'It's Going to Get Worse': Federal Disease Expert Warns Congress About Coronavirus

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, offered a clear-eyed assessment of the COVID-19 threat while testifying on Wednesday

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies before a House Oversight Committee hearing on preparedness for and response to the coronavirus outbreak on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on March 11th, 2020.will “go away,” the government’s top expert on infectious diseases warned lawmakers on Wednesday that not only is the virus not going away anytime soon, the worst is yet to come.

“I can say that we will see more cases and things will get worse than they are right now,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, who directs the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told Congress. “How much worse it will get will depend on our ability to do two things: to contain the influx of people who are infected coming from the outside, and the ability to contain and mitigate within our own country. But the bottom line is that it’s going to get worse.”Dr.

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