Recent protests across the U. S. over the death of George Floyd could lead to new surges in coronavirus cases, Dr. Anthony Fauci warned Friday. «It is…
Recent protests across the U. S. over the death of George Floyd could lead to new surges in coronavirus cases, Dr. Anthony Fauci warned Friday.
«It is the perfect set-up for the spread of the virus in the sense of creating some blips which might turn into some surges,” the member of President Trump’s Coronavirus Task Force told radio station WTOP-FM in Washington, D. C.
His comments came as the U. S. edged closer to 2 million confirmed infections and 110,000 virus-related deaths, and the globe neared 7 million infections and 400,000 deaths since the pandemic began, according to Johns Hopkins University.
After months of confinement due to governors’ stay-at-home orders, thousands across the country have taken to the streets for more than a week to protest the police-custody death of Floyd – a black man who succumbed after a white officer kneeled on his neck for nearly nine minutes on May 25 in Minneapolis.
