Meanwhile, the White House press secretary insisted the U.S. is “at a place where we can handle the cases that we’re seeing.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, admonished Americans who have abandoned practicing personal mitigation measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus — asserting that such an “all or none” approach has contributed to a surge of new Covid-19 cases across the country.
Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, did indeed extol the importance of everyday preventative steps Americans could take to thwart Covid-19 in the early weeks and months of the pandemic, preaching frequent hand-washing and other efforts at once-daily White House coronavirus task force briefings.
Story continuesAzar declined, however, to endorse a potential federal order mandating the wearing of masks in public. Although former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has endorsed the proposal, administration officials have instead pointed Americans to directives on face coverings issued by cities and states.
McEnany also argued the U.S. has “entered a different phase of this disease” and is now “catching people in the community, not in the hospitals at late stages” of sickness. “We’re at a place where we can handle the cases that we’re seeing,” she said.
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