Dr. Fauci: Black America Not Safe From Covid-19

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Exclusive: Fauci Says Black America Not Safe From Covid-19 Yet
As 1 million deaths approach, Fauci voices pandemic warnings





Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told The Root that his earlier comments about the drop in Covid-19 deaths do not mean the pandemic is over.Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call (AP)

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By Keith Reed
May 13, 2022


Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease specialist, told The Root today that cases of the deadly Covid-19 virus are slowly rising again across the country and warned that Black Americans could be particularly at risk in the event a more aggressive variant should appear.

Fauci spoke with The Root this afternoon where he clarified his own comments about where the nation stood on the status of the pandemic as the country nears the milestone of 1 million deaths from the virus, which only appeared in humans less than three years ago. As of Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had recorded 996,376 deaths from Covid-19 in the U.S.

Fauci said it’s still possible that transmission and hospitalization levels could again reach the crisis levels they had in much of 2020 and 2021 and why the disease still has a more devastating impact in the Black community than among whites or the population at large.

“The rate of hospitalization and the death rate among 100,000 population is clearly higher greater in brown and Black populations in the United States compared to the general population and compared to whites,” he said, citing the prevalence of underlying risk factors like diabetes and high blood pressure that already existed.

“So for the country as a whole, the pandemic has been extremely tragic, but for Black people, they’ve suffered disproportionately.”

Fauci also expressed concern that comments he recently made about the state of the pandemic sent the wrong message to the public at a time when cases of Covid-19 are steadily increasing. On April 26, he said the country was “out of the pandemic phase,” in an interview on PBS NewsHour. Those comments were widely repeated and, along with relaxed restrictions on masking and vaccines in many places, taken to mean that the danger from Covid-19 had largely been mitigated.

That’s far from the truth, Fauci said today. While new cases of Covid-19 are still well below the pandemic-high levels when as many as 3,000 people a day were dying from the virus, the past several days have also seen a marked increase. In early 2020, about 900,000 people were being infected daily, a number that dipped over the past few months to fewer than 100,000 daily infections. IN recent days, though, the country has climbed back over the 100,000 cases per day mark, with an increase in hospitalizations as well.

“I clarified that very, very quickly because it was taken a bit out of context,” Fauci said about his earlier remarks. “We’re not out of the woods yet by any means.”

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Coronavirus wave this fall and winter could potentially infect 100 million, White House warns

By Kaitlan Collins, CNN
May 8, 2022

Washington (CNN)The Biden administration is issuing a new warning that the US could potentially see 100 million Covid-19 infections this fall and winter, as officials publicly stress the need for more funding from Congress to prepare the nation.

The projection of 100 million potential infections is an estimate based on a range of outside models that are being closely tracked by the administration and would include both the fall and winter, a senior administration official told CNN. Officials say this estimate is based on an underlying assumption of no additional resources or extra mitigation measures being taken, including new Covid-19 funding from Congress, or dramatic new variants.

The White House is sharing these estimates as officials renew their push to get Congress to approve additional funding to combat the virus and as the nation approaches a coronavirus death toll of 1 million. Officials have said the White House will commemorate the moment when the US surpasses 1 million deaths from Covid-19.

The Biden administration has been sounding the alarm for weeks that additional funding is needed to continue the federal Covid-19 response, even as it seeks a return to "normal" with many pandemic-era restrictions lifting.


The 100 million estimate was first reported by The Washington Post.


CNN has reported that the Biden administration requested $22.5 billion in supplemental Covid-19 relief funding in March in a massive government funding package but it was stripped from the bill. That request included funding for testing, treatments, therapeutics and preventing future outbreaks. Negotiators were able to reach an agreement on a scaled-back $10 billion package, but Congress left Washington in April without passing that bipartisan bill amid a disagreement over the Title 42 immigration policy -- a pandemic-era rule that allowed migrants to be returned immediately to their home countries, citing a public health emergency.

Officials have argued that without new funding, the US could be left unprepared for future waves.

Coronavirus wave this fall and winter could potentially infect 100 million, White House warns

The Biden administration is issuing a new warning that the US could potentially see 100 million Covid-19 infections this fall and winter, as officials publicly stress the need for more funding from Congress to prepare the nation.

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Unless everybody else is just keeping mum, I only know of 3-4 people out of a hundred black folks that have actually had this shit, some overweight, some over 80.
Its unknown if having the sickle cell trait helps or hurts with getting it and beating it with minor issue.
It is known that people on antiviral meds of any kind are less susceptible, if not, then damn near ALL the black folks with HIV would be dropping like flies but they aren't to whitey's dismay I'm sure.
Ritonavir is an HIV med that is now first line defense in the Covid pill pack. Go figure that.
Fuck em.