“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,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci
Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of NIAID. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images In testimony to Congress Wednesday, the government’s top infectious disease expert told lawmakers that the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. is “going to get worse.”
Fauci’s comments stand in contrast to President Trump’s attempts to dismiss the seriousness of the coronavirus outbreak that has so far infected 1,026 Americans and left 31 dead. The seriousness of the coronavirus outbreak was underscored again Wednesday when the World Health Organization officially declared it a pandemic.
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