Baltimore Sun Dr. Anthony Fauci is urging at-risk people to continue wearing masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Speaking to MedPage Today, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases explained he became infected with the disease for the third time in July. The illness, he said, came despite being vaccinated and boosted six times.
“I got infected about two weeks ago. It was my third infection, and I had been vaccinated and boosted a total of six times,” Fauci said. “It was a very, very mild infection. I’m 83 years old. I would think that if I were naïve immunologically, this thing could have killed me. But it didn’t even make me significantly ill. A little sniffles, a little sinusitis, and a fever, and then it was over.”
He went on to advise those in “a risk category” to continue to take the disease seriously.