Fauci: We Shouldn’t Ban W. African Travel Because Not Many Are Trying To Visit America

 “I have never had an experience where a president is telling me to tell him something that he wants to hear. The president and the health officials, Sylvia Burwell and others, ask you — what is your opinion about this? And that’s the reason why we give the opinion. We express the — we respect the opposing opinion, but what was just articulated by Senator Cruz, the fact is, it would be very, very difficult if you lost control of easily tracking people.

You have got to look at the numbers to look about how many people are really trying to get into the country. We have 36,000 people in two months went to airports to get out of those three countries; 77 were blocked because of a health issue. When they investigated them, none of them had Ebola. A lot of them had malaria. So, there’s not a lot of people trying to get into the country. So, that’s the thing that needs to be understood.”