Fauci: Do a Risk Benefit Discussion with Your Family About What You Will Want To Do with the Holidays

‘You might say, you know, I have vulnerable people in the family’

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FAUCI: “Secondly, from a public health standpoint, do a risk benefit discussion with your family about what you will want to do with the holidays. In other words, you might say, 'You know, I have vulnerable people in the family. I have elderly people, I have people with underlying conditions. Do I want to get 10, 15, 20 people flying in from different parts of the country?' That’s a wonderful, beautiful tradition that we have, Jim, but maybe the time now is to take an assessment of that risk benefit ratio and maybe modify what you are going to do from now. And the scientific thing is that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Help is on the way. So a vaccine should not have you then make a decision, 'Well, we’ll have a vaccine so we don’t have to do anything else.' No. The fact that we have a vaccine coming means we should double down and hang in there because help is on the way, which would motivate us to do even better with public health measures."

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