Fauci says people should 'just forget about shaking hands' even after the coronavirus threat is over
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The leading coronavirus expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Tuesday that the traditional greeting of shaking hands might need to end even after the coronavirus pandemic was under control."As a society, just forget about shaking hands," Fauci said. "We don't need to shake hands. We've got to break that custom."With the outbreak of coronavirus, the CDC has advised Americans to avoid shaking hands and to bump elbows instead.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who is a leading member of the White House's coronavirus task force, says the tradition of shaking hands may need to come to an end even after the coronavirus pandemic is under control. Fauci spoke with Scott Thuman, Sinclair Broadcast Group's chief political correspondent, on Tuesday and said the greeting might be outdated in a post-COVID-19 world. "As a society, just forget about shaking hands," Fauci said. "We don't need to shake hands. We've got to break that custom.""Because as a matter of fact, that is one of the major ways you can transmit a respiratory-borne illness," he added. Fauci also told Thuman that the social implications of the coronavirus outbreak might linger within society long after the virus passes.
"I think what we're going to have embedded and imprinted in us forever is the realization that something as catastrophic as what the world is experiencing now can happen," he said. The 79-year-old has become one of the most public-facing members of ... (Read more)
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