Here’s why Dr. Fauci keeps warning people about large gatherings

[Andy Meek]

• The latest coronavirus updates from public health experts like White House health advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci have been consistently warning people about the dangers of gathering with other people.
• A perfect example of why experts like Dr. Fauci are so worried about such gatherings is a biotech conference that happened in Boston back in February -- before the coronavirus was a widely understood phenomenon in the US.
• New research shows that the conference inadvertently became a super-spreader event, with a couple of coronavirus cases there ultimately being responsible for creating some 333,000 cases around the world.

In one coronavirus update after another for much of this week, public health experts like White House health advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci have hammered home one mantra in particular, though there are several themes that he and others keep returning to as they deliver much-needed information and suggestions to the public.

Over and over, though, experts like Fauci have stressed one point relentlessly -- that gatherings of almost any kind and size that consist of people from outside of your home, whose health you can't vouch for, are to be avoided at all costs. Not only are they convenient vectors for spreading the coronavirus, White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx recently went on the record to say this is actually how most people are going to contract the virus at this stage of the pandemic. But even more than that, the danger is particularly acute, in that gatherings can easily turn into deadly so-called "super-spreader" events, with far-reaching consequences.

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