The Washington Post hosted halfhour conversation. Robert welcome to Washington Post live. Im robert costa. Today, on our path forward series, which focuses on the pandemic, i am pleased to welcome back dr. Anthony fauci. Dr. Fauci, as you all know, is leading the nations fight against the coronavirus. He is director of the National Institute of allergies and infectious diseases. He has advised president s for decades, including president trump, and he has been praised by president elect biden. Dr. Fauci, welcome back. Dr. Fauci thank you, bob. Its good to be with you. Robert we had questions for our audience members. We will get to them in a moment. Its thanksgiving week. Any lastminute messages for americans who are still undecided on traveling . Dr. Fauci yes, bob, thank you. Obviously each individual family has to make, as i have said over the past few days, a riskbenefit assessment about the risk you are willing to take in traveling and in congregating in the usual warm atmosphere
And only talk about the virus, the vaccine developments, when there is not much thats new. Why do this at all on a friday evening . I cant answer that. Its good to get out of the house, i guess. Been announcement about pfizer come a couple of weeks earlier, which to be clear, doesnt appear the science would have allowed, im sure we would be talking about a different political landscape. Even with that bad timing. It is certainly an achievement for this administration to have been able to help accelerate some of these vaccines, like the vaccineng moderna into the final stages, and hopefully the level of emergency approval and access to the American Public by the end of the year. That remains a very big deal if it does go that way. Emily can you clarify for the record what pfizers involvement was in operation warp speed . They did not get money from the government, saying they misrepresented the involvement. What do we know to be the truth about that . Question, andeat its important we c
The next 100 days. Tom the transition challenges are simple. He needs a single letter out of gsa and that has not happened yet. We will do with Greg Valliere a on this in a moment. There are still four states with under a 1 count, and that is really what matters around all the hoopla. Francine it certainly does. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Biden is launching his transition effort while President Trump continues legal challenges over the election. The news media declared biden the winner of the president ial election on saturday. The former Vice President won or was leading in states that would give him more than 270 electoral votes needed for victory. Meanwhile, the president has falsely claimed victory whilst saying there was widespread in legal voting. He has not offered any evidence. President elect joe biden will take the first step to one of his Biggest Campaign promises today, to bring the Coronavirus Crisis under control
Save the lives of one of your childrens teachers, maybe it saves your life. Please, i implore you, wear a mask. Do it for yourself. Do it for your neighbor. A mask is not a political statement. It is a good way to start pulling the country together. I want to be very clear. The goal of mask wearing is not to make your life less comfortable. It is to take or take something away from you. It is to give Something Back to all of us. A normal life. The goal is to get back to normal as fast as possible. Masks are critical in doing that. It will not be forever. That is how we will get our nation back, back up to speed economically. We can go back to celebrating birthdays and holidays, so we can attend sporting events, so we can back to the live and connections we shared before the pandemic. It does not matter who you voted for. We are americans in our country is under threat. We are now called to do the same thing generations of proud americans have done when faced with crisis throughout our
The Washington Post. This is a half an hour. Robert welcome to Washington Post live. Im robert costa. Today, on our path forward series, which focuses on the pandemic, im pleased to welcome back dr. Anthony fauci. Dr. Fauci, as you all know, is leading the nations fight against the coronavirus. He is director of the National Institute of allergies and infectious diseases. He has advised president s for decades, including President Trump, and he has been praised by president elect biden. Dr. Fauci, welcome back. Fauci. Dr. Fauci thank you, bob. Its good to be with you. Robert we had questions for our audience members. We will get to them in a moment. Its thanksgiving week. Any lastminute messages for americans who are still undecided on traveling . Dr. Fauci yes, bob, thank you. Obviously each individual family has to make, as i have said over the past few days, a riskbenefit assessment about the risk you are willing to take in traveling and in congregating in the usual warm atmosphere