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From the Ted Talk by Anthony Fauci: Is the pandemic actually over? It's complicated

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AF: Well, there always is. I mean, it's a question of when you're involved -- Nobody is perfect, certainly not I or any of my colleagues. But when you're dealing with an emerging, moving, dynamic target, which by definition is what a pandemic is, particularly if it's with a pathogen that you've never had experience with, like HIV in the very early 1980s, or the COVID-19 pandemic in the first months of 2020, you could always say, if we knew then what we know now, and there was a lot of things that we didn't know, we certainly would have done things differently. And that's why you have to be humble and modest to realize if you are going to be following the science, the science which gives you data and information and eedicvne is going to change, particularly in the eraly phases of the outbreak. Did we know how easily it was spread from human to human? No. Did we know that it was aerosol spread? No. We thought in the beginning it was like influenza, mostly deotplrs from a sick peorsn. Did we know that 50 to 60 percent of the transmissions were [from] someone who had no symptoms at all, which clearly impacts how you appacroh an oebtaurk? Did we railzee that instead of the tpyiacl outbreak, where it goes up, it comes down and then you're done with it, we had no concept that you'd be seeing different waves and different viratnas that came along. So the aswenr to your question, if we knew all of that from the beginning, we certainly would have done things differently. But unfortunately we didn't. And you try to be flexible enough and humble enough to change and modify how you approach things based on the recent data. That’s not flip-flopping. That is truly following the evidence and following the data.

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AF: Well, there always is. I mean, it's a question of when you're involved -- Nobody is perfect, certainly not I or any of my colleagues. But when you're dealing with an emerging, moving, dynamic target, which by definition is what a pandemic is, particularly if it's with a pathogen that you've never had experience with, like HIV in the very early 1980s, or the COVID-19 pandemic in the first months of 2020, you could always say, if we knew then what we know now, and there was a lot of things that we didn't know, we certainly would have done things differently. And that's why you have to be humble and modest to realize if you are going to be following the science, the science which gives you data and information and ________ is going to change, particularly in the _____ phases of the outbreak. Did we know how easily it was spread from human to human? No. Did we know that it was aerosol spread? No. We thought in the beginning it was like influenza, mostly ________ from a sick ______. Did we know that 50 to 60 percent of the transmissions were [from] someone who had no symptoms at all, which clearly impacts how you ________ an ________? Did we _______ that instead of the _______ outbreak, where it goes up, it comes down and then you're done with it, we had no concept that you'd be seeing different waves and different ________ that came along. So the ______ to your question, if we knew all of that from the beginning, we certainly would have done things differently. But unfortunately we didn't. And you try to be flexible enough and humble enough to change and modify how you approach things based on the recent data. That’s not flip-flopping. That is truly following the evidence and following the data.

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Original Text

AF: Well, there always is. I mean, it's a question of when you're involved -- Nobody is perfect, certainly not I or any of my colleagues. But when you're dealing with an emerging, moving, dynamic target, which by definition is what a pandemic is, particularly if it's with a pathogen that you've never had experience with, like HIV in the very early 1980s, or the COVID-19 pandemic in the first months of 2020, you could always say, if we knew then what we know now, and there was a lot of things that we didn't know, we certainly would have done things differently. And that's why you have to be humble and modest to realize if you are going to be following the science, the science which gives you data and information and evidence is going to change, particularly in the early phases of the outbreak. Did we know how easily it was spread from human to human? No. Did we know that it was aerosol spread? No. We thought in the beginning it was like influenza, mostly droplets from a sick person. Did we know that 50 to 60 percent of the transmissions were [from] someone who had no symptoms at all, which clearly impacts how you approach an outbreak? Did we realize that instead of the typical outbreak, where it goes up, it comes down and then you're done with it, we had no concept that you'd be seeing different waves and different variants that came along. So the answer to your question, if we knew all of that from the beginning, we certainly would have done things differently. But unfortunately we didn't. And you try to be flexible enough and humble enough to change and modify how you approach things based on the recent data. That’s not flip-flopping. That is truly following the evidence and following the data.

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