周四，马修·麦康纳在Instagram上采访了安东尼·福西博士40分钟，这位快嘴的奥斯卡获奖演员有机会就传染病问题对全国顶尖专家进行了质询新冠肺炎。
麦康纳迅速向这位79岁的医生提出了各种各样的问题，从人们应该有多担心接触门把手会感染病毒(Fauci说，与其说是和感染者分享近距离的物理空间，不如说是)到Advil是否会使症状恶化(事实并非如此)。
"好吧，对与错:阳光杀死病毒?"麦康纳问道。
“是的，”福西回答，支持一个理论由总统推动唐纳德·特朗普。“这是事实。”
让每个人都被感染，这样我们都变得有免疫力，疾病就会消失，怎么样?
“不可能，”福西说。这将导致大问题，特别是在美国，在那里肥胖很普遍，糖尿病和高血压等相关疾病被认为是一个人患病的危险因素。
“如果每个人都感染了...许多人将会死去。”
2020年7月31日，华盛顿特区，美国国家过敏和传染病研究所所长安东尼·福西在众议院冠状病毒危机听证会上摘下了华盛顿国民防护面具池
福奇补充说:“死亡人数将是巨大的，完全不能接受。”“这就是我们反对说‘让它飞吧’的原因。让每个人都受到感染，我们会没事的。这不是个好主意。"
福西还表示，美国人需要在今年夏天参加派对和秋季开学之间做出选择:“你是想开酒吧，还是想开学校?”
麦康纳还问福西，他是否在疫苗上投资了数百万美元。
福西笑了。“马修，不，我得了零分!我是政府工作人员。我有政府的薪水。”
麦康纳以其悠闲的风格而闻名，经常被拍到赤膊上阵，相反，他穿着一件白色领的礼服衬衫，戴着眼镜接受采访。他在某些问题上变得很有哲理性，表达了他个人的失望，以及他所说的对国家应对流感大流行的愤怒。
马修·麦康纳出席了2017年7月31日在纽约举行的档案首映式。|安东尼·福西博士参加了2018年10月24日在纽约举行的晚会。
麦康纳说:“和很多人一样，我对COVID被政治化感到非常失望——实际上非常愤怒。”
他补充说，人们“在一个未知的大时代寻找身份和目的。”而且，很多人对我们的领导不再抱有幻想。”“但也有如此多的人狂热地[依附]在左派和右派的边缘，这导致了进一步的分裂和缺乏团结。”
在他们的讨论结束时，麦康纳似乎对福西提出的国家可以再次团结起来的建议感到振奋，因为它在二战和911之后就已经这样做了。
“这相当于那个，马修。福西说:“我们必须齐心协力，绝对地。”
“就是这样。...我们以后可以有我们的自由和我们的党。现在，让我们齐心协力，”麦康纳说。
Matthew McConaughey grills Dr. Anthony Fauci in Instagram interview on COVID-19
Matthew McConaughey interviewed Dr. Anthony Fauci for 40 minutes on Instagram Thursday with the fast-talking, Oscar-winning actor getting a chance to grill the nation's top infectious disease expert onCOVID-19.
McConaughey rapidly fired questions at the 79-year-old doctor on everything from how concerned people should be about getting the virus from touching a door knob (not as much as sharing close physical space with someone who is infected, Fauci says) to whether Advil makes symptoms worse (it doesn't).
"OK, true-false: Sunlight kills the virus?" McConaughey asked.
"It does," Fauci replied, supporting atheorypushed by PresidentDonald Trump. "That's the truth."
What about letting everyone get infected so we all become immune and the disease dies out?
No way, Fauci said. That would cause big problems, particularly in America, where obesity is prevalent and related conditions like diabetes and hypertension are considered risk factors in how sick a person gets.
"If everyone contracted it ... a lot of people are going to die," Fauci said.
"The death toll would be enormous and totally unacceptable," Fauci added. "And that's the reason why we're against saying, 'Let it fly. Let everybody get infected and we'll be fine.' That's a bad idea."
Fauci also said Americans need to choose between getting to party this summer and opening schools in the fall: "You want to open the bars or you want to open the schools?"
McConaughey also asked Fauci if he had millions of dollars invested in a vaccine.
Fauci laughed. "Matthew, no. I got zero! I'm a government worker. I have a government salary."
McConaughey, known for his laid-back style and often photographed shirtless, instead wore a white-collared dress shirt and glasses for the interview. He turned philosophical at points, expressing his own personal disappointment and what he said was rage with the nation's response to the pandemic.
"Like a lot of people, I've been more than disillusioned -- actually quite full of rage -- at how COVID has been politicized," including masks, McConaughey said.
People, he added, are "looking for identity and purpose in a big time of unknown. And man, so many people have become disillusioned with our leadership," he said. "But also so many people have fervently [clung] to the fringes of the right and left, which causes further divide a lack of unity."
By the end of their discussion, McConaughey seemed heartened by Fauci's suggestion that the nation could pull together again, because it's done it in the past after World War II and 9/11.
"This is equivalent to that, Matthew. We've got to pull together, absolutely," Fauci said.
"That's it. ... We can have our freedom and our party later. Right now, let's pull together," McConaughey said.
