Anthony Fauci, the top-ranking infectious-disease doctor from the National Institutes of Health, said the U.S. is now recording about 40,000 new cases a day of the new coronavirus, and that “it could go up to 100,000 a day” if people continue to flout advice on social distancing and face masks.
“It could get very bad,” Dr. Fauci told a Senate committee Tuesday. “This idea of pushing back against scientific data is problematical. And congregating in bars, indoors, is bad news.”
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