Fauci on testing window after exposure
Fauci also discussed when people should get tested for COVID-19 if they believe they've been exposed to the virus, since there are no official guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the National Institutes of Health on when to get tested.
\"That question came up at the task force meeting yesterday and we asked the same thing and we said there's no real recommendation,\" Fauci said. \"I would think that five [days] is good. I might even go a day or so early because the incubation period of when you get symptoms is about five days.\"
The window Fauci recommended is \"no earlier than three [days] or no later than five or six.\"
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PHOTO: Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci, center, speaks during a news conference with members of the Coronavirus task force in Washington, June 26, 2020.
Fauci looks ahead to flu season
As the summer transitions into the fall, Fauci also discussed the oncoming flu season.
Fauci said he hopes wearing masks will help limit the spread of influenza as well.
\"It is inevitable that we're going to have some degree of flu,\" he said. \"I'm hoping that the wearing of masks and other coverings are going to not only protect us against COVID-19, but also help protect us against influenza.\"
He said two circulating respiratory viruses really \"confuses the situation\" since symptoms of the novel coronavirus and flu are so similar.
\"Go out there and get your flu shot when the flu vaccine becomes available,\" he urged.
Fauci on his personal life
Fauci chalked up his own good health to genetics, which he said was probably inherited by his father, who lived to 97. The 79-year-old has joked about his own age, most recently when he struggled while throwing out the first pitch at the Washington Nationals' home opener.
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PHOTO: Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases throws out the ceremonial first pitch.
He gets up at 5 a.m. every morning, grabs juice or eggs and will drink two \"very strong\" double espressos as he tackles his email. He works late, tries to squeeze in a run -- he noted he used to run marathons in his younger days -- and then will work \"well into the night.\"
\"Sleep is the one thing that's really suffered in all this,\" he said.
He also joked about his baseball card, featuring his opening pitch last week, which is breaking sales records: \"It's a combination of humbling and really embarrassing. ... Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle are looking down from heaven at me and saying, 'Are you kidding?'\"
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