Introduction
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, recently gave an important update on the COVID-19 pandemic. He discussed the importance of making smart food choices to help protect against the virus. In this article, we’ll discuss Dr. Fauci’s advice on what to eat and what to avoid to help keep you and your family safe. We’ll also provide some tips on how to make healthier food choices. So, if you’re looking for ways to stay healthy during the pandemic, read on to learn more about Dr. Fauci’s advice on what to eat and what to avoid.
Dr. Fauci Just Gave This Important COVID Update — Eat This Not That
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, recently gave an important update on the COVID-19 pandemic. He urged Americans to continue to practice social distancing, wear masks, and avoid large gatherings. He also emphasized the importance of eating a healthy diet to help protect against the virus.
Dr. Fauci recommends eating a balanced diet that includes plenty of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, lean proteins, and healthy fats. He also suggests limiting processed foods, sugary drinks, and foods high in saturated fat. Eating a healthy diet can help boost your immune system and reduce your risk of getting sick.
Dr. Fauci also recommends avoiding certain foods that can increase your risk of getting sick. These include foods that are high in sugar, processed meats, and foods that are high in saturated fat. Eating these foods can increase your risk of developing chronic diseases, such as diabetes and heart disease, which can make you more vulnerable to COVID-19.
Dr. Fauci’s advice is simple: Eat this, not that. Choose healthy, nutrient-dense foods that will help boost your immune system and reduce your risk of getting sick. Avoid processed foods, sugary drinks, and foods high in saturated fat. Eating a healthy diet can help protect you from COVID-19 and other illnesses.
As cases of the BA.2 subvariant of COVID continue to tick upward throughout the U.S., Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-disease expert, recently appeared on FP Live to analyze exactly where we are at this point in the pandemic, including how Americans can decide what’s safe to do in public and when they should wear a face mask. Read on to find out more—and to ensure your health and the health of others, don’t miss these Sure Signs You’ve Already Had COVID.
Fauci noted that although cases of “90-plus percent of our population has either been vaccinated and boosted or have gotten infected or both. So there’s a degree of basic immunity in the community, which is not protecting us specifically from infection, but seems to be protecting us from that surge of it, of hospitalizations, which have stressed the healthcare system during previous eras of this pandemic.”
“Bottom line is, we’re much better off now than we were a year ago, but we are still dealing with this virus,” said Fauci. “It’s not behind us. We are still dealing with it. We’re having a small bit of an uptick now. And we hope that we don’t see a major uptick as we get into the fall, but that remains to be seen.”
So how do Americans decide what’s safe to do, as this uptick in cases continues? Fauci spoke to his own recent decision to skip the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. “As long as there is virus that is circulating, people need to evaluate either themselves or with the help of their physician or their healthcare provider, what the level of risk it would be if they get infected,” he said. “Now, it’s going to be very difficult to prevent yourself from getting infected if you have no caution at all—you just go into indoor settings, no mask at all.”
“So you’ve got to ask yourself, what is my own personal risk?” he added. “Not only for myself—my age, my underlying conditions—and other factors which people may not appreciate, for example, who is living with you in your household. So if you are a healthy 40-year-old person with no underlying conditions, but you have an elderly person or a person who’s immune-compromised who’s living with you… you could endanger the health and maybe the life of someone close to you.”
Asked about his personal stance on wearing a face mask in public, Fauci said his stance on masking “is really very much in parallel with the CDC”
“If I would go into an unknown place, an indoor setting, where there are a lot of people around, I have no idea what their status is of vaccine, given my age and my risk aversion because of my other responsibilities, I would wear a mask,” he said. “I wouldn’t say it’s absolutely necessary and you must regulate someone to wear a mask. But I would say you make a personal decision that if you’re in a setting like that wear a mask … there are certain circumstances where it’s much more likely that the benefit of a mask would really be important.”
Fauci was asked about long COVID, which he said scientists are still grappling to understand. “We’re doing a lot of studies to try and understand really what the etiology and pathogenesis of that is, because it is really a very important problem,” he said. “Anywhere from five to up to 30% of people who get COVID have lingering signs and symptoms well beyond the resolution of the acute infection. We don’t know what that is and why that is, but we certainly need to find out, because with so many hundreds of millions of people getting infected throughout the world, that could be a significant problem if we don’t find out what it is and what we can do about it.”
Follow the fundamentals and help end this pandemic, no matter where you live—get vaccinated ASAP; if you live in an area with low vaccination rates, wear an N95 face mask, don’t travel, social distance, avoid large crowds, don’t go indoors with people you’re not sheltering with (especially in bars), practice good hand hygiene, and to protect your life and the lives of others, don’t visit any of these 35 Places You’re Most Likely to Catch COVID.
Michael Martin