Dr. Fauci Just Issued This Essential COVID Update — Eat This Not That

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, has just issued an important update on the COVID-19 pandemic. In his latest statement, Dr. Fauci has urged Americans to make smart food choices in order to stay healthy and reduce their risk of contracting the virus. He has specifically recommended that people eat more nutrient-dense foods and avoid processed and sugary snacks. This article will provide an overview of Dr. Fauci’s advice and offer some tips on how to make healthier food choices during the pandemic.

Dr. Fauci Just Issued This Essential COVID Update — Eat This Not That

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, recently issued an essential update on the COVID-19 pandemic. He urged Americans to continue to practice social distancing, wear masks, and avoid large gatherings. He also advised people to eat healthy foods and avoid processed and sugary snacks.

Dr. Fauci said that eating healthy foods can help boost the immune system and reduce the risk of getting sick. He recommended eating plenty of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, lean proteins, and healthy fats. He also suggested avoiding processed and sugary snacks, which can weaken the immune system and make it harder to fight off infections.

Dr. Fauci also warned against consuming too much alcohol, which can also weaken the immune system. He said that people should limit their alcohol consumption to no more than one drink per day for women and two drinks per day for men.

Dr. Fauci’s advice is an important reminder that eating healthy foods and avoiding processed and sugary snacks can help protect against COVID-19. Eating a balanced diet and limiting alcohol consumption can help keep the immune system strong and reduce the risk of getting sick.

We’re entering the third pandemic summer, and it’s a confusing time. Cases are up nationwide. Hospitalizations are rising but not to the extent of previous COVID-19 waves. People over 50 are advised to get a fourth vaccine dose. But where are we, really, and what does the future of COVID look like as we head into the fall and beyond? Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-disease expert, shed some light on this during an interview this week. 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.

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In an interview with PIX on Politics, Fauci said that official counts of COVID infections are no longer accurate because many people who are testing positive for the coronavirus now are doing so via at-home tests, which aren’t reported to health officials. “The one data points that are really accurate are the number of hospitalizations,” he said. “With the home tests, we are likely undercounting the number of cases … that we get over a period of time because many people don’t report it.”

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“We don’t want to poo-poo the idea of people getting infected,” said Fauci. “Because people get infected—and even though they don’t have to be hospitalized, which is a reflection very clearly, objectively of severe disease—people can get a significant amount of discomfort of an infection, even if they don’t require hospitalization.”

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Fauci said that instead of talking about periodic boosters, we may soon be looking at an annual COVID vaccination, similar to the annual flu shot. “​​Ultimately we’ll be talking more about keeping your vaccinations up to date,” he said. That might ultimately merge into a yearly boost., We don’t know that. I’m not saying that’s going to happen. But it is entirely conceivable. We know that immunity wanes over time, and we know you need to be boosted to continue to be protected. So depending upon what this virus does, there is certainly a reasonably good chance that we will have the same sort of situation that we have with influenza, where every year you have to boost people to keep that protection up.”

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“We certainly will continue to get variants” of COVID, said Fauci, adding: “Hopefully they won’t be so far different than what we’ve been dealing with, that it would evade completely the protection” of infection and vaccines. 

“We’re going to be dealing with this virus on a chronic basis,” he said. “What we really hope to do—and the more people who get vaccinated and the more people who get boosted make this more likely—that it will reach a level low enough that it doesn’t disrupt us to the extent that it has over the past couple of years.” 

“We’re not going to eradicate this,” Fauci said. “But we will have it hopefully at a low enough level that it doesn’t disturb us to the extent of disrupting society.”

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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

Michael Martin is a New York City-based writer and editor whose health and lifestyle content has also been published on Beachbody and Openfit. A contributing writer for Eat This, Not That!, he has also been published in New York, Architectural Digest, Interview, and many others. Read more

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