The United States has performed nearly 3 million tests. There are over 582,000 confirmed cases in the country and over 23,600 deaths.
Anthony Fauci speaks as President Donald Trump listens during the daily briefing of the White House Coronavirus Task Force at the White House April 13. On Monday, President Trump tweeted that he will be the one to make the decision to reopen the states in conjunction with the governors and input from others.Members of the Coronavirus Task Force will be updating the nation on the latest developments regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Monday there are places in the country that are beginning to see a flattening of the curve as we move into a second week in which deaths are projected to continue to be high.State of the Union"It's very difficult to go back and say that. I mean, obviously, you could logically say that if you had a process that was ongoing and you started mitigation earlier, you could have saved lives.
"The very first and only time that [Dr. Deborah Birx] and I went in and formally made a recommendation to the president…to really have strong mitigation, we discussed it. Obviously, there would be concern by some that in fact that might have some negative consequence. Nonetheless, the president listened to the recommendation," Fauci said.
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