Fauci: It’s A ‘False Statement’ To Say COVID-19 Outbreak Is Under Control

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 04: Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases listens as U.S. President Donald Trump answers questions in the press briefing room with members of ... WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 04: Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases listens as U.S. President Donald Trump answers questions in the press briefing room with members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force on April 4, 2020 in Washington, DC. On Friday, the CDC issued a recommendation that all Americans should wear masks or cloth face coverings in public settings to slow the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19). (Photo by Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and White House coronavirus task force member, warned of a “bad week” ahead regarding the coronavirus outbreak during an interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday morning.

When asked about President Trump’s prediction that there will be “a lot of death” in the coming weeks, Fauci said “this is going to be a bad week.”

“Unfortunately, if you look at the projection of the curves, of the kinetics of the curves, we’re going to continue to see an escalation,” Fauci said.

However, Fauci hopes that within a week, or perhaps “a little bit more” than that, the curve of infections will start to flatten out and come down with continued mitigation efforts. Fauci also pointed out the need to be prepared for how “things are going to get bad” first and acknowledged that it will be “shocking to some.”

“It certainly is really disturbing to see that,” Fauci said. “But that’s what’s going to happen before it turns around. So we’ll just buckle down, continue to mitigate, continue to do the physical separation because we got to get through this week that’s coming up because it is going to be a bad week.”

After agreeing with CBS’ Margaret Brennan that mitigation is working, Fauci denied that the coronavirus outbreak is under control.

“I will not say we have it under control, Margaret,” Fauci said. “That would be a false statement. We are struggling to get it under control, and that’s the issue that’s at hand right now.”

Fauci then emphasized the importance in recognizing that the increase in new cases will eventually start to flatten out, but warned that we probably won’t see that end result “for days, if not weeks, down the pike.”

“As the cases go down, then you get less hospitalizations, less intensive care, and less death,” Fauci said. “So even though you’re getting improvement in that the number of new cases are starting to flatten, the deaths will lag by, you know, one or two weeks or more. So we need to be prepared that even though it’s clear that mitigation is working, we’re still going to see that tail-off of deaths.”

Watch Fauci’s remarks below:

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  1. He is saying it as it is. No sugar coating. Straightforward info is what we need. And then there is always the question, how on Earth has he still his job??

  2. Avatar for dont dont says:

    Honest talk. How does he keep his job?

    Gonna be joining a certain Crozier at the unemployment office soon.

  3. He’s rather like the captain of an aircraft carrier, his crew in distress with disease, notifying his superiors, and not being taken seriously by those who can help.

  4. How soon until the Covidiot “loses confidence” with Dr. Fauci and fires him?

    Does Faux have a replacement TeeVee doctor standing in the wings? Dr. Oz?

  5. 30,000+ new cases each day for the last few. No one would dare say it was under control. Oh, except for one.

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