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.