Fauci warns of 'really bad situation' if daily coronavirus cases don't drop to 10K by September
By Justine Coleman - 08/03/20 07:07 PM EDT
Anthony Fauci, the country’s top infectious disease expert, warned on Monday that the U.S. could be in a “really bad situation†if the number of new coronavirus cases confirmed daily does not drop to 10,000 by next month.
Fauci, the director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said during a livestream interview with the Journal of the American Medical Association that he is basing that number on the expected emergence of the flu in the fall, as well as the return of colder weather, which will likely drive more people indoors, where health experts say COVID-19 spreads easier.
"If we don't get them down, then we're going to have a really bad situation in the fall," Fauci said, according to NBC News.
Currently, the U.S. is seeing between 50,000 and 70,000 new COVID-19 cases identified per day, with a seven-day average of 61,815, according to New York Times data.
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