• Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the leader of the White House COVID response team has penned a essay in a medical journal titled “What keeps me up at night.”
• The essay was published last week in the journal “Science Translational Medicine.”
• In the essay Fauci says as a public health official he was frequently asked what keeps you up at night, or “what is your worst nightmare?” My answer to the first version of the question was …. the possibility of the emergence of a brand-new pathogen, almost certainly a virus, spread by the respiratory route, with a high efficiency of transmissibility and the capability of causing considerable morbidity and mortality. The answer to the second version of the question is … the COVID-19 era. For the past three and a half years, we all have been living my worst nightmare: a deadly pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2, exactly the type of virus that I most feared.”

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