(The Washington Times) The government’s disease fighters told Americans on Tuesday to wear masks and take “personal responsibility” for stamping out the pandemic, warning the nation is heading in the wrong direction as hospitalizations rise in a dozen states and Arizona sees more deaths per day.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, who leads infectious disease research at the National Institutes of Health, warned that the country could have an eye-popping 100,000 new cases per day if Americans keep flouting social distancing rules.
“We’re now having 40-plus thousand new cases a day,” Dr. Fauci told the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. “I would not be surprised if we go up to 100,000 a day if this does not turn around. So I am very concerned.”