A top U.S. health official warned Americans who are elderly or have who underlying health conditions not to get on a cruise ship as the number of documented coronavirus cases continues to rise
A top U.S. health official on Sunday warned Americans who are elderly or have who underlying health conditions not to get on a cruise ship as the number of documented coronavirus cases continues to rise within the United States and globally.
“Something that’s important, that I hope the American people appreciate is that the risk of getting into trouble with this infection, namely if you are infected, is overwhelmingly weighted toward people with underlying conditions and the elderly,” said Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, on NBC’s “Meet the Press.
Fauci said health officials should be able to “get a better handle” on the number of the people who have contracted the coronavirus now that testing is more widely available. But he said people “need to seriously look at anything that's a large gathering.” “You have to realistically be concerned about community spread,” he said, referring to people who get sick from contact with other sick people in their community.
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