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Fauci predicts 100,000 new COVID-19 cases per day if US can't control outbreaks
The Hill ^ | 6/30/20 | Jessie Hellman

Posted on 06/30/2020 11:35:11 AM PDT by Nero Germanicus

Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, warned members of Congress on Monday that the U.S. could reach 100,000 new COVID-19 cases per day if the country does not get a handle on the pandemic.

Speaking before the Senate health committee, Fauci said the country is heading in the “wrong direction as the average number of daily cases continues to go up.

“We’re going in the wrong direction if you look at the curves of the new cases,” said Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. “We need to do something about that and we need to do it very quickly.”

The U.S. is now recording 40,000 new cases per day, surpassing previous records set in April when New York was the epicenter of the outbreak.

Now outbreaks in Texas, Arizona, Florida and California account for 50 percent of new infections in the U.S.

Fauci stressed that the U.S. can’t just focus on those four states because outbreaks there "puts the entire country at risk."

Fauci declined to estimate potential COVID-19 deaths when pressed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), but said the situation is “going to be very disturbing, I will guarantee you that because when you have an outbreak in one part of the country, even though in other parts of the country they're doing well, they are vulnerable.”

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ccplague; chinavirus; fauci
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To: ronnie raygun

Fauci was in a hearing today where Rand Paul ripped him a new one for over six minutes about how other countries have reopened schools safely and there is no reason he should keep pouring cold water on the idea. Also took a shot at him for trying to tell the NFL they could not play.

Ever the weasel, Fauci equivocated, backtracked, claimed he actually agreed with Rand and had been taken out of context.

And then he throws out the 100,000 mega scare number. He can not be trusted and Trump needs to kick his ass to the curb yesterday.


121 posted on 06/30/2020 12:58:45 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: perfect_rovian_storm

My name is not Karen.

You seriously think washing your hands and not touching your face won’t help nevermind the other recommendations, even approved by the Task Force set up by POTUS himself? Yikes.

We are just going to have agree to disagree.


122 posted on 06/30/2020 1:00:21 PM PDT by hawkaw
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To: Nero Germanicus
Faucist panicked that he sees the country's economy recovering.

(Sentiment stolen and slightly modified from FR's Cold Heart)

123 posted on 06/30/2020 1:00:48 PM PDT by Texas Eagle
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To: ifinnegan

Is there a large population of overweight minorities with diabetes in Miami, it would be very interesting to KNOW how much of the populations are overweight with diabetes and pre diabetes THIS has been a HUGE factor in this virus!!


124 posted on 06/30/2020 1:02:31 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I don’t need your help and didn’t ask for it.

People who are trying to get back to work need the help and following these simple steps will help us open up, get more people back to work and not shut us back down.


125 posted on 06/30/2020 1:03:40 PM PDT by hawkaw
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To: hawkaw

Oh please, Karen. Of course washing your hands and not touching your face works. Nobody is advocating against cleanliness. People are resisting the ridiculous notion that masks should be forced or that people should be shamed into wearing them to please a bunch of whiny Karens.


126 posted on 06/30/2020 1:04:47 PM PDT by perfect_rovian_storm
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To: Nero Germanicus

Right....which means 200,000 tests per day.


127 posted on 06/30/2020 1:04:51 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: laplata; null and void; aragorn; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; Black Agnes; blueyon; ...
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Fauci is Deep State and they’re doing all they can to slow down re-opening and recovery. - It’s all to hurt Trump.

128 posted on 06/30/2020 1:06:03 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: Nero Germanicus

Who the F is this guy anyways?

Apparently the President can’t fire him without the press going absolute APESHIT.

November can’t get here soon enough..


129 posted on 06/30/2020 1:07:57 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: shelterguy

....and aren’t the number of cases among the healthy people supposed to happen? Isn’t that herd immunity?


130 posted on 06/30/2020 1:09:41 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: hawkaw

This is about public health, in my mind, and not politics.


Absolutely. When I want public “health advice” the first place I go is Pelosi and McConnell. Don’t be duped. The Mask Mafia do not have our best interest at heart.


131 posted on 06/30/2020 1:12:05 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Fauci was in a hearing today where Rand Paul ripped him a new one for over six minutes about how other countries have reopened schools safely and there is no reason he should keep pouring cold water on the idea. Also took a shot at him for trying to tell the NFL they could not play.

Ever the weasel, Fauci equivocated, backtracked, claimed he actually agreed with Rand and had been taken out of context.

And then he throws out the 100,000 mega scare number. He can not be trusted and Trump needs to kick his ass to the curb yesterday.


Yes and in the run up to this hearing “weasel” Lamar Alexander was busy undermining POTUS and demanding he wear a mask.


132 posted on 06/30/2020 1:13:32 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: Nero Germanicus

Lying little drama queen... Look a me. I am important.


133 posted on 06/30/2020 1:14:17 PM PDT by DOC44
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To: lodi90

That, too. They’re going all out.


134 posted on 06/30/2020 1:15:05 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: jeffc
And, of course, the new CDC definition is helping that "boost": if one person tests positive, the 15 people closest to him will be considered "infected" too.

That's not true.

135 posted on 06/30/2020 1:16:26 PM PDT by semimojo
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To: ifinnegan
And, yesterday what state still had the most deaths? New York."

California, actually. New York was 9th.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

A today isn't looking good for them making a comeback either:

Maybe Cuomo finally stopped tossing sick people into nursing homes.

136 posted on 06/30/2020 1:21:22 PM PDT by 2aProtectsTheRest
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To: Linda Tripp

3,300 days.


137 posted on 06/30/2020 1:21:33 PM PDT by HIDEK6 ( God bless Donald Trump.)
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To: foldspace
“If man is to live on earth, it is right for him to use his mind, it is right to act on his own free judgment, it is right to work for his values and to keep the product of his work. If life on earth is his purpose, he has a right to live as a rational being: nature forbids him the irrational. Any group, any gang, any nation that attempts to negate man's rights, is wrong, which means: is evil, which means: is anti-life. - Atlas Shrugged
138 posted on 06/30/2020 1:22:03 PM PDT by conservativeimage (When you realize world leaders are continuing Charles Mansons HELTER SKELTER)
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To: hawkaw

You only need to say it once.


139 posted on 06/30/2020 1:22:26 PM PDT by HIDEK6 ( God bless Donald Trump.)
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To: ifinnegan

Miami had higher numbers of deaths than elsewhere in FL, but Miami has a higher number of old people...from New York City.

As for “cases,” I thought the whole thing was to hope that a lot of people got it, had a mild or even unnoticed case, and then were immune. So they did...and a lot of these are not people who have “cases,” in the sense of hacking, gasping, dying on the streets (media version) but actually are just people testing positive for having had it sometime in the last few months. And they’re over it. Non-communicable. Safe. It’s all good.

Florida has done well.


140 posted on 06/30/2020 1:23:01 PM PDT by livius
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