I was trying to let science guide our policy, but he was putting as much stock in anecdotal things that turned out not to be true as he was in what s… - Anthony Fauci

It’s almost like passing a baton in a race. You don’t want to stop, and then give it to somebody, you want to just essentially keep going

It’s a very, very low risk to the United States, but it’s something that we as public health officials need to take very seriously... It isn’t something the American public needs to worry about or be frightened about. Because we have ways of preparing and screening of people coming in [from China]. And we have ways of responding - like we did with this one case in Seattle, Washington, who had traveled to China and brought back the infection. [...] We’ve just got to make sure that we are totally prepared [since] infectious diseases will continue to emerge on the human species. And we’ve got to be essentially perpetually prepared.

: There’s a lot of confusion among people, and misinformation, surrounding face masks. Can you discuss that?