Fauci: Beyond the Economy, We Cannot Afford to Shut Down the Country over Omicron

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FAUCI: "Well, I wouldn’t use the word 'economic,' Michael. When you shut down society, when you shut down the country, there is a lot of deleterious effects that go along with that, that go well beyond the economy, is the availability of people to get things done for their own health. When you shut down the country, you have people who have other diseases who don’t have the opportunity to get their HIV test, to get their HIV meds, to get their mammograms, the colonoscopies. All the things you do when you shut down, there's a lot of deleterious effects that go well beyond economy. So I wouldn’t just say it’s an economic consideration."