A senior advisor who worked with both US administrations during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr.r Anthony Fauci admitted it was a mistake to close schools for a year because of the virus.
“Keeping (confinement in schools) for a year was not a good idea,” said the Dr Fauci on the show CBS Mornings Tuesday morning.
The doctor nevertheless insisted that the initial closure of schools was a good solution to prevent the spread of the virus, according to extracts reported by the New York Post.
“When we had to close everything for 15 days to flatten the (transmission) curve, we were in a tsunami of cases,” he recalled in an interview.
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“The problem is: closing everything immediately – and we didn’t close everything – but basically establishing social distancing, and also (closing) the schools was the right thing to do, but the duration of maintaining these measures was the problem,” said the Dr Fauci.
“If you go back and watch (me) on YouTube, I kept saying, ‘Close the bars, open the schools,’” he said. “Open schools as quickly and safely as possible.”
The man who was for 38 years one of the most renowned infectious disease experts in the public service in the United States gave an interview to the American channel following the publication of his memoir: On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service (On call: the journey of a doctor serving the public).
He recounts the emotional moments that took place during the years of the pandemic and, among other things, when specialists informed him that a vaccine had been developed to limit the effects of COVID-19. A discovery that the doctor could not have expected so soon.
“It’s historic what has been accomplished,” he told the CBS host. “In 11 months? If we had been 10-15 years earlier, this process would have taken years and years.”
“It was an incredible scientific achievement,” he said.
