The current state of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. is “really not good,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s top infectious disease …
The current state of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U. S. is “really not good,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s top infectious disease expert, said Monday amid an alarming rise in new cases and hospitalizations.
His comments were in stark contrast with those of President Donald Trump, who has sought to play down the danger in states where governors and mayors are struggling to control outbreaks after reopening — outbreaks the president has called “embers.”
Fauci said the current state of the pandemic in the U. S. is worsening in part because, unlike Europe, states and cities in the U. S. moved to reopen before the country sufficiently lowered the number of cases.
Several states in the south and west have seen surges in the number of people testing positive in recent weeks.
The positivity rate in California has reached 6.8%, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday, and Arizona has reached 100,000 cases with concerns rising about a lack of available ICU beds in the state.
10 states hit a record high number of new COVID-19 cases over the weekend and 9 hit record numbers of current hospitalizations, according to state data compiled by The New York Times and The COVID Tracking Project.
“The current state is really not good, in the sense that, as you know, we had been in a situation we were averaging about 20,000 new cases, a day.
