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Dr. Anthony Fauci says his adult daughters will not be visiting him and his wife for Thanksgiving because they’re afraid of spreading the coronavirus to their parents. Fauci is director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases


Fauci has three daughters who live in three different parts of the country and who they don’t see very often, he said during a webinar hosted by American University's Kennedy Political Union.

"We would love for them to come home for Thanksgiving,” said Fauci. But the daughters, aged 28 to 34, live in cities that don’t have low infection rates and they worry that traveling and visiting would endanger their parents’ health, he said.

"Dad, you know you're a young, vigorous guy," Fauci said his daughters told him. "But you're 79 years old."

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