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White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said he is not pleased with the current state of the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States. U.S. public health officials are beginning to see a “disturbing” uptick in the rate of coronavirus tests that come back positive in some regions of the nation, Fauci said during a National Geographic panel moderated by ABC News Correspondent Deborah Roberts, which aired on Thursday. “Bottom line is, I’m not pleased with how things are going.” “We certainly are not where I hope we would be, we are in the middle of very serious historic pandemic,”...

Dr. Anthony Fauci said Friday state and local government leaders should be "as forceful as possible" in urging the wearing of face masks to prevent the spread of the deadly coronavirus, which the top infectious disease expert says is still in the first wave in the United States and has hit Americans "very severely." Fauci said the United States needs "to get better control" over COVID-19 and masks must be a priority as the country opens up. "I would urge the leaders -- the local, political and other leaders -- in states and cities and towns to be as forceful...