Anthony Fauci has now become a regular at recent White House press briefings on the coronavirus pandemic. He has become the voice of reason and scientific facts about how to respond to the new coronavirus. Now, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. He usually flanks President Donald Trump addressing the media—and when he isn’t there, concerned tweets begin to flood the internet immediately. 

On Thursday, Stephen Curry, NBA player, hosted coronavirus expert Dr. Anthony Fauci for a 30-minute conversation — a talk that reached 50,000 people when it aired. 

“We’ve got to make that point,” Dr. Fauci said to Curry. “This is serious business.”

Curry started the session by asking Dr. Fauci how COVID-19 is different from the flu — a comparison made by people who try to undermine the seriousness of coronavirus.

“The reason it’s different is that it’s very, very much more transmissible than the flu and, more importantly, it’s significantly more serious,” Fauci said.

Curry wanted to know when normalcy will return in the United States.

“What you need to see is the trajectory of the curve start to come down,” Fauci said. “… We can start thinking about getting back to some degree of normality when the country as a whole has turned that corner and started coming down. Then you can pinpoint cases much more easily instead of getting overwhelmed by cases, which is happening in New York City.” 

Curry also asked Dr. Fauci about the availability of tests, which he said is improving. He asked Dr. Fauci about the fate of people who have recovered from the virus, and whether they can get it a second time. 

The doctor admitted that the  testing for that that hasn’t been done specifically, Fauci said, “but if this acts like every virus similar to it that we know, the chances are overwhelming that if you get infected, recover from infection, that you are not going to get infected with the same virus.”