National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins on Sunday said he believes the United States could exceed 200,000 daily cases « in the next couple of weeks. »
Aug.15 (UPI) — The United States could soon see more than 200,000 new COVID-19 cases every day as the more contagious Delta variant continues to spread, the director of the National Institutes of Health said Sunday. NIH Director Dr. Francis Colllins told Fox News Sunday he will « be surprised if we don’t cross 200,000 cases a day in the next couple of weeks » as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 140,144 new cases and a seven-day moving average of 119,523 infections on Friday. The CDC reported 804 deaths and a 544 seven-day moving average Friday. The weekly average dropped to 182 on July 10. « That’s heartbreaking considering we never thought we would be back in that space again. That was January, February. That shouldn’t be August, » said Collins. « But here we are with Delta variant, which is so contagious and this heartbreaking situation where 90 million people are still unvaccinated who are sitting ducks for this virus and that’s the mess we’re in.
