The variability and “striking” transmissibility of Covid-19 makes the virus the “perfect storm,” said director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci.

“Not to be hyperbolic about it — it really is the perfect storm and [an] infectious disease and public health person’s worst nightmare. It’s a spectacularly transmissible virus. The efficiency with which this transmits is really striking,” he said at an event hosted by The Hill.

Fauci explained that the range of people it affects — from those with no symptoms to those who end up in intensive care or die — make the virus “a very complex situation to really get control of.”

“Now what we need to do in this country is to successfully make that transition from baseline control to safely be reopening the country, and following the guidelines are going to be critical,” Fauci said.

“And I think what we’ve seen unfortunately, is that in some of the Southern states, the states have not really followed those guidelines in some respects, and jumped over the benchmarks, and the points that needed to be checkpoints. We’ve got to do better.”

Source: Agenceis