If we skip over the checkpoints in the guidelines to :' Open America Again,' then we risk the danger of multiple outbreaks throughout the country, this will not only result in needless suffering and death, but would actually set us back on our quest to return to normal.

Anthony Fauci

The discretion is given to the governors. They know their states, the mayors know their cities, so you want to give them a little wiggle room. But my recommendation is, you know, don't wiggle too much. Try as best as you can to abide by the guidelines that were very well thought out, and very well delineated, some of them are doing that, but others are taking a bit of a chance.

We can't just leave them on their own, on the one hand, and the federal government can't do it by itself, on the other hand.

This could be a major outbreak. I hope not. Or it could be something that's reasonably well controlled, at the end of the day, this will ultimately go down. Hopefully we could protect the American public from any serious degree of morbidity or mortality. That's the reason why we've got to do the things that we have in our plan.

At this moment, there's no need to change anything that you're doing on a day by day basis. Right now, the risk is still low.

If by that time we have put into place all of the countermeasures that President Donald Trump need to address this, we should do reasonably well. If we don't do that successfully, we could be in for a bad fall and a bad winter.

We probably should get up to twice that as we get into the next several weeks, and I think we will.

You would include the FDA when you want to expedite drugs or devices.

Because there is a danger of a rebound. And I know there is a desire to move ahead quickly. That's a natural human nature desire. But going ahead and leapfrogging into phases where you should not be, I would advise him as a health official and as a physician not to do that.

What it will mean, it would protect those who have been exposed, but at the community level there would not have been enough infections to really have enough umbrella of herd immunity.

I would advise him not to just turn the switch on and go, because there is a danger of a rebound.

I would advise Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp not to just turn the switch on and go, because there is a danger of a rebound.

We have to figure out how do we close that gap.

People say,' Well, you know, you can't play without spectators,' well, I think you probably get enough buy-in from people who are dying to see a baseball game – particularly me.

I think they'd feel better about it if it's private.

I mean, obviously, you could logically say that if you had a process that was ongoing and you started mitigation earlier, you could have saved lives, obviously, no one is going to deny that. But what goes into those decisions is complicated.

The antibody test says you were infected and if you're feeling well, you've very likely recovered, as we look forward, as we get to the point of at least considering opening up the country as it were, it's very important to appreciate and to understand how much that virus has penetrated society.

We are hoping that by the end of the month we can look around and say, OK, is there any element here that we can safely and cautiously start pulling back on ? If so, do it. If not, then just continue to hunker down.

The Federal Government's going to be depending where you are in the country, the nature of the outbreak that you have already experienced, and the threat of an outbreak that you may not have experienced, the Federal Government is not going to be a light switch that we say, OK, it is now June, July or whatever, click, the light switch goes back on.

Now is no time to back off, the virus will decide.

We've got to continue in many respects to redouble our efforts at the mitigation of physical separation in order to keep those numbers down and hopefully even get those lower.