I understand the need to want to get back to normality, but you're only going to set yourself back if you just completely push aside the public health guidelines -- particularly when we're dealing with anywhere from 55 to 70,000 infections per day in the The US.

Anthony Fauci

It does not have to be 100,000 cases a day, i used that number because I wanted to jolt people.

It really will depend on the dynamics of the outbreak in the particular location where the school is.

Always make the goal that it is very important to get the children back to school for the unintended negative consequences that occur when we keep them out of school.

When states start to try and open again they need to follow the guidelines that have been very carefully laid out with regard to check points, what we've seen in several states are different iterations of that. Perhaps maybe in some, going too quickly and skipping over some of the checkpoints.

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It's a violation of the principles of what we're trying to do, and that is the social distancing, the wearing of masks.

We have to admit it that mixed message in the beginning, even though it was well meant, to allow masks to be available to help workers, that was detrimental in getting the message across right now, no doubt about it.

We've got to be able to get people to get out and enjoy themselves within the safe guidelines that we have, make public health work for you as opposed to against you.

We are now having 40-plus thousand new cases a day. I would not be surprised if we go up to 100,000 a day if this does not turn around and so I am very concerned.

We're going to continue to be in a lot of trouble, and there's going to be a lot of hurt if that does not stop.

Its a paradigm shift because were dealing with young people, people who are going to be asymptomatic, and people who are getting infected in a community setting, not an outbreak setting where you know who to identify, isolate and contact trace.

For goodness sakes : avoid crowds, wear masks. Those are the fundamentals that -- when Peter Hotez look at the television clips, when Peter Hotez see pictures in the newspapers -- people are not doing that. That's a recipe for disaster.

Something's not working, i mean, you can do all the diagramming you want, but something is not working.

What you need to do is find the penetration of infected people in your society, and the only way you know that is by casting a broad net.

We now know the level of virus in an asymptomatic person is about the same as the level of virus in somebody who has symptoms, so it's like, oh my goodness, how do you address that ?

For goodness sakes : avoid crowds, wear masks. Those are the fundamentals that -- when you look at the television clips, when you see pictures in the newspapers -- people are not doing that. That's a recipe for disaster.

Anthony Fauci're essentially chasing after a forest fire.

I wouldn't necessarily say an absolute shutdown, lockdown, but if someone is going from gateway to phase one to phase two and they get into trouble in phase two, they may need to go back to phase one.

They've suffered in that their rate of infection is higher because of the nature of the economic status that many of them find themselves in where they're outside working, being unable to physically separate.

I don't see any option other than to start re-implementing significant levels of social distancing.