For any copyright, please send me a message. Dr Anthony Fauci warned that Americans should not 'trivialize COVID-19' after President Donald Trump left the Walter Reed medical center on Monday just days after testing positive for the virus. Trump arrived at the White House on Monday in a made-for-television spectacle in which he descended from his Marine One helicopter wearing a white surgical mask only to remove it as he posed, saluting and waving, on the mansion's South Portico.'Don't let it dominate you. Don't be afraid of it,' Trump said in a video after his return from the Walter Reed Medical Center military hospital outside Washington where he was treated for the disease caused by the coronavirus.'I'm better, and maybe I'm immune - I don't know,' he added, flanked by American flags and with the Washington Monument in the background. 'Get out there. Be careful.'During Trump's White House arrival, Fauci was in the middle of a segment for this year's virtual New Yorker Festival. New Yorker writer, Michael Specter, asked the nation's top infectious disease expert about Trump's tweet earlier on Monday, in which the president said he was 'feeling really good!' The president then wrote: 'Don't be afraid of Covid. ... I feel better than I did 20 years ago!' Fauci responded to the question by saying that 40-45 per cent of people 'can be without symptoms'.'And then for those who have symptoms, the overwhelming majority are mild. But there are a group of individuals who fall into a certain subset or category, mainly the elderly and those with underlying conditions at any age, who can have a severe outcome. 'And we know that severe outcome could be anything from just feeling really, really sick to requiring hospitalization, requiring intensive care, possibly ventilation and even death,' Fauci told the New Yorker. During his explanation, Fauci pointed to the more than 210,000 people who have lost their lives to the virus in the US along with the 7 million who have been affected, as reasons to remain vigilant when dealing with this virus.'I think anybody who is looking at this realistically has to say this is a very serious situation. Even though it's confused by the fact that such a substantial portion of people generally do quite well. But it is a very serious disease that we need to reckon with.' Specter then asked Fauci about Trump's messaging and how it should be perceived. 'Obviously, the message should be that we should try as best as we can to avoid infection. No matter who you are, how old you are, or what your underlying condition is, we should not trivialize it,' Fauci said. Trump, who was treated by an army of doctors and received experimental treatment, has repeatedly played down the disease that has kill