The top infectious disease expert and White House coronavirus task force member said the U.S. is the 'worst hit country in the world.'
Asked what he envisions for the future of the U.S. COVID-19 outbreak, Fauci told the Harvard session:"I don't talk about second surges because we're still in the first surge. It isn't as if we went way down.
"He said the economy must be reopened correctly or the country will see more surges—like those recently recorded in the Midwest and southern states."And n ow, if you look at the map, it's Montana, North and South Dakota, Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa. Those are the ones at are surging."described the current situation as"whack-a-mole," where one state improves and another worsens. And as the U.S. heads into the fall, there will likely been an uptick in COVID-19 cases as people tend to congregate indoors more, he said."I just think we need to hunker down and get through this fall and winter because it's not going to be easy." Similarly to previous interviews, he expressed hope that a vaccine will be able to tackle the pandemic, and will be available by early 2021."What I would like to see is keeping the lid on, keeping the baseline down until we get a vaccine," he said."I think that's going to be the thing that turns it around." Fauci also said the measures being taken to prevent the spread of the coronavirus could lead to a mild flu season, as seen in Australia which had its lightest season in living memory., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, listens during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing in Washington, DC, on June 30, 2020.
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