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"You are the one man who is not allowed to fall apart right now", an excitable Julia Roberts told Dr Anthony Fauci, the top US infectious disease expert and a familiar face at President Donald Trump's regular briefings.to amplify the voices of medics and experts.The doctor has become a minor celebrity in the US and was played by Brad Pitt on a Saturday Night Live sketch in April.
Fauci explained that last month he had been sleeping just three hours a night and was on the verge of"falling apart". He said that physical separation had worked to an extent in addressing the US outbreak, which is the largest in the world.He also said the US had a"moral responsibility" and a public health reason to include developing countries in vaccine trials to ensure they also worked globally.
And Fauci also said he might"plagiarise" Roberts when she suggested we need to accept"in a positive way" that normal will never return.
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