough to get vaxxed four times over for a virus that's easy to catch.