Introduction
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, recently warned that the U.S. is in the midst of a surge in coronavirus cases. He also offered advice on how to best protect yourself from the virus. In this article, we’ll discuss Dr. Fauci’s advice and provide some tips on what to eat and what to avoid to help protect yourself from the virus.
Dr. Fauci Just Said the Surge is Here and Here’s the “Best” Protection — Eat This Not That
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, recently warned that the U.S. is in the midst of a “surge upon a surge” of coronavirus cases. With the virus continuing to spread, it’s more important than ever to take precautions to protect yourself and your loved ones. One of the best ways to do this is to make sure you’re eating the right foods.
Dr. Fauci has said that eating a healthy diet is one of the best ways to protect yourself from the virus. He recommends eating plenty of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, lean proteins, and healthy fats. He also suggests avoiding processed foods, sugary drinks, and foods high in saturated fat.
Eating a healthy diet can help boost your immune system, which is important for fighting off infections. Eating a balanced diet can also help you maintain a healthy weight, which is important for overall health. Eating a healthy diet can also help reduce inflammation, which can help protect you from the virus.
In addition to eating a healthy diet, Dr. Fauci recommends getting plenty of exercise, getting enough sleep, and avoiding smoking and excessive alcohol consumption. He also recommends washing your hands frequently and wearing a face mask when you’re out in public.
By following Dr. Fauci’s advice and eating a healthy diet, you can help protect yourself and your loved ones from the virus. So, eat this, not that, and stay safe!
The coronavirus surge is here, and it’s spreading fast, as two variants—Delta and the “more transmissible” Omicron—are driving cases up everywhere from restaurants to professional sports teams. How can you stay safe given all these new developments? Dr. Anthony Fauci, the chief medical advisor to the President and the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, appeared on CNBC’s Squawk Box with an essential update. Read on for five life-saving points—and to ensure your health and the health of others, don’t miss these Sure Signs You’ve Already Had COVID.
Dr. Fauci was asked about how to stay safe in offices and “environments where people can’t wear masks, restaurants and the like.” “Well, those are difficult situations,” Fauci said. “We are having a surge—both the Delta surge, the Delta variant, but also we’re having a rather substantial increase in percentage of the new Omicron variant, which has the unfortunate capability of spreading very, very efficiently with a doubling time of about three days. So the recommendations are what we’ve always said. We’ve got to get the unvaccinated people vaccinated and boosters really help very, very much in protecting you against infection, but particularly against severe disease that might lead to hospitalization. So the recommendations in general, if you’re vaccinated and not yet boosted, go get boosted. And with regard to just how you go about your daily life, you’ve got to abide by the recommendations of the CDC: That when you are in an indoor setting, that’s a congregate setting where you do not know the status of vaccination of the people around you, to wear a mask in that indoor setting.”
“Unfortunately, we have so many people in this country who are either not yet vaccinated at all, or who have not gotten boosted, and we’ve got to get those people vaccinated.” As for what “fully vaccinated” means—two shots or three—Dr. Fauci said changing the definition to mean three shots—”That’s certainly on the table right now. It is a bit of semantics in that ‘fully vaccinated’”—for the purpose of the regulations and requirements—means two shots “but there’s no doubt that optimal vaccination is with a booster. I mean, there is no doubt about that. …I think people should not lose sight of the message that there’s no doubt that if you want to be optimally protected, you should get your booster.”
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Should we all be having holiday parties, given the surge? In New York for example, cases are raging. “Well, you’ve gotta just take things one step at a time and take a look at how things evolve,” said Dr. Fauci. “I mean, obviously if you are vaccinated, your family’s vaccinated, you have friends who have vaccinated and hopefully also boosted, you can still enjoy a social gathering generally in a home. You’ve gotta be careful when you go into large public indoor spaces, where there are a lot of people there, and that’s the reason why you should be wearing a mask under those circumstances, but you gotta follow what’s going on. If the counts keep going up and the test positivity keeps going up, we may need to be more restrictive. But for right now, people who are vaccinated and boosted should feel reasonably comfortable. But the risk is never zero, in any circumstance.”
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Regarding new restrictions, “I think you just have to look at all the different factors. You gotta look at people who are getting infected. You gotta look at the seriousness of the infection, the rate of hospitalizations, all of those things you look at when you make a determination about how restrictive you are going to be. And those things just roll out in real time, you take it step by step. I can’t give you a number now, then all of a sudden that becomes the set number, and I don’t have any real scientific data to feel, to feel very comfortable about a set number.”
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Follow the public health fundamentals and help end this pandemic, no matter where you live—get vaccinated or boosted 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.