Doctor Mike Is Interviewing Coronavirus Expert Dr. Anthony Fauci Live on YouTube

Philip Ellis

March 29, 2020 2:04 PM

Dr. Mikhail Varshavski, better known to his 5 million+ YouTube subscribers as Doctor Mike , has spent the last several weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic doing his best to quell the spread of medical misinformation and conspiracy theories online. He's been doing this by posting videos which dispel the fallacies and falsehoods being disseminated by non-experts, be they celebrities or ill-informed politicians, in a manner which is both educational and accessible for viewers.

Doctor Mike Interviews COVID Expert Anthony Fauci

And today, he will be sitting down with coronavirus expert Dr. Anthony Fauci from the Coronavirus Task Force and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to bust some more myths and serve up the most up-to-date, useful advice for people to follow while self-isolating.

It's bound to be an illuminating discussion; Fauci has, after all, been tasked with providing the public with hard facts rather than platitudes, a responsibility which has made him unpopular with those who would rather hear platitudes from the president. Doctor Mike is of a similar belief that it's important to acknowledge the uncomfortable truth that more often than not, there are no miracle cures, and that a lot of high-profile figures who profess to know everything, actually don't.

"I'm a big fan of the phrase 'I dont know,'" he recently told Men's Health . "It needs to be followed with 'We dont know, but heres what were doing to find out,' or 'Heres why we dont know,' and 'Heres why nobody would know.' Because what happens is if you just leave it, 'I dont know,' theres a knowledge vacuum. People jump in. Sometimes like the president. Sometimes like a conspiracy theorist. Theyll come in and theyll give their theory for whats going on without much scientific backing."

You can watch Doctor Mike's interview with Fauci at 10 a.m. Eastern Time.

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Philip Ellis