On 15 August, Fauci responded to the question put to him by Dr. Teena Chopra, Wayne State University's Dean of Coaching and Professional Development: "Lockdowns have to have an end game. You have a reason to lockdown, for example, in New York City, when Elmhurst Hospital was overrun and they were having cooler trucks outside, because they had no places to put the bodies, you had to have something to immediately shut down the tsunami of infection. That lockdown was absolutely justified. "Lockdown has a purpose. One of the purposes, if you do not have a vaccine, it is to get more ventilators, get the hospitals better prepared, get more people involved in the healthcare sector to do it until you decompress the pressure on the hospitals, then you can open up. "If you have a vaccine available, you might want to lockdown temporarily so you can get everybody vaccinated. "So, lockdowns with a purpose work. It saves lives." According to Wikipedia, starting on 16 Marc