Dr. Anthony Fauci said coronavirus cases could grow to 100,000 a day in the U.S. if Americans don’t start following public health recommendations.
The nation’s leading infectious disease expert made the remark at a Senate hearing on reopening schools and workplaces.
Asked to forecast the outcome of recent surges in some states, Fauci said he can’t make an accurate prediction but believes it will be “very disturbing.”
“We are now having 40-plus-thousand new cases a day. I would not be surprised if we go up to to 100,000 a day if this does not turn around, and so I am very concerned,” said Fauci, infectious disease chief at the National Institutes of Health.
Fauci said areas seeing recent outbreaks are putting the entire nation at risk, including areas that have made progress in reducing COVID-19 cases. He cited recent video footage of people socializing in crowds, often without masks, and otherwise ignoring safety guidelines.
(AP)
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When Trump will fire this sleazy shmendrik?
“He cited recent video footage of people socializing in crowds, often without masks, and otherwise ignoring safety guidelines”
Dr Fauci, does this footage also include the mass protests due to the killing of a shvartze, or are the protests exempt ?.
Interesting that he made no mention of the rioting and looting thugs aka protesters. Does that mean that their lives actually don’t matter?
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What became of all the theories that the hot humid summer weather would destroy/disperse all the corona droplets?
BLM protesters who are not social-distancing or not wearing masks are putting themselves and the rest of at risk. That is a privilege reserved for the US president.
To 147: Consider the following dialogue:
Richard Blaine: I came to Casablanca for the waters.
Captain Louis Renault: But Casablanca is in the middle of the desert. There is no water here.
Richard Blaine: I was misinformed.