Dr Anthony Fauci told the Washington Post that the nation “is going to suffer a lot”.
Washington:
The United States must abruptly change its public health practices because it could exceed 100,000 new cases of coronavirus per day and increase the number of deaths in the weeks to come, the country’s leading infectious disease specialist has warned, within days of the presidential election.
Dr Anthony Fauci’s warning came as President Donald Trump, himself a COVID-19 survivor, downplayed the rise in cases in a number of states and dangerously organized huge rallies with few of his supporters wearing masks and no social distancing.
Fauci told the Washington Post that the nation “is going to suffer a lot.”
He spoke as the United States set a new daily record Friday with more than 98,000 new cases. As hospitalizations rise, deaths also rise, with more than 1,000 reported on Wednesday and Thursday, bringing the total to more than 230,000 since the start of the pandemic, according to the report.
“We are going to suffer a lot. This is not a good situation,” warned Fauci, 79, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
“All the stars are lined up in the wrong place as you move into the fall and winter season, with people gathering at home inside. You couldn’t be better positioned,” he said. he told the Post, before the presidential elections on November 3 where Trump, a Republican is arrested by former US Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic Party candidate.
Fauci, one of the main members of the government’s coronavirus response, said the United States must dramatically change public health practices and behaviors. He said the country could exceed 100,000 new cases of coronavirus per day and predicted an increase in deaths in the coming weeks.
According to the Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 tracker, the United States has reported more than 9,127,000 confirmed cases and more than 230,000 deaths.
Fauci’s blunt warning came as Trump rallied around cities with record increases in infections and hospitalizations in a last-ditch effort to convince voters that he has been successful in handling the pandemic. He organized maskless rallies with thousands of supporters, often in violation of local health mandates, the main newspaper said.
He said Biden’s campaign “takes it seriously from a public health perspective.” Trump, Fauci said, “looks at it from a different perspective.” He said that this prospect was “the economy and the reopening of the country”.
At a recent campaign rally, Trump said American doctors have more deaths from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, than other countries because they make more money.
“I mean our doctors are very smart people. So what they do is they say, ‘I’m sorry but everyone is dying from COVID’?” Trump said Friday at a rally in Waterford Township, Michigan, without offering any evidence.
Fauci, widely trusted by the public after a long career serving six presidents from both parties, praised White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, who told CNN last weekend that the administration Trump was not going to control the pandemic.
“I take my hat off to him for admitting the strategy,” Facui said. “He’s outspoken in telling you what he thinks. I congratulate him on that.”
In a statement, White House deputy press secretary Judd Deere sharply criticized Fauci, saying he was inappropriately engaging in politics days before election day.
“It is unacceptable and in violation of all standards for Dr. Fauci, a senior member of the President’s Coronavirus Task Force and someone who has praised President Trump’s actions throughout this pandemic, to choose three days before an election for politics, ”Deere said in the statement. .
“As a member of the Task Force, Dr Fauci has a duty to voice his concerns or push for a change in strategy, but he has not done so, choosing instead to criticize the chair in media and publicize his political leanings by praising opponents – exactly what Americans expect from The Swamp, ”added Deere.
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