There's no way I’m going to walk away from this until we get this under control, i mean, that's the purpose of what we do. That's -- that's our mission in life. In the middle of it, I’m not going to walk away.

Anthony Fauci

I don't consider the balancing act, i just give public health advice, completely clean unconnected with everything else.

I would wish that would stop because we have a much bigger problem here than trying to point out differences, theyrereally fundamentally at the core when you look at things, they are not differences.

The president was trying to bring hope to the people. I think theres this issue of [ the media ] trying to separate the two of us. There isnt fundamentally a difference there.

I keep saying, 'Is there any way we can get a virtual press conference?' thus far, no. But when you're dealing with the White House, sometimes you have to say things one, two, three, four times, and then it happens. So, I'm going to keep pushing.

I'm sort of exhausted, but other than that, I'm good. I mean, I'm not, to my knowledge, coronavirus infected. To my knowledge, I haven't been fired.

OK, he said it. Let's try and get it corrected for the next time.

I don't think with any moral conscience you could say,' Why don't we just let it rip and happen and let X percent of the people die,'.

The way it happened is that after [President Trump] made that statement [suggesting China could have revealed the discovery of a new coronavirus threeto fourmonths earlier], I told the appropriate people, it doesnt comport, because twoor threemonths earlier would have been September, the next time they sit down with him and talk about what hes going to say, they will say, By the way, Mr. President, be careful about this and dont say that. But I cant jump in front of the microphone and push him down. OK, he said it. Lets try and get it corrected for the next time.

I, on the other side, have said I'm not disagreeing with the fact anecdotally they might work, but my job is to prove definitively from a scientific standpoint that they do work, so I was taking a purely medical, scientific standpoint and The President was trying to bring hope to the people.

Yes, it is possible. Our job, our challenge is to try and make that not happen. But to think, if we go about our daily lives and not worry about everything, that it's not going to happen -- it could happen. And it could be worse.

It is correct that the infections are going to go up. Our job is to make sure it doesn't do the maximum peak and actually blunts. Within that blunt there will be many new infections. We want to make sure we don't get to that really bad peak.

Younger people should be concerned for two reasons. You are not immune or safe from getting seriously ill. Even though when you look at the total numbers, it's overwhelmingly weighted towards the elderly and those with underlying conditions. But the virus isn't a mathematical formula. There are going to be people who are young who are going to wind up getting seriously ill. So protect yourself.

I think Americans should be prepared that they are going to have to hunker down significantly more than we as a country are doing.

The idea of anybody getting it( a test) easily, the way people in other countries are doing it, we're not set up for that, do I think we should be ? Yes, but we're not.

This is 10 times more lethal than the seasonal flu.

That is a failing. Let's admit it, the idea of anybody getting it easily the way people in other countries are doing it, we're not set up for that.

We would like the country to realize that as a nation, we cant be doing the kinds of things we were doing a few months ago.

It really depends. Vice President Biden are having, as Vice President Biden've all said, this is something in motion. This is an evolving thing.

I would encourage any individual who is elderly or is medically fragile to think long and hard about going to any large gathering that would involve close quarters and potential spread. And if they do go, to take appropriate personal hygiene protections.

We would like the country to realize that as a nation, we can't be doing the kinds of things we were doing a few months ago. It doesn't matter if you're in a state that has no cases or one case.