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Fauci said regardless of where you are Americans should continue to wear masks inside and outside, social distance, and avoid crowds. On the younger average age of new cases, Fauci said more of the new cases are in younger people, in part because they are sick of being at home and are returning to social activities, restaurants, and bars, but that they are not immune.

\"Young people should not feel that they're invulnerable to serious consequences,\" he said, adding that even if young people get infected with no symptoms that doesn't mean it isn't a problem.

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\"By getting infected they are propagating the outbreak, because inadvertently or innocently, they could infect someone, who'd infect someone, and then all of a sudden someone's grandmother or grandfather, or aunt who's getting chemotherapy for breast cancer gets infected. So although you think you're isolated in a vacuum you're not, you're part of the propagation of the pandemic so it's your responsibility to yourself, as well as to society, to avoid infection. That's the message, I know it's difficult to get out to young people, but they really need to understand that.\"

On the tension around the current outbreaks, Fauci said Americans should not look at public health efforts and reopening the economy as at odds with each other but there should be a balance of all the parameters to use protecting public health as a way to reopen.

\"I hope they appreciate it, that rather than looking at the public health effort, versus economic opening, as if they were opposing forces,\" he said. \"They're not. We should use the public health effort as a vehicle and a pathway to get to safe reopening, it's not an obstacle. It's a pathway to do that. So we've got to make sure that we don't create this binary type thing it's us against them, it's not. We're all in it together,\" he said.

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