The Only Way to Stop Infections Is to Shut Down

Fauci: The only way to do that is by draconian means of essentially shutting down a country. If I knew at the time that shutting down would have such a dramatic effect on controlling the spread, obviously we would have shut down earlier. We know that we can do that if we shut down. There were those who say you shut down, you destructive things by disrupting the economy. But I don't regret saying that the only way we could have really stopped the explosion of infection was by essentially, I want to say shutting down.