Dr. Fauci on People Not Getting Vaccinated, Conspiracies & Misinformation and Last Talk with Trump

our next guest has advised seven u.s presidents on domestic and global health issues uh one of them he argued with a lot but he is the director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases please welcome dr anthony fauci hi dr hey jimmy how are you good to see you it's good to see you too thanks for being with us we appreciate it uh dr founty you are you know what i mentioned you're the director of the national institute of allergy and infectious disease and i feel like we're not hearing much about allergy nowadays i feel like are you working on a peanut vaccine because i would like to be able to to make lunch for my children to take to school well jimmy yes actually there are people still working on those other problems as much as the attention is taken away from it oh it's interesting that there are people working on this stuff and probably not feeling very loved right now are they no they're not they're certainly not on the prime time speaking of not feeling loved first of all i love you i think you are a godsend to us in this country and i am grateful for your sanity throughout all of this but are you i would imagine and of course i'm putting my own brain in this situation are you frustrated by the fact that after all the work you and and so many people did to get these vaccines working and available that a quarter of this country will not get it yes jimmy it is very frustrating not only because you know you care about everyone in the country you want you care about the health and the safety of individuals but also you know there's a societal responsibility that we should all have to put an end to this outbreak and if you have a group of people who understandably may think that they're invulnerable because they're young and healthy and statistically the chances of their getting into trouble when they get vaccinated therefore it doesn't make any difference if they get infected because they likely will do well that's really not the right attitude for the following reason one you're not exempt from a serious outcome because we still see now a number of young people getting seriously ill but also what happens if you let yourself get infected it isn't just you in a vacuum you may inadvertently and innocently infect somebody else who'll infect someone who really get in trouble that could be someone's grandmother or grandfather someone's wife who's on chemotherapy for breast cancer so you can't think about yourself in a vacuum you have to think about somewhat of your societal responsibility so that's that's really the frustrating part jimmy at what point do we give up on these boneheads and send the shots to india where they really need them and want them no you don't want to give up on people you want to give them the opportunity first of all to make it very very easy for them to get vaccinated you know the president today made the announcement that we're going to pull back from the big massive vaccination programs and really have it a walk-in type thing where you could walk into any of tens of thousands of pharmacies get vaccinated without an appointment or anything like that that doesn't mean that we still should not pay attention which we should to the suffering throughout the rest of the world because i do believe we have a moral responsibility to be able to do what we can to get those people vaccinated also absolutely now this is the first pandemic we've had in the era of social media do you feel like that it has been because obviously you there are good things where you can get the information out more quickly and people can sign up online and whatnot but also it's easier to spread disinformation do you think social media has been good or bad in the context of getting people vaccinated yeah i think it's total mixed blessing jimmy i think it's both good and bad getting information out to people you can do it quickly and you can do it in bulk but also when you get disinformation conspiracy theories out and out fabrications that gets frustrated because when people go through social media sometimes they can't distinguish the complete nonsense from the things that are really important to them that's the problem speaking of complete nonsense when's the last time you talked to donald trump well i believe jimmy that it was when he was just about ready to get out of the hospital when he was infected with saws kobe 2. we had a conversation we may have had a conversation maybe once after that but the one i remember very well when he called me up when he was in the hospital and it was just essentially recovering from sars kobe 2. why did he call you was he looking for medical advice why was he calling at that time well you know he was talking about the fact that he was impressed with the fact that he got the monoclonal antibody and he felt it really did him some really real good and he wanted to just call me up and tell me about that and so did did you get the sense that he felt like we didn't need to keep working on the vaccine because we have the solution right here no no i mean to give credit to the former administration you know they put together operation warp speed which was really important in getting things rolling right now we're in the implementation stage which is going really really very successfully in vaccines yes it does seem to be all of a sudden it seemed like they we the vaccines were available and where it was very difficult to get one i mean i was online trying to get my parents uh an appointment and trying to get my aunt and uncle appointments and it was it was like it was like trying to get tickets to van halen in 1984. it was crazy and then yeah yeah and that's the truth when when the demand outstrips the supply you get the experience that you had jimmy but when you then have the supply and the demand either being equal or even maybe a little bit more on the part of supply that's when you've really got to get out there and put the extra special effort because as the pool of people that you want to vaccinate gets less and less proportionally that's when you really got to put on the afterburners and get those last group of people vaccinated dr fauci were you shocked to learn that people were angry with you and actually threatened you and had all these hateful things to say about you was that something that you never thought you would experience in your life as a doctor uh yeah jimmy i i never would have imagined when i was training in medicine and for the many many years that i was in medicine with the field of hiv and all the other things we did that would we we would reach a situation where there would be such extraordinary divisiveness in the country i mean if there's one time or one area where you don't want to be fighting with each other is when you