Like the rest of us, Anthony Fauci is far from perfect(远非完美). His influential(有影响力的) guidance, as the country’s top infectious-disease specialist during the height(顶峰，高潮) of the Covid-19 pandemic, certainly didn’t get everything right.
和我们其他人一样，安东尼·福奇远非完美。作为新冠疫情期间美国顶尖的传染病专家，他颇具影响力的指导当然并非全都正确。
A great deal about the deadly disease – where it came from, how it spread, how best to protect the public – was unknown, or was being learned midstream(中途，进行中), during a crisis.
关于这种致命疾病，很多情况——它从何而来、如何传播、如何最好地保护公众——在当时都是未知的，或者是在危机中边做边学的。
Decisions needed to be made in real time(实时地), and those decisions had major consequence(后果)s.
决策需要实时做出，而这些决策产生了重大后果。