Dr. Fauci says the US is 'struggling' to get the coronavirus outbreak under control and Americans should prepare for the upcoming week 'to be a bad week.'
outbreak under control and warned Americans to prepare for the upcoming week"to be a bad week."
"So on the one hand, things are going to get bad and we need to be prepared for that," Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said."It's going to be shocking to some. It's certainly is really disturbing to see that. But that's what's going to happen before it turns around.
"I will not say we have it under control, that would be a false statement," he added."We are struggling to get it under control. And that's the issue that's at hand right now. The thing that's important is that what you see is increases in new cases which then start to flatten out." Fauci said that the death toll will lag behind a curbing of confirmed cases anywhere from one to two weeks or possibly longer.
"But the end result of that you don't see for days or weeks down the pipe because, as the cases go down, then you get less hospitalizations, less intensive care, and less death," Fauci said."So even though you're getting really an improvement in that the number of new cases are starting to flatten, the deaths will lag by one or two weeks or more.
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