Dr. Anthony Fauci returns to Capitol Hill on Friday to testify before a special House panel investigating the coronavirus pandemic.
His testimony comes at a time when early progress on combating the virus seems to have been lost and uncertainty clouds the nation's path forward.
Fauci's public message in recent days has been that Americans can't afford a devil-may-care attitude toward COVID-19, and individuals need to double down on basic measures such as wearing masks in public, keeping their distance from others, and avoiding crowds and indoor spaces such as bars. That's echoed by Redfield and Giroir, though they are far less prominent.
"There are certain fundamentals," he said, "the staples of what you need to do ... one is universal wearing of masks." Other countries that shut down their economies knocked back uncontrolled spread and settled into a pattern of relatively few new cases, although they continued to experience local outbreaks.
Fauci said there's evidence the surge across the South may be peaking, but upticks in the Midwest are now a concern.
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