Introduction
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, recently issued a “sobering” warning about the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic. He urged Americans to take the necessary precautions to protect themselves and their families, including eating the right foods. Eating the right foods can help boost the immune system and reduce the risk of infection. In this article, we will discuss the foods that Dr. Fauci recommends and the foods that should be avoided. We will also discuss the importance of eating a balanced diet and the potential health benefits of certain foods.
Dr. Fauci Just Issued This “Sobering” Warning — Eat This Not That
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, recently issued a “sobering” warning about the current state of the coronavirus pandemic. During an interview with CNN, Fauci said that the virus is still very much a threat and that people should be mindful of what they eat.
Fauci said that people should be careful about what they eat and that they should avoid foods that are high in sugar, fat, and salt. He also warned against eating processed foods, which can contain a lot of unhealthy ingredients. He said that people should focus on eating more fruits, vegetables, and whole grains.
Fauci also warned against eating out too often, as restaurants can be a source of potential exposure to the virus. He said that people should limit their dining out to only when it is absolutely necessary. He also suggested that people should opt for takeout or delivery when possible.
Fauci’s warning is a reminder that the virus is still very much a threat and that people should take precautions to protect themselves and their families. Eating a healthy diet and avoiding processed foods is one way to help reduce the risk of infection.
COVID fatigue is real but so is the fact that cases are back at more than 130,000 a day, with hospitals in some states overcrowded and deaths rising. The new variant, Omicron, is thriving, as Delta remains pervasive. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the chief medical advisor to the President and the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, appeared on This Week yesterday, warning that Omicron has a “high degree of transmissibility.” How can you stay safe? Read on for five life-saving pieces of advice—and to ensure your health and the health of others, don’t miss these Sure Signs You’ve Already Had COVID.
Omicron, says Fauci, “clearly has a transmission advantage in the sense of in countries like South Africa and now the UK, where you have it competing with the Delta varied in the sense of ability to transmit, it looks like it has a high degree of transmissibility.” He continued: “And that’s the reason why you’re seeing literally every day more and more countries and in the United States more and more states. The thing that’s important is that it appears to be able to evade some of the immune protection of things like monoclonal antibodies, convalescent plasma, and the antibodies that are induced by vaccines. That’s the sobering news. The somewhat encouraging news is that preliminary day to show that when you get a booster, for example, a third shot of an mRNA, it raises the level of protection high enough that it then does do well against the Omicron, which is again, another reason to encourage people who are not vaccinated to get vaccinated, but particularly those who are vaccinated to get boosted because that diminution and protection seems to go way back up again.”
“The other thing that’s important is that … we’re getting anecdotal information from not necessarily confirmed yet that the level of severity appears to be maybe a bit less than in the Delta, but there are a lot of confounding issues there. It may be due to the underlying protection in the community due to prior I, but these are just preliminary data that we’re gonna have to just follow carefully to get them confirmed.”
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Dr. Fauci said your vaccines and a booster is “the optimal care. I mean, for official requirements, it’s still two shots of the mRNA and one shot of the J&J, for the official determination of what’s required or not. But I think if you look at the data, more and more, it becomes clear that if you want to be optimally protected, you really should get a booster. And I think we’ll be continuing to evaluate what the official designation is, but if you want to be optimally protected, absolutely get a booster.”
Will we need yearly boosters? Fauci added: “The third shot of an mRNA could not only do what we absolutely know it does—it dramatically increase the level of protection—but from an immunological standpoint, it could very well increase the durability of protection by things that you can’t readily measure by the level of antibodies that you might have a maturation of the immune system that would prolong the durability. You don’t know that until you just follow it over a period of months, if it becomes necessary to get yet another boost, then we’ll just have to deal with it when that occurs. But I’m hoping from an immunological standpoint that that third shot of an mRNA and the second shot of a J&J will give a much greater durability of protection than just the six months or so that we’re seeing right now.”
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“My message to parents is if your child is five years of age and older, please get them vaccinated,” said Dr. Fauci. “We need to protect the children. This idea that children are not vulnerable at all is not so. I mean, certainly statistically children do not get as severe disease as the adults, particularly the elderly. But if you look at the number of cases of children now, well over 2 million children from five to 11, they’ve been over 8,000 to 9,000 hospitalizations and well over a hundred deaths. So it’s not only good for the health of the child, but also to prevent the spread in the community. So we have a very safe and highly effective vaccine for everyone, including children, five to elevens. And that’s the reason why we encourage parents to get their children vaccinated.”
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“We have the tools to protect ourselves and that’s the thing we keep saying over and over again—we have 60 million people in this country who are not yet vaccinated, who are eligible to be vaccinated. And those who are luckily did get vaccinated, now we have about a hundred million of them that are eligible for boosters. So on that framework alone, just vaccination, we can go a long way to getting us through this cold winter season, which clearly is always associated with a spike and respiratory illnesses. But the other things we can do is to be prudent, namely follow the CDC guidelines that when you are in an indoor congregate setting and you do not know the vaccination status of the people around you wear a mask, you know, masking is not gonna be forever, but it can get us out of the very difficult situation we’re in now. So just the tension to public health measures that are pretty clear can get us through this. And as we get through the winter and into the spring, hopefully will have a much better control over things.” So get vaccinated or boosted, follow those fundamentals, 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.