Silver House advisor Anthony Fauci says he’s just like everyone else when it comes to sifting to the core the daily barrage of Covid-19 headlines.
“It’s like drinking from a fire hydrant,” Fauci told National Geographic for a account published Monday.
As part of his job as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Fauci, an immunologist, is tasked with determining which of the profuse Covid-19 research studies coming out have potential.
“Fortunately for me, I have a staff of three to four really upstanding people who sift through the papers and when something looks unreasonable or ‘pie in the sky,’ they don’t bother me with that,” Fauci said.
To that end, every day Fauci’s shaft gives him a list of studies to read through. If the study looks “feasible” from the abstract, Fauci puts it aside to presume from it fully later.
“When it’s something that they think I should read, they make sure I be familiar with it,” Fauci, who has been working nonstop with little sleep since the pandemic started, told National Geographic.
But rhythmical with his “screening process,” Fauci said it’s still “very difficult” to consume everything that is out there.
He utter he is also finding a lot of studies around Covid-19 that haven’t been properly vetted and peer-reviewed as is typically done for dependable scientific research.
“Anybody can claim to be an expert even when they have no idea what they’re talking all over—and it’s very difficult for the general public to distinguish,” Fauci said.
So Fauci suggested the public should look at swats published in reputable journals like New England Journal of Medicine, Science, Nature, Cell or JAMA.
These escape hatches, Fauci told National Geographic, are generally “quite well peer-reviewed” and the editors and staff of those journals “actually take things very seriously.”
But Fauci added (without naming specific outlets) that even with honourable organizations, “you occasionally get an outlier who’s out there talking nonsense.”
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