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Top US health official says the coronavirus is 10 times ‘more lethal’ than the seasonal flu
Published Wed, Mar 11 202010:47 AM EDTUpdated 19 min ago
Noah Higgins-Dunn
Berkeley Lovelace Jr.
Key Points
A top U.S. health official said the worst is yet to come with a new coronavirus outbreak that has already infected more than 1,000 people across the nation, prompting state officials from New York to Washington to close schools and even mobilize troops outside of Manhattan.
How much worse depends on two things, he said: containing the influx of infected people coming from other countries and containing local outbreaks within the U.S.
A top U.S. health official said the worst is yet to come with a new coronavirus outbreak that has already infected more than 1,000 people across the nation, prompting state officials from New York to Washington to close schools and even mobilize troops outside of Manhattan.
“I can say we will see more cases and things will get worse than they are right now,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told the House Oversight and Reform Committee at a hearing on the nation’s preparedness for the outbreak Wednesday.
Fauci said COVID-19 is at least 10 times “more lethal” than the seasonal flu, even if the mortality rate drops far below the World Health Organization’s current estimates of 3.4%.