Fauci Depressed About COVID-19 Cases, Says U.S. Is Still In The First Wave
Infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said Thursday that he felt “depressed” when looking at coronavirus data and warned that the United States’ first wave of infections never ended.
During a Harvard Medical School Grand Rounds talk, Fauci presented a slide comparing coronavirus cases in the United States to those in the European Union. Even during lockdown, he pointed out, the U.S. always had a high baseline of cases ― around 20,000 cases a day, compared to the EU’s baseline, which went below 10,000 cases a day.
The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases stressed that efforts to reopen the economy had caused surges in both regions, but that the U.S. was undoubtedly the “worst hit country in the world.” He called its inability to lower its baseline …continued .
[Source: Huffington Post]