Fauci Predicts Americans Will Need To Remain At Home For ‘At Least’ Several Weeks

Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci listens during a briefing by the Coronavirus Task Force at the White House on March 9, 2020. (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), said on Friday morning that Americans shouldn’t expect their self-quarantines amid the COVID-19 outbreak to end anytime soon.

“If you look at the trajectory of the curves of outbreaks in other areas, it’s at least going to be several weeks,” Fauci told NBC “Today Show” host Savannah Guthrie.

“I cannot see that all of a sudden, next week or two weeks from now, it’s going to be over,” he continued. “I don’t think there’s a chance of that. I think it’s going to be several weeks.”

Largely populated areas such as New York City have already shut down bars, restaurants and other establishments that hold large numbers of people during the rapid spread of the coronavirus. On Thursday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed an executive order requiring state residents to stay home unless they need to procure food and medical necessities.

Watch Fauci below:

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  1. April 20th, the putative date for schools to reopen in NYC, is a long shot. I can’t imagine the city will be in any shape by then.

  2. “A few weeks” is extremely optimistic.

  3. While I don’t want to say that these past four years have been surreal and things can’t get eversomuchmoreso, because every time I do, they do,…

    …as Katherine Hepburn famously said, “Nevertheless!

  4. Fuck this guy. If this dude had been sounding the alarm on TESTING instead of downplaying it, we’d be on a much better trajectory.

  5. Now if only Donnie could keep his mouth shut for “at least” several months.

    Same for Tweets.

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