“The European Union as an entity went up and then down to the baseline,” he continued. “Now they are having little problems, as expected, as they try to reopen. We went up, we never went down to the baseline, and now it is going back up. So it is a serious situation that we have to address immediately.”
Their comments come as coronavirus cases continue to rise in the U.S., with at least 32 states reporting higher rates of new cases this week compared to recent ones, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Almost 3 million Americans have been infected with the virus and more than 129,000 have died.
Fauci said Monday that “a series of circumstances associated with various states and cities trying to open up” too soon as a key factor in the rise of the virus, and stressed that the United States “should use the public health effort as a vehicle and a pathway. to reach a safe reopening. “
“Therefore, we must make sure we don’t create this kind of ‘it’s us against them’ binary type,” he said of the public health efforts and the United States economy.
“It is not. We are all together.”
“We now have more than 40,000 new cases a day. I would not be surprised if we increase to 100,000 a day if this does not change, so I am very concerned,” Fauci told the Senate of Health, Education, and Work. and the Pension Committee.
Specifically, he expressed dismay at people gathering in crowds and not wearing masks, and inadequate attention was paid to the guidelines for reopening.
“We are going to continue to have a lot of problems,” he said. “And there will be a lot of pain if that doesn’t stop.”
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