have a common enemy that's a very powerful enemy that's trying to put both of you out and that's the virus i mean it just doesn't make any sense and i as a person who's giving public health advice and trying you know i consider the country as my patient you know metaphorically where you really want to take care of them and it's sort of like part of that group wants no part of you and actually attacks you which is you know i'm i'm used to it now jimmy yeah but it was a real jolt and a shock early on when you get completely criticized and attacked because you're saying things that is trying to save the lives and preserve the health of people it's just kind of weird it's maddening is what it is how's your wife doing and what is it what are you looking forward to doing when this is all over and we can move freely about the country well my wife is really the anchor of all this she has been incredible i don't think i could have gone through all of this extraordinary surrealistic year and a half without her support she's really an amazing person the the things that we're really looking forward to when we get this behind us is i haven't seen my children i have three young adult daughters uh the youngest of whom i haven't seen in well over a year and the middle and eldest one i haven't seen in almost a year that's the thing i really want to do yes they have not traveled uh you know and also i want to just do the simple things like go to a ball game and watch the washington nationals gotcha and maybe clean up your office too when you're uh while you're at it all right dr fletcher when we come back we got some people some regular people out on the street who have some questions and hopefully these will be questions that help a lot of people who are wondering more with dr fauci after this we'll be right back dr anthony fauci is with us you've probably been asked enough questions for the whole rest of your life over the past year but we have a few more dr fauci if you would be so kind actually i have a quick question for you which vaccine did you get do you say yeah i got the modern that was the one that was available to me at the nih and as i've always said get the one that's available get it as quickly as you can all right it happened to be that mojana was available at the nih so i got that is that your philosophy when it comes to dating as well all right let's go on the street and uh meet some folks who are passing by hi what's your name darris boyd hi there darris uh dr fauci is on the line do you have a question for him yes sir dr fauci well i need a third booster shot to go with my fisa vaccine you know it is conceivable that you might we don't know for sure right now but if the protection the level of protection that you have starts to taper down over a period of time we're following that in a large number of patients so it is conceivable that you might so i wouldn't be surprised and you can expect that that might happen and if it does happen you should definitely take it if it gets recommended yes sir thank you so much all right thank you darris all right now we're gonna boil that microphone and hand it off to someone else we're very safe around here dr fought you want to know that hi what's your name hi dwayne standridge go ahead with dr fauci duane will i ever be able to eat again at hometown buffet [Laughter] the is absolutely yes we will gradually get back to normal we will dwayne what do you like at the hometown buffet what's your item uh the brunch the uh waffles and eggs and everything all right he's a breakfast man absolutely all right thanks let's hear from somebody else dr fauci have you ever eaten at the hometown buffet no unfortunately not okay all right uh next up we have hi what's your name hi i'm michelle hi michelle dr fauci is with us go ahead if i got one shot of moderna and one of pfizer what would happen you know we they're both the same type of vaccines they're both mrna vaccines we recommend you get the same type but if one is not available we feel that there really isn't a major difference as long as it's in the in the same type so if you started off with one and got the other you should be in good shape and get a good response oh that's great i had no idea i feel like i know everything about this stuff and it turns out i don't yeah okay well that's interesting all right who else is out there on the boulevard we have hi hi what's your name uh my name is rocky hi there uh yeah i was wondering if my dog gets covered and then i kiss my dog can i get covered that's a great question yeah well it's unlikely that your dog is gonna get covered and it's unlikely that if you kiss your dog you're going to get it cold from your dog so you have two really unlikely things you're your dog that's great but animals do get covered right doctor they they actually jimmy that's a good point animals do there have been zoo animals the big cats and others that have gotten covered but there's no incidents at all that's documented of covid that is directly transmitted from a domestic animal a pet to a person all right very good we have one more question i believe uh the question is why why are schools doing this and is it a good idea from a medical standpoint it's hard to understand the reasoning behind this as a group young people are not at risk of dying from covid maybe more significant huge numbers of college students have already been infected with the coronavirus we know that and therefore they have natural immunity to it so why do these kids need the vaccine no one has explained that dr fauci can you explain to the gentleman with a big cold sore on his lip why the kids need the vaccine you know jimmy it's exactly what i said a little bit ago yeah that one you want to protect yourself but also you don't want to be part of the propagation of the outbreak because if you get infected even though you're young and healthy you could as i said it would be inadvertently and innocently pass it on to someone else who can have a severe outcome and when you get infected you are propagating the outbreak you're not being a dead stop you're allowing the virus to continue from you to someone else so even though you don't get any symptoms because you're generally a young healthy person you don't want to be part of the continuation of the outbreak you want to be a roadblock to the outbreak and that's why you want to get involved we all have to work together to stop this thing and thank you for leading us dr fauci we greatly appreciate it don't listen to those maniacs everybody loves you all right dr anthony fauci everybody we'll be back with music from anita thanks for watching if you liked that video click the subscribe button and if you didn't like it you will you hurt my feelings

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Length: 14min 8sec (848 seconds)

Published: Wed May 05 2021