On NBC’s ‘Today,’ Dr. Fauci Says Covid-19 Trend ‘As Bad As I Feared’

In an interview Friday morning on NBC’s Today, Dr. Anthony Fauci said the record-breaking numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths across the country are “at least as bad as I had feared…we’re in a very precarious situation right now. There is light at the end of the tunnel with a vaccine, but we’re not there yet.”

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Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told NBC’s Savannah Guthrie the stark rise in cases and deaths do not reflect the full impact of Thanksgiving travel and gatherings. “We have not seen the post-Thanksgiving peak,” he said. “It’s likely we’ll see more of a surge as we get two to three weeks past the Thanksgiving holiday… the thing that concerns me is that abuts right on the Christmas holiday as people start to travel and shop and congregate.”

Asked if he believed the U.S. death toll could reach—as some have predicted—over 400,000, Dr. Fauci said “I hope that’s not going to happen. And that’s the reason why all of us are out here telling people, literally pleading with them about the fact that we can do something about that. It shouldn’t be despair where you throw your hands up and say ‘it’s inevitable, it’s going to happen.’ If you do the fundamental things—public health measures—you can blunt it.”

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