Follow Dr. Fauci’s Tips on How To Avoid Coronavirus

10. Take your underlying health conditions seriously

If you have an underlying medical condition, Fauci has a message for you: take these things seriously and take extra precautions.

“This will be a recommendation,” Fauci said in an interview on Meet the Press. “If you’re a person with an underlying condition and you are particularly an elderly person with an underlying condition, you need to think twice about getting on a plane, on a long trip. And not only think twice. Just don’t get on a cruise ship.” Whether you have diabetes, hypertension, cancer, or some other co-morbidities, you should be prepared to exercise extreme caution until the pandemic is under control.

11. Expect progress to be gradual

Our impatience has been a major obstacle to the flattening of the coronavirus curve, but according to Fauci, it is important that we see improvement as something that is going to happen gradually — assuming that we take appropriate precautions.

“We’ve got to have a delicate balance of carefully and prudently heading towards normality,” Fauci said Friday, talking to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation in Washington. Previously, he warned that having unrealistic expectations might lead people to get discouraged, but throwing up our hands and wanting to stop the necessary safety measures is simply not acceptable.