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Fauci: 'Really bad if US cases don't drop below 10,000 cases daily

Anthony Fauci the country’s top infectious disease expert, warned that the US 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. The Hill reports that Fauci, the director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said during a livestreamed 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 more easily.

"If we don't get them down, then we're going to have a really bad situation in the fall," Fauci is quoted in the report as saying. Fauci said the coronavirus follows a “real and potential pattern” as demonstrated in Southern and Western states weeks ago. He said the percentage of positive tests rises first and then the number of cases.

"You may need to pause. You may need to drop back a little bit," he advised states experiencing the spikes, so the US can reduce the number of cases. "I don't think you necessarily have to revert to going all the way back to closing."

Fauci said states such as Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio and Minnesota are starting to see surges in the percentage of positive tests.

 

